One O'Clock Gun, Although it occurs just once a day, the One O’Clock Gun is one of the country’s most famous traditions, and one of its most unique talking points. First fired in 1861 as a ...

We have had quite the fetish with alarm clocks lately and I think Roger Ibars, designer of the Gun-Operated Alarm Clock, hit it right on the head. There isn’t a morning that I don’t feel like ...

April 9, 2013 -- WASHINGTON - With a filibuster threat in the air, the gun control debate takes a personal turn today on Capitol Hill as the families of the Newtown, Conn., shooting implore ...

The 9 o’clock gun was first silenced in 1907 by Rear Adm. E. D. Taussig, then the Portsmouth naval shipyard’s commander, because it was disturbing a child who lived at the yard.

‘s 9 o’clock gun did not ‘wither away largely without notice.’ It was eliminated by individuals who do not care one whit for a town’s tradition or history.

A woman has fired Edinburgh's famous One O'Clock Gun on the castle ramparts for the first time. Bombardier Allison Jones, 34, is a member of 207 Battery, 105 Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers). The ...