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This video, from NASA, depicts the 11 April 1970 launch of Apollo 13 (from three different angles) atop the mighty Saturn V rocket.
The Iranian Hostage Crisis began on the 4th of November, 1979.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS GRAPHIC SCENES OF WAR AND DEPICTS FACIAL WAR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY SOLDIERS.
On the 14th of April, 1865, President Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington. Earlier that day, John Wilkes...
Princip carries a .22 caliber Browning pistol as he and his gang members plot to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Gavrilo Princip tries to commit suicide, after his fatal shooting of the Archduke and his wife, but the cyanide in the capsule he swallows is old, hen...
The spark of WWI occurs on June 28, 1914 when Gavrilo Princip assassinates the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife in Sarajevo. This is t...
The U.S. National Archives sponsored a discussion on whether Mary Surratt was guilty of anything as an alleged Lincoln-assassination conspirator.
Scientists predicted that Asteroid 2012 DA 14 - about half the size of a football field - would fly past Earth on the 15th of February, 2013.
On the 15th of February, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA 14 was expected to travel within the Earth-Moon system.
Astronomers around the world expected that Asteroid 2012 DA 14 would be approximately 17,200 miles from the Earth's surface when it passed overhead on...
This clip is the actual FAA Air Traffic Control transmission from ATC Cleveland Center on the morning of September 11, 2001.
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