Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...

The crew all survived, and their expedition provided evidence supporting Heyerdahls hypothesis that it was possible for ancient South Americans to have travelled across the Pacific Ocean to ...

In his proclamation he also released all the states and princes of the Empire from their oaths of loyalty to him but continued to rule as Francis I, Emperor of ...

On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without a ...

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...

The turning point came when the French flagship, L'Orient, caught fire and exploded. The massive blast illuminated the night sky and demoralized the French ...

The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Franciscos first operational cable ...

Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...

The landscape was scarred by craters filled with water and, by the time the battle ended over three months later following the Canadian capture of the village of Passchendaele, there were approximately 500,000 casualties on both ...

The city of Baghdad was founded by the Abbasid Caliph ...