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John Newton wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" years after a dangerous sea voyage.

America captures its first U-boat, the U-505, off the coast of French West Africa.

Young Americans want to fly combat missions for France during WWI; they form the Escadrille Americaine (American Squadron).

Americans first enter Vietnam in the 1950s to advise the South Vietnamese; the plan was never to stay.

Completing all the physical tasks required, Brashear becomes the Navy's first amputee diver.

While living among his parishioners, Van Gogh's perspective of the mining families changes; then he begins to draw them.

The first "sport" is the foot race, and then wrestling and pentathlon; the ancient Olympic games ultimately number 18 and include boxing and horse rac...

After the arrest, Susan gives speech after speech to tell her story.

At the age of nineteen months, Helen Keller survives severe illness but loses her hearing and sight.

To control a near mutiny, the group creates the Mayflower Compact, the first known "American" self-governing document.

This image of a tomb outside the city walls of Jerusalem is known as the “Garden Tomb.” It is also referred to as “Gordon’s Ga...

The tomb is guarded against theft, but Jesus rises and appears to Mary Magdalene.