1994: Five-year-old Eric Morse was dropped from the 14th floor of the Ida B. Wells public housing complex by Jesse Rankins, ...

Today in Music History for Oct. 10: In 1813, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole. Among Verdi's major successes were "Rigoletto," produced in 1851, and "Il Trovatore" and "La ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, the preseason was shelved in 1998 as union bargaining between the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) and franchise owners on putting together a new ...

In 1710, Canada's first Anglican church service was held in Chebucto, N.S. In 1801, the Sable Island Humane Establishment was set up as a year-round lifeguard settlement on the sandbar off Nova Scotia ...