West Ham United played on American soil for the first time in the Club’s history on 30 May 1963. The venue was historic Downing Stadium on Randall’s Island in New York City's East River, the competition was the International Soccer League and the opposition was Scottish side Kilmarnock.

Walter Hagen, another of golf’s legends, carded the only hole-in-one of his career during a practice round at Worcester CC on the sixth hole the day before the U.S. Open began. On June 2, he played a match in the practice round with trick shot artist Joe Kirkwood against Jones and Tommy Armour.

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

The Manitoba wildfires have forced 17,000 people to flee the province. Plumes of heavy smoke are expected to drift into the United States over Friday and Saturday, affecting millions of Americans.

Memorial Day, one of the United States' national holidays, is coming up next week. Here's what you need to know about it.

To historians and archivists, it points to the possibility that Trump’s presidency will leave less for the nation’s historical record than nearly any before it and that what is authorized for public release will be sanitized and edited to reinforce a carefully sculpted image the president wants projected, even if the facts don’t back that up.

Deacon Maccubin, founder of Lambda Rising bookstore in Dupont Circle, holds DC’s first annual Pride event, the Gay Pride Party, inspired by the parades in New York City that followed the Stonewall riots of 1969.