Dakota Qualls, Staff Writter
March 27, 2015
March 30, 1981
34 years ago today President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley Jr. He was able to walk into the hospital under his own power and even made jokes to his wife and the surgeons before the surg...
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
February 23, 2015
February 23, 1945
70 years ago today at the top of Mount Suribachi, United States Marines raised the American flag for what would be one of the most famous pictures ever taken. After inching their way up the beaches and defea...
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
February 12, 2015
February 13, 1861
154 years ago today the heroic act that would earn the first Medal of Honor took place. Colonel Bernard J.D. Irwin volunteered to rescue Second Lieutenant George N. Bascom and the 60 men trapped with him....
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
February 9, 2015
February 12, 1809
206 years ago today in a log cabin in Kentucky Abraham Lincoln was born. After many different jobs he finally made his way into politics and eventually became the President of the United States of America...
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
February 9, 2015
February 11, 1990
25 years ago today Nelson Mandela, Deputy National President of the African National Congress (ANC), was released after 27 years of imprisonment. Mandela was wrongfully imprisoned for his acts in the anti...
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
February 9, 2015
February 10, 1996
19 years ago today man went head to head with machine and lost. Gary Kasparov, the chess world champion, tested his wits against “Deep Blue”, a supercomputer capable of computing 200 million moves per se...
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
February 9, 2015
February 9, 1964
51 years ago today The Beatles made their American debut on the famous Ed Sullivan show. The Beatles took America by storm unleashing music so incredible and fantastic they had the whole country and eventu...
January 23, 2015
Dakota Qualls, Staff Writer
January 22, 2015
January 21, 1977
38 years ago today President Jimmy Carter officially pardon everyone who fled to escape the draft during the Vietnam war. Some of the men decided to stay where they had made their new lives but are now free t...
January 19, 2015
December 15, 2014
December 15, 2014