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.

Marie & Pierre Curie were married scientists who first isolated radioactive radium salts on the 20th of April, 1902. Learn more about their world-chan...

On the 22nd of November, 1963, Marina Oswald (who did not speak English well) signed an affidavit.

Dr. King gives his powerful, transforming ''I Have a Dream'' speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.

On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luth...

Mary, Queen of Scots married Francis, the Dauphin of France when she was 15 and he was 14.

Mary Kelley lived at 13 Miller's Court on Dorset Street.

Elizabeth I signed her cousin's death warrant. This image depicts a segment of the only surviving copy of that death warrant.

A real-life MASH unit, in Korea, gives rise to a popular CBS television show called M*A*S*H.

Before and after casts for making masks line the wall of the Anna's Studio in Paris.

According to Sarah Farmer, in her 1999 book "Martyred Village - Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane," tragic events took place as the...

Max Schmelling was a German boxer who had great success in the ring. He also helped Jewish people who were threatened by Nazi policies.

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