Famous Historical Topics & Events Videos

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

In this clip from the Edison Company's historic film footage, taken immediately after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, we see enormous damage.

Historic footage, filmed by an assistant of Thomas Edison, shows the devastated waterfront at Galveston after the Great Storm of 1900.

Thomas Edison ammounced his invention of the phonograph on the 21st of November, 1877.

Two months before her death, at age 91, Edith Shain tells her story about the time an unknown sailor kissed her.

On the 11th of December, 1936, King Edward VIII signed an Instrument of Abdication by which he gave up the British throne.

American papers publish what the British papers will not publish about King Edward's relationship with Wallis Simpson.

When the Eiffel Tower reached 110 meters, a second platform was opened.

As the Eiffel Tower began to rise, a group of Parisian artists were upset about it.

Gustave Eiffel had a contract, with the city of Paris, to operate the Eiffel Tower for twenty years.

When Gustave Eiffel saw the drawings prepared by his engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, he found them to be "logical, simple, impeccable.

Although the riveters had agreed to put up with long days, working on the tower became dangerous when wind and snow began to cause problems.

On September 17, 1918, French reconnaissance planes confirmed that German troops were retreating from the Second Battle of the Marne.

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