Afraid of becoming victims of the horrors being perpetrated in Eastern Europe, 769 Jews attempted to flee to Palestine on board the Struma. But, instead of finding freedom, they found ... Read More

A lock of the revolutionary Che Guevara's hair will be going up for auction. The three-inch lock was cut before Guevara's burial in 1967. Heritage Auction Galleries is hosting the ... Read More

After his death in 1953, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's remains were embalmed and put on display next to Vladimir Lenin. Hundreds of thousands of people came to see the Generalissimo ... Read More

On the location of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, a museum to Woodstock is being built. This museum, officially called the Museum at Bethel Woods, will provide ... Read More

During the night of December 2-3, 1984, a storage tank containing methyl isocyanate (MIC) at the Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked gas into the densely populated city of Bhopal, India. ... Read More

You probably already know the story of the young teenager who went into hiding with her family to escape the Nazis. You may have also ready the famous diary that ... Read More

On the morning after the 1948 presidential election, the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline read "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." That's what the Republicans, the polls, the newspapers, the political writers, and even ... Read More

In 1921, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with a bout of polio that left him partially paralyzed, there were no organizations to lend support. Although Roosevelt had the money ... Read More

At the end of World War II, the Soviet army carried away approximately 20,000 letters written by the public to Adolf Hitler. The letters, dated from 1925 and 1945, ranged ... Read More

A new biography about Charles Schulz, the creater of the Peanuts comic strip, arrives at bookstores on October 16, 2007. In Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, author David Michaelis portrays ... Read More

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the very first artificial satellite into space, Sputnik I. Although only 22.8 inches (58 cm) in diameter and weighing 184 lbs (83.6 ... Read More

After Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess flew to Britain on May 10, 1941 to negotiate an apparently unbacked peace with Britain, he was captured and held in prison as a POW. ... Read More

During the night of July 16/17, 1918, Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandria, and their five children were taken to the cellar and shot and bayoneted to death by Bolsheviks. ... Read More