Today is Friday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2026. There are 321 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 13, 1945, Allied forces in World War II began a three-day bombing raid on Dresden, Germany, killing as many as 25,000 people and triggering a firestorm that swept through the city ...

Today is Thursday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2026. There are 322 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Also on this date: In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, ...

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2026. There are 323 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 11, 1990, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. (Mandela would be elected president of South Africa four years later.) Also on ...

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2026. There are 324 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy ...

Today is Monday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2026. There are 325 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York on CBS. The quartet played five songs, including ...

Today is Sunday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2026. There are 326 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 8, 1968, three Black students were killed and 28 wounded as state troopers opened fire on demonstrators at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg in the aftermath of protests over ...