The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of ...

Bonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas ...

In an attempt to evade capture Robespierre only succeeded in shattering his jaw when he reputedly attempted to shoot himself with a pistol, and spent the rest of the night on a table in the Committee of General Security before he was executed by ...

President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. ...

Members of the Austrian Nazi Party, seeking to annex Austria into Nazi Germany, stormed the Chancellery building in Vienna where they shot and fatally wounded Dollfuss, who succumbed to his injuries later that ...

Often referred to as the lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in ...

Approximately 270 million acres of land were claimed and settled under the provisions of the act, with parcels of land continuing to be claimed in Alaska as late as the ...

Kennedy joked that he could retire after having had Happy Birthday sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome ...

Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal ...

These original New York stockbrokers traded from the Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street before moving to their first dedicated trading space in ...