PHOTOS: Babe Ruth debuts as Red Sox pitcher 100 years ago today
Baseball legend Babe Ruth debuted as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox 100 years ago today, on July 11, 1914, beating Cleveland 4-3. This gallery of photos from The Associated Press covers his...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid activist, dies at 90
Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who hated apartheid’s dehumanization of blacks, she was also a determined...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Apollo 11 mission and the first human moonwalk, 45 years later
Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface. The trio was launched to the moon by a Saturn V launch vehicle at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. They...
View ArticleHistory of Delaware County: 225 years in Photos
Delaware County is celebrating its 225th birthday this year. We will add photos new and old throughout the rest of the year.
View ArticlePHOTOS: WWI Centennial, July 28, 2014
(AP) A hundred years ago, on July 28th, 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, this event marked the the start of the First World War. It was the beginning of an era that paved the way for the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: President Richard Nixon resigns in wake of Watergate scandal, August...
On August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He was the first president in American history to resign. In a televised address, Nixon, flanked by his...
View ArticlePHOTOS: 100 years since Great Britain declares war on Germany
Monday August 4, 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany. In 1914 British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith announced at 11 pm that Britain was to enter the war...
View ArticlePhotos: Remembering the 1999 Jewish Community Center shootings in Granada Hills
Sunday, August 10, is the 15th anniversary of the shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills. The anti-Semitic attack left 5 injured, and later a postal worker was murdered....
View ArticlePHOTOS: Delaware County September 11th Remembrance Ceremony
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan, along with dozens of emergency responders gathered Thursday September 11, 2014 to hold the county’s annual remembrance ceremony on the 13th anniversary of...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Hurricane Hugo struck 25 years ago September 21-22, 1989
Hurricane Hugo was a Cape Verde hurricane that became a Category 5 (on the Saffir-Simpson Scale) storm in the Atlantic, then raked the northeast Caribbean as a Category 4 storm before turning northwest...
View ArticlePHOTOS: 55th Annual Media Borough Veterans Day Parade
Media Borough held their 55th annual Veterans Day Parade, Tuesday.
View ArticlePHOTOS: Protest held in Philadelphia, after Ferguson, Missouri grand jury...
Hundreds of protestors took to the streets in Philadelphia, following the Grand Jury Verdict which was released Monday night in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who is accused...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Die-In held outside of Lincoln Financial Field, following the...
Protestors took to the streets of South Philadelphia Sunday night following the Eagles, Seahawks game at Lincoln Financial Field. About 300 of the protestors took part in a die-in, which took place in...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated, January 30, 1948
Widely considered the father of independent India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 under British rule in India and grew to become one of the most iconic civil rights leaders in...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Grandmother’s Civil War photos goes to Library of Congress
Abraham Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Ill., draped in mourning cloth, after his assassination. Black mothers holding their babies, likely the first generation born into freedom. A battlefield in the...
View ArticlePhotos: The 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
Lincoln’s assassination and funeral train reverberated through York 150 years ago. The Great Emancipator’s foul assassin still roamed the countryside as Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train chugged its way...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Hillary Clinton enters 2016 race for president
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s running for president. The former first lady and secretary of state made her 2016 plans official on her campaign website Sunday. She says in a video that “everyday...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church in Swarthmore dedicated
Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church in Swarthmore was dedicated. The post PHOTOS: Holy Myrrh-Bearers Eastern Catholic Church in Swarthmore dedicated appeared first on The Delaware County Daily...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Holy Saviour Church in Linwood held its final mass, Sunday
Holy Saviour Catholic Church, founded in 1914 held its final mass on Sunday, July 12th. Hundreds of parishioners attended the mass that was officiated by Father Robert McDermott, and Deacon Dan...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Wild Bill Guarnere Bronze Monument Unveiled in Newtown Square
An eight foot high bronze statue of William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, was unveiled Saturday at the Delaware County Veterans Memorial in Newtown Township. The post PHOTOS: Wild Bill Guarnere Bronze Monument...
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