Famous Historical Topics & Events

In 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik (the world's first artificial satellite) into space from Site No.

It's 110 years since America's largest-recorded avalanche struck the town of Wellington in Washington state. How did this disaster occur?

U.S. Marines fight desperately to keep the airfield at Guadalcanal.

This photograph depicts a replica of the small cabin in which Henry David Thoreau lived and worked for two years (between 1845-1847).

In this imagined scene, by an unknown nineteenth-century artist, Galileo reveals his telescope to a group of Venetian lawmakers (including the sitting doge, Leonardo Donato). The date was August 25, 1609.

This engraving depicts the Beagle, a ship on which Charles Darwin made his famous voyage.

Polio, a virus-caused disease which also existed in ancient times, is incurable.

As another German assault against Verdun began on the 23rd of June, 1916, French troops remembered the words of their General to not let the enemy pass.

General Sam Houston suffered a serious injury in the battle which led to the surrender of Santa Anna.