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.

This broadside, from the 1860s and printed in Boston, was created to persuade people, especially young men, of the dangers of alcoholic beverages. It ...

During the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when the Boers refused to surrender to the Anglos, the British rounded-up thousands of Afrikaners (Boers...

Misery descended on Ireland during the years of the potato blight. Although only the potato crop failed, famine followed when healthy crops were expor...

By the fall of 1944, American military leaders realized that Japan would be unwilling to surrender and convinced military planners to take drastic mea...

On the 18th of September, 1895, Professor Booker T. Washington gives an important speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atl...

Borodino, a small village about 70 miles west of Moscow, was the site of a bloody battle during the Napoleonic Wars. It took place on September 7, 181...

Patrick Magee, a member of the IRA, visits the Grand Hotel in Brighton about a month before the Conservative Party holds its annual conference there i...

During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1805, Britain fought against France in a naval clash known as The Battle of Trafalgar. Admiral Horatio Nelson employed ...

In 1667, a French pirate known as Franois L'Olonnais plans an attack on Maracaibo (a city in todays northwestern Venezuela). Disastrous consequences ...

This diagram depicts what happens if the Space Shuttle's Orbiter needs to return to the launch site.

How Captain Cook changed the way Hawaiians lived.

Captain Cook in Hawaii

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