On Nov. 8, 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president, defeating Vice President Richard Nixon by a comfortable 303-219 Electoral College margin, but just 112,000 votes, or 0.2% of the popular ...

Mundus, an eccentric charter boat shark hunter since the 1950s, led a fishing trip that landed an estimated 4,550-pound great white off Long Island in 1964. Benchley read the news reports, and the big ...

Jon Van Wyk spent last weekend in the middle of a forest in northern Washington County — learning to make contour maps, observing items found on the forest floor and coming up with nature-based math ...

SC reaffirmed that disqualification of bids must strictly follow tender terms, holding that Mandi Parishad acted beyond its powers by rejecting a technical bid based on an unstated requirement for ...

ITAT Jaipur quashed an addition of Rs.14.47 lakh made under Section 69A because the assessment was framed by a Jaipur-based AO who lacked territorial jurisdiction over the assessee residing in Sri ...

Historians have said she did so to bear witness to what had happened and to convey both national mourning and continuity of government. The suit, still stained with blood, was transferred to the ...

There’s a 52-foot-tall man standing in Ironwood, Michigan, and he’s been there since 1964, never complaining about the weather, never asking for a chair, and never once requesting a bathroom break.

From Guccio Gucci to Tim Horton, meet the people who launched hugely successful businesses in their own names.

At the NFL season's halfway mark, there appears to be a paucity of pigskin dominance across a league where teams toggle ...

The Dodgers will look to become one of the rare teams in professional sports to win three consecutive championships. Here's how many have done it.