2010 — Peyton Manning becomes the first player to win The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player honors four times. 2010 — ...

1986 Former two-time owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck died at the age of 71. Veeck owned the club from March 1959 through ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 4, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

Joe Louis knocks out Buddy Baer with four seconds left in the first round at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain the world heavyweight title. 1977 — Oakland wins their first ...

On January 7, 1942, the Supermarine Seafire flew for the first time, bringing the legendary Spitfire to aircraft carriers as ...

Today in Music History for Jan. 21: In 1891, Calixa Lavallee, the composer of ``O Canada,'' died from tubercular laryngitis at his home in Boston. He was 48. In 1902, ``The Ode to Newfoundland'' was ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1913, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Harold A. Content, acting for George Gordon Battle, counsel for ...

On January 3, 1944, Coast Guard pilot Frank Erickson flew straight into the teeth of a raging storm to deliver blood plasma ...

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 ...

Things don’t happen randomly. The shocking news of Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela broke on the 101stanniversary of Benito ...

Holloway High in Murfreesboro has been around nearly 100 years, truly watching the world change. The principal has just ...