Celebrating American Science: Four U.S. Stamps Honor Pioneering Nobel Laureates

Supreme Court's 1980 Ruling Paved Way for Patenting Genetically-Engineered Microorganisms

Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, is elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of party and head of state.

On June 16, 1965, on their second day of recording at Columbia Records’ Studio A in Manhattan, folk rock singer Bob Dylan, along with a band featuring electric guitars and an organ, laid down the master take of “Like A Rolling Stone.

On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space.

Rudolf Nureyev, the young star of the Soviet Union’s Kirov Opera Ballet Company, defects during a stopover in Paris.

Historic Gas Turbine-Electric Locomotive Debuts in Pennsylvania, Revolutionizing Rail Travel

Oona O’Neill, the daughter of the famed playwright Eugene O’Neill, is an 18-year-old freshly minted high-school graduate and fledgling actress when she marries 54-year-old Charles Chaplin, the internationally renowned actor, filmmaker and Hollywood legend, on June 16, 1943, in Santa Barbara, California.

Pioneering Helicopter Prototype Unveiled in 1922: A Leap in Aviation History

The Evolution of IBM: From Hollerith's Census Machine to 1911's CTR Merger