Today in History for Dec. 6: In 1752, a government pamphlet in Halifax became the first book published in Canada. In 1780, Jean-Antoine Aide-Crequy, the first Canadian-born painter, died in Quebec ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals ...

On 21 June 1966, a rescue mission over Vietnam turned into a fierce aerial showdown between the nimble MiG-17 and the powerful F-8 Crusader. What began as an attempt to save a downed pilot exploded ...