Madame Chiang Kaishek Dies
Sunday October 26, 2003
Soong May-ling married Chiang Kaishek, the leader of China, in 1929. Having been educated in the U.S., she used her English skills to appeal to the U.S. for aid ... Read More
Columbine Target-Practice Video Released
Friday October 24, 2003
About six weeks before Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot and killed thirteen people at Columbine High School, they filmed themselves at target practice. On March 6, 1999, ... Read More
Mussolini Wanted Hitler Excommunicated
Monday October 20, 2003
Though Benito Mussolini always publicly acted as an ally to Adolf Hitler, recent documents made available by the Vatican show a different side to the relationship. Apparently, in April ... Read More
World War I Photos
Sunday October 19, 2003
A collection of photographs from the First World War, including historic photos of trenches, planes, tanks, and soldiers in action.
Mother of Last Russian Tsar to Be Reburied
Saturday October 18, 2003
Empress-Dowager Maria Fedorovna, the mother of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, will be exhumed and reburied on September 26, 2004 in a cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. Maria Fedorovna traveled ... Read More
President Taft's Sleepiness Investigated
Friday October 17, 2003
U.S. President William Howard Taft had a tendency -- a very common tendency -- to fall asleep when talking to people, while reviewing troops, and when signing papers. Boy, ... Read More
New Gandhi Statue in Houston
Tuesday October 14, 2003
On Tuesday, October 14, ground was broken in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas for the placement of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. The statue, created by Ram Sutar and ... Read More
Kent State Apology Letter Appears on TV Show
Monday October 13, 2003
On May 4, 1970, U.S. National Guardsmen were sent to the Kent State campus in Kent, Ohio to keep the Vietnam War protesters from getting out of hand. After ... Read More
The Boer War Begins
Saturday October 11, 2003
On October 11, 1899, the British and the Dutch (called Boers) in South Africa began a three-year war for control over the gold-rich territories in southern Africa. Learn more ... Read More
Biography of Enrico Fermi
Wednesday October 8, 2003
Enrico Fermi made important discoveries about the atom which led to the splitting of the atom (atomic bombs) and the harnessing of its heat into an energy source (nuclear energy). ... Read More
Henry Ford Uses an Assembly Line
Tuesday October 7, 2003
On October 7, 1913, Henry Ford used the first large-scale, moving assembly line to produce his Model-T. Though Model-Ts had been built since 1908, they hadn't achieved Ford's goal ... Read More
Putting Names to Historic Pictures
Sunday October 5, 2003
Otto Bettmann spent his life collecting and preserving photos from the past. In honor of what would have been his 100th birthday, the Bettmann Archive (now part of Corbis) ... Read More
Holding the Hope Diamond
Friday October 3, 2003
It was a rare day at the Smithsonian on October 2. When testing was to be done on the Hope diamond, the display case was opened and curators decided ... Read More
Profile of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Thursday October 2, 2003
J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Manhattan Project, the U.S.'s attempt during World War II to create an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer's struggle after the war with the morality ... Read More
Nazis Sentenced at Nuremberg
Wednesday October 1, 2003
At the end of World War II, Nazi leaders were put on trial at Nuremberg to show the world the crimes that were committed during the war. On October ... Read More