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.

A local judge and friend, Wells Spicer, absolves the Earps andDoc Holliday for the murders of the McLaurys and Clanton.

The three-part trading system consists of European goods, African slave labor, and British colony resources, such as coffee and tobacco.

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. tests an atomic device with stunning results. It was a day the world changed.

Menelaus talks his brother, Agamemnon, into helping him get his wife back. The Greeks set sail with 1,000 ships and believe that they will win the war...

There is bad blood between the Earps, the Clantons and the McLaurys.

Eyewitness accounts confirm there were no North Vietnamese boats in sight during the alleged attack of August 4, 1964.

Robert Kennedy tells Russia it will take four or five months to remove US missiles from Turkey.

U-boats are submarines the Germans use to attack Allied supply ships.

U-boats are submarines the Germans use to attack Allied supply ships.

A German engineer, Arthur Scherbius, creates the Enigma device in 1923; the Nazis use the codes, to great advantage, in WWII.

Navajo code talkers, speaking their unwritten language, create an unbroken code which greatly helps the Marines during their battle for Iwo Jima.

The medical report shows that some astronauts may have lived until the crew cabin hit the ocean.

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