At 9:49 a.m. on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building. Find out why the bomber crashed and what happened to the Empire ... Read More

Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie, cult group known as "the Family" whom he ... Read More

When the U.S. stock market crashed in 1929, President Herbert Hoover attempted to stop the U.S. economy from spiraling into what has become known as the Great Depression. Although President ... Read More

In 2008, a new four-acre memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. is expected to open in Washington D.C. at the north-east corner of the Tidal Basin. The central feature of ... Read More

On July 19-20, 1916, Australian and British troops attacked the Germans at Fromelles, France in order to provide a distraction for the Battle of the Somme. The Germans, who held ... Read More

I know I'm not the only one anxiously awaiting the release of the seventh Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, on Saturday, July 21, 2007. While waiting ... Read More

In a new biography titled Lord Larry: A Personal Portrait of Laurence Olivier, author Michael Munn states that Laurence Olivier worked for the British Special Operations Executive. Olivier was to ... Read More

Urged by his accountant to keep daily records of his expenditures, the quiet and private baseball hero Joe DiMaggio began keeping a diary from 1981 until 1993. Unlike most people ... Read More

Known as one of the most evil people in history, Adolf Hitler became the Fuehrer of the Third Reich in Germany and was responsible for World War II and the ... Read More

How did the U.S. get involved in Vietnam? When were U.S. ground troops first sent? Why did President Johnson not plan on winning the war? Learn more through this historical ... Read More

Follow the progression of the Vietnam War, from the beginning of French colonization to the dedication of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C., in this wonderful timeline of the ... Read More

Former First Lady of the United States, Lady Bird Johnson died today, July 11, 2007, at the age of 94. The wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird was ... Read More

The Tet Offensive, the largest battle so far in the Vietnam War, was a major turning point in the war. Find out what happened on that holiday day in January ... Read More

Why did U.S. soldiers call their enemies "Charlie"? What is a "Freedom Bird" and who were "doves" and "hawks"? Take a peak at this glossary of terms, phrases, acronyms, and ... Read More

On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, was stolen right off the wall of the Louvre. It was such ... Read More

For three decades, the true identity of "Deep Throat" remained an unsolved mystery that obsessed the nation. Deep Throat was the informant who gave Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward ... Read More

You have read her diary and you know her story. But do you know these five things about Anne Frank and her diary? More about Anne Frank: Biography of Anne Frank Anne Frank ... Read More