Famous Historical Topics & Events Chapters

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

In 1998, Al-Qaeda terrorists coordinate two nearly simultaneous bombings at U.S. embassies.

Terrorists connected to Osama Bin Laden use explosives aboard a small boat to bomb a U.S. naval destroyer in Yemen.

Terrorists bomb the World Trade Center in 1993 and plan other airplane attacks.

An Italian soldier, Captain Corelli is a fictional mandolin player who falls in love with a Greek woman; Amos Pampaloni is believed to be Corelli's re...

Prohibition Becomes Law

Pteranodon is one of the great flying reptiles from the Cretaceous Era.

Today, the Catholic Church still holds that Purgatory is a place where a person's soul goes after death.

Words describing rabies, going back to ancient times, are all based on fear. It is a disease from which people die if they develop symptoms.

The Navy has a long history of racial discrimination so Brashear does menial tasks and has little hope of advancement.

Soldiers on duty at Opana Point see evidence of incoming planes on new radar equipment. It turns-out that the planes are not the expected American pla...

Nuclear energy makes radiation, which can make living things sick or even kill them.

Nuclear energy creates radiation, which can make living things sick or even kill them.

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