On September 5, 2006, Katie Couric makes headlines—and TV history—with her highly publicized debut as the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening news broadcast, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

On the sunny morning of September 5, 1991, in the Washington, D.

NASA's Voyager Missions: A Historic Launch of Two Spacecraft in 1977

On September 5, 1957, New York Times writer Gilbert Millstein gives a rave review to On the Road, the second novel (hardly anyone had read the first) by a 35-year-old Columbia University dropout named Jack Kerouac.

Historic Shipment: U.S. Sends First Radioactive Isotopes Abroad to Fight Blood Disorder

Inventor Sylvanus Bowser sells first gas pump, revolutionizing fueling at Indiana service station

Unearthing the Truth: The Discovery of Great Zimbabwe's Native African Origins

Historic Balloon Ascent Reaches 7 Miles: A Journey of Danger and Discovery in 1862

Darwin's Letter Sparks Evolutionary Breakthrough: The Beginning of a Scientific Revolution

Seen by some as a vicious murderer and by others as a gallant Robin Hood, the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James is born on September 5, 1847, in Clay County, Missouri.