What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.
On the 21st of December, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 left Heathrow (in London) headed for New York City.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP FEATURES STORIES OF WITNESSES WHO EXPERIENCED THE TRAGEDY OF LOSS AT LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND.
Peter Ackroyd compares one great fire of London (during September of 1666) with another great fire (during the same month in 1940).
A judicial inquiry into the reasons for the wreck was headed by Lord Mersey, a fair man.
Abraham Lincoln's son William died on February 20th, 1862 of typhus.
WARNING - THIS CLIP DEPICTS GRAPHIC SCENES OF MISTREATMENT IN A PRISON SETTING.
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
As Lusitania steamed across the North Atlantic, its passengers (such as the American, Alfred Vanderbilt) were not thinking about lurking U-boats.
When the torpedo hit her starboard side, Lusitanias bridge lost control of the ship.
Just west of the Old Head of Kinsale on Irelands southern coast, Lusitania was about fourteen miles offshore.
The Lusitania set sail from New York City in the spring of 1915, despite a warning from the German government which threatened to sink non-military sh...
Captain Turner had planned to go down with his ship, but he was knocked unconscious.
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