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.

Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans to kidnap the President and "carry him off" to Richmond, Virginia..

CIA agent, Tony Mendez, creates a plan and leads a rescue mission for six U.S. diplomats in Tehran.

KLM 4805 taxies down the runway directly toward Pan Am 1736, unaware of the risk the bad weather causes.

Even as he lies wounded, the president tries to protect his assassin.

Learn about Robert E. Lee and the famous military leaders for the Confederate States of America.

Learn about Ulysses S. Grant and the other famous Union military leaders.

Churchill, Truman, and Stalin plan to meet in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin in July 1945 to determine the political fate of Europe.

The Lusitania steers into the path of U-20 whose captain orders a torpedo attack. Although spotted by a Lusitania lookout, there isn't enough time to ...

Tortuga, located off the coast of Haiti, is home to buccaneers and a safe harbor for pirates.

The killing of Mary Jane Kelly, the Ripper's next victim, is one of the most shocking and infamous crimes in history.

Russia sends an unmanned robot to the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first human beings to walk on the moon.

Filthy trenches in WWI Europe are a perfect breeding ground for the Spanish Flu brought overseas by U.S. soldiers.

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