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.

Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569.

On May 22, 1939, Italy and Germany sign an alliance which is known as the "Pact of Steel."

The Gestapo derives its name from Geheime Staatspolizei - the secret state police of Nazi Germany.

After Patriots forced General Howe and his fleet out of Boston, the Brits sailed into New York Harbor in June of 1776. It was the start of a planned ...

Glienicke Bridge is known as the "Bridge of Spies" because it was the place, during the Cold War, where all spies exchanged between East and West were...

Photograph of the Granicus River as it appears today. Alexander the Great and his troops defeated the Persians at this river in 334 BC.

On the evening of October 8, 1871 a spark set Chicago ablaze. Learn what made it such an at risk city.

London was devastated by the Great Fire of 1666, which began - in Pudding Lane - on September 2.

In 1923, a major earthquake - known as the "Great Kanto" quake - devastated Tokyo and nearby Yokohama on September 1. It remains one of themost destru...

Paving the way for other activists to integrate Woolworth lunch counters, four African-Americans sat in "whites-only" seats at the Greensboro, North C...

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

Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about...

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