On this day: January 4
Utah Grants Women the Right to Vote (Again)
On January 4, 1896, Utah entered the Union as the 45th U.S. state. Tucked into its new state constitution was a clause that quietly restored a right women there had already tasted—and lost: the right to vote.
The Day the United States Lost a Nuclear Bomb
It sounds like an urban legend, the kind of rumor born from Cold War paranoia. But it is historically true: the United States has lost nuclear weapons—multiple times.