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The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 12, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 11, 1805April 13, 1805April 12, 1805 Friday April the 12th 1805. Set out at an early hour. our peroge and the Canoes passed over to the…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 17, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 16, 1805June 18, 1805June 17, 1805 Monday June 17th 1805. Capt. Clark set out early this morning with five men to examine the country and…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 18, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 17, 1805June 19, 1805June 18, 1805 Tuesday June 18th 1805. This morning I employed all hands in drawing the perogue on shore in a thick…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 27, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 26, 1806June 28, 1806June 27, 1806 Friday June 27th 1806. We collected our horses early and set out. the road still continued on the heights…

March 2009 Current Events: World News

U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of March, 2009. President of Guinea-Bissau Killed (March 2): President João Bernardo Vieira of the small…

John Allen Muhammad, 2003 News

sniper, was convicted and sentenced to death in November by a Virginia jury for killing 10 people in the 2002 Washington, DC, area shootings. He initially defended himself in the trial, but…

Giuseppe Zangara

Giuseppe Zangara tried to shoot Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on 15 February 1933 -- before Roosevelt even took office as president for the first time. A bricklayer, Zangara apparently was angry at…

Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan's most famous work is the novel Trout Fishing in America (1967), a back-to-nature favorite of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s. Raised in Washington, Brautigan moved to…

1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship

Held Nov. 10-27 in New Zealand for Under-17 national teams.First Round Round Robin; each team plays the other teams in its group once. Note that three points are awarded for a win and one…

Kip Kinkel, 1998 News

15-year-old Oregon high school student, added to an alarming string of school shootings when he opened fire at Thurston High School in May. Kinkel shot his parents to death in their home…