On this day in 1876, the stage premiere of Peer Gynt, a five-act play in verse written by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway. Peer Gynt ...
On this day in 1998, the SCOTUS rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. Because the New ...