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.

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A Soviet sub hit the Wilhelm Gustloff with three torpedoes.

In 1979, student protesters take over the U.S. embassy in Tehran and take hostages.

With help from France, Americans win their war of independence when the British surrender at Yorktown.

Japan surrenders on August 14, 1945, just eight days after the US drops an atom bomb on Hiroshima.

Lucas, Belon's son, describes living through the tsunami, the survivors, the hospital and rescue by his father and brothers.

Rosenthal's photograph of Mt. Suribachi is famous, and survivors of the flag-raising return to the US to raise money for the war effort.

In April 2009, a Mexican woman dies from a severe virus; soon many others are ill around the world. Scientists believe the H1N1 Swine Flu virus is the...

The Nazis swear secrecy and follow a strict set of rules.

Zaitsev trains Tania Chernova, a female Russian-American, who seeks revenge against the Germans.

Tania Chernova is a Russian-American who comes to Russia to learn how to be a sniper and help defeat the Germans.

One theory, about the Whitechapel-area muders, suggests that Prince Albert Victor is Jack the Ripper.

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