Capping a months-long scientific and ethics review, British regulators said yesterday that they are prepared to allow the creation of embryos that are part human and part animal for use in medical experiments.
The ruling by the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority, which oversees human embryo research in Britain, means that two previously submitted proposals to [...]

On Sept. 6, 1901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (Go to article.)
1909 American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.
1941 Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow [...]