On June 4, 1944, the last of German occupiers fled Rome ahead of the advancing U.S. 9th Army.
On this date in history:
In 1783, the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon occurred at Annonay, France.
In 1784, France's Marie Thible of Lyons became the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon.
In 1896, Henry Ford wheeled his first car from a brick shed in Detroit and drove it around darkened streets on a trial run.
In 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded.
On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki three days…
On Nov. 23, 1940, Romania signed the Tripartite Pact, joining the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II.
On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius…
On June 10, 1940, Norway surrendered to Germany during World War II, with King Haakon and members of the government fleeing to…
On Oct. 5, 2005, scientists announced that for the first time they were able to genetically sequence the strain of avian flu that…
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
