Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2026. There are 271 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King’s death triggered a ...

Today is Sunday, April 5, the 95th day of 2026. There are 270 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 5, 1933, as part of his New Deal programs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a Depression-era work relief ...

Today is Thursday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2026. There are 273 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Józef Wojtyła, died in his Vatican apartment at age 84. The first non-Italian pope in over 450 years, John Paul II became one ...

Today is Wednesday, April 1, the 91st day of 2026. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool’s Day. Today in history: On April 1, 1945, American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II. (U.S. forces succeeded in capturing the Japanese island on ...

Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2026. There are 275 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will ...

Today is Monday, March 30, the 89th day of 2026. There are 276 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by John Hinckley Jr. outside a Washington, D.C., hotel. Also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, ...