Famous Historical Topics & Events Story Briefs

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

During World War I, one of the longest and most-vicious battles took place at Verdun, France. This image depicts a scene at Cote 304 (Hill 304). It i...

WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.

This image depicts "Robert," the H-bomb which fell into the Mediterranean Sea (off the coast of Spain) on January 17, 1966.

When Napoleon and his Grand Army reached Moscow, on the 14th of September, 1812, nearly the whole city had been abandoned. Then it erupted in flames. ...

The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to freely express themselves.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention issued a report on the 13th of September, 1787 preparing for the first federal elections.

On the 4th of July, 2005, NASA’s “Deep Impact” flyby spacecraft launched its impactor for a dramatic encounter with a comet known as...

What is a FLYBY spacecraft and how long have they been a part of NASA's space-exploration program? This image depicts the FLYBY spacecraft developed t...

Go back in time to see the early days of a revolutionary concept in the making of cars - the assembly line. It was created by Henry Ford, for the Mod...

This image depicts a scene from the investigation conducted by Nikolai Sokolov.

The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.

On the 1st of May, 1960, Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was a U-2 pilot flying an American spy plane over the Soviet Union.

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