In 1861, Georgia voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy. In 1920, threats against the life of Attorney ...

May 1975 - Cambodia seizes the American ship Mayaguez. Ford sends in the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The ship is retaken and the crew of 39 is rescued, although 41 American service members are killed ...

Mitch McConnell, a lion of the Senate and one of its shrewdest legislative tacticians over four decades, announced that he ...