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.

Catch a ride on the Cassini spacecraft and watch as its Huygens probe lands on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon!

This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...

This historical footage, shot by the Edison Company soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, depicts the widespread impact of the disast...

On the 4th of July, 2005, an 820-pound copper projectile called IMPACTOR struck a comet named Tempel 1. Watch an animation of that significant event.

Image of a lithograph called "Louis XVI and his Family in the Chateau du Temple," by Edgar Melville Ward.

As Henry VIII's troops continued to terrorize the Scots - after the Scottish Parliament refused to approve the Treaty of Greenwich whereby Mary, Queen...

70 years later, people still feel the impact of partitioning India into two countries (India and Pakistan) based on religion.

When Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union, he implemented an industrialization program which transformed the USSR.

What actually happened in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II?

Worried about his own future, and his lack of patients, Dr. Fred Banting had an idea during the middle of the night. What he thought about led to the ...

Once Dr. Macleod allowed Dr Banting to use a lab at the University of Toronto, research into the potential treatment of diabetes moved quickly forward...

As economic conditions grew desperate for Irish people, during the potato famine, residents of entire villages abandoned their homeland in search for ...

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