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.

The exploding supernova, Crab Nebula, is one of the most-studied of all objects in the sky.

The KLM captain attempts to avoid the collision, but slams into the side of the Pan Am jet.

Chapter 2 of How the Game of Monopoly Saved Over 10,000 Soldiers

Twenty men and one 14-year-old cabin boy leave Nantucket, aboard a whaleship called Essex. They plan to fill the barrels in their cargo hold with oil ...

Neither the Russians nor the US will budge on their positions about Cuba and the missiles.

Jesus begins his journey carrying his cross; soldiers strip him, crown him with thorns, and then humiliate him.

Russians are installing medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba with enough power to kill 80 million Americans.

Drs. Johan Hultin and Jeffrey Taubenberger study preserved tissue samples from WWI soldiers and from an Inuit woman to conclude the flu virus most lik...

Stonewall Jackson falls while carried from the battlefield and later dies from pneumonia.

Former Tsar Nicholas, his wife, his son, his four daughters and four of their assistants are shot in the cellar of their exiled home.

Pilate tries to reason with Jesus' captors, then orders his punishment and gives him to the soldiers for execution.

NASA and NOAA are able to track the spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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