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Beethoven premiered his 9th Symphony on May 7, 1824 in Vienna. Deafness prohibited him from conducting, but Beethoven was on stage for the first time ...
Although doctors searched for the derringer ball that killed Abraham Lincoln, they could not locate it with their probe. Something else had to happen ...
This image depicts an original page from President Trumans diary for the 17th of June, 1945.
On the 11th of April, 1951, President Truman dismissed General Douglas MacArthur from his position as U.S. Supreme Commander during the Korean War. Ye...
Dr. Jonas Salk and his team developed a polio vaccine at a time when children were dying of the illness. Declared safe and effective, in 1955, the vac...
Filipino and American prisoners of war, captured by Japan's Imperial forces, endured incredibly difficult conditions during the Bataan Death March.
Combatants in a military conflict try to win the hearts of the people with various types of propaganda.
One hundred years after Luther nails his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg (on October 31, 1517), a conflict called the Thirty Years W...
This letter, which is maintained by the Dutch archives in The Hague, provides some evidence that the Dutch West India Company purchased Manhattan Isla...
Victoria and Albert find privacy on the Isle of Wight, but tragedy strikes when Albert dies at age 42. For years, the Queen stays out of the limelight...
Lt. Col. James ("Jimmy") Doolittle and his crew ran out of fuel after their bombing run over Japan's home islands.
Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to students at Moscow State University, urging them to be free of fear and full of hope for the future.
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