In 1768, Encyclopedia Britannica was first published. In 1817, Mississippi joined the United States as the 20th state. In ...
In 2013, Mary Barra became CEO of General Motors, the first woman to head a major automotive company. In 2021, an outbreak of ...
The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at Dec. 12, 1931: Attorney George Daugherty, better known as the comic ...
Two years later, PBS viewers saw a Masterpiece Theatre airing of the BBC miniseries I, Claudius — which featured, as the Times put it at the time, “several seduction scenes, instances of toplessness, ...