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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 ...

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

Asian Americans have drawn parallels between today’s attacks on Latinos and a historically exclusive immigration policy that ...

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

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

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

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta with neighborhood children in their new apartment at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave. in Chicago on Jan. 26, 1966. King and his family moved into the poor ...

1942: The Chicago Bears — who won the 1941 championship — defeated a team of NFL All-Stars 35-24 on a “dreary, chilly afternoon” at the Polo Grounds in New York City. It was the Bears’ 19th victory in ...

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 ...

Grebeck was signed on Aug. 13, 1986 as an undrafted free agent, and his 12-year career in the majors makes him one of the ...