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.

On the 1st of December, 1955, Rosa Parks was riding on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the driver ordered her to give-up her seat for a white perso...

Not long after J. Howard Miller - the artist at Westinghouse who created the "We Can Do It!

Rudolf Abel, whose real name was William Fisher, under arrest for espionage, is transferred by plane to/from Texas where he is questioned at the Deten...

For more than 700 years Russia, a nation rich in natural resources, has defended herself against invaders from other countries.

On the 15th of February, 2013 a weather satellite - known as Meteosat-9 - captured images of an unexpected meteor as it broke into Earth's atmosphere.

As he was driving in the town of Kamensk-Uralsky, located north of Chelyabinsk (zoom-in on this Google map to compare the relative locations), Alex Iv...

A surveillance camera, observing traffic in Chelyabinsk (a city of more than 1.

Lake Chebarkul - located about 43 miles (70 kilometers) southwest of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk - is likely where the Russian meteorite (of 15 Fe...

After a meteor streaking across the Russian sky exploded near Chelyabinsk, the blast broke the sound barrier.

Sacajawea (Sacagawea) was the only woman with the Corps of Discovery expedition.

By the fall of 1692, the authorities running the Salem Witch Trials begun to have second thoughts about all the claims. Perhaps Governor Phips decided...

While "witch hunts" frequently took place in parts of Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries - resulting in the deaths of up to 50,000 people - th...

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