September 12, 1940 Near Montignac, France, four teenagers discover a collection of prehistoric cave paintings when they stumble upon the ...

  At approximately 8:46 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning , an American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying about 10,000 gallons of jet ...

  September 10, 1608 English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia —the first permanent English settle...

 A JFK Moment is a historical moment you will NEVER Forget.  You remember everything - what you were wearing, doing, talking to, eating, and...

  September 8, 1974 In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for any...

  September 9, 1776 On September 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted a new name for what had been called the "United Colon...

  September 7, 1813 On September 7, 1813, according to the most cited—and Congressionally approved—account , the United States gets its nick...