March 17 is officially observed as Evacuation Day in Boston, even though St. Patrick’s Day falls on the same date. Here's the ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...

Lithuanian land forces commander Brig. Gen. Arturas Radvilas, left, and 7th Army Training Command leader Brig. Gen. Steven ...

In July 1912, during the third Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, America's first female pilot, Harriet Quimby, was returning to Squantum Aviation Field from Boston Light when her monoplane suddenly tilted, ...

1609 – The Bermuda Islands became an English colony. 1664 – New Jersey became a British colony. King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James (The Duke of York). 1755 – In North ...

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot into a crowd of rowdy colonists in front of the Custom House on Boston’s King Street ... to him over the laws of the land. By firing military leaders ...

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, arrived Thursday in the U.S. after authorities lifted travel restrictions imposed as part of the ...

The Harvard-Boston Aero Meet featured daring stunts and ... the birdmen of Miller's title learned to bank right and left, fly in a circle and land without crashing. The year 1910 saw the first ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

The Tates — who are dual U.S.-British citizens — were arrested in ... The assets include six luxury vehicles, land and properties, and company shares. All previously frozen bank accounts ...