Todays History

The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.

North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.

Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.

Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civi

First run of the Orient Express.

George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.

Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States

Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.