Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Though James Earl Ray pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison, some believe that Ray might not be the assassin. The Mona Lisa Was Stolen!
Follow this two year long caper that shocked the world. An article from your About.com Guide.
The Monkey Trial
In 1925, a young biology teacher, John Scopes, was arrested for teaching evolution and put on trial. Learn more about the highly publicized "Monkey Trial" which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan. Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
There were so many in Nazi Germany that were guilty, but at Nuremberg the Nazi leaders were brought to trial. How do you try criminals of an enemy state? What would they be charged with? Who should be charged? Who was found guilty? Rwandan Genocide
Though many would like to thing that the last great genocide of the twentieth century was the Holocaust, they are wrong. In 1994, the Hutus in Rwanda murdered 800,000 Tutsi in just 100 days. San Francisco Earthquake
San Francisco literally rose from the ashes following the earthquake and fire of 1906, when the army was forced to dynamite buildings to stop the conflagration. Titanic
The true story of the Titanic is more powerful than the movie. Whey did it sink? Why weren't there enough lifeboats? What's left of the wreck? Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary had no idea that she was infected with the disease, yet her work as a cook infected many. Find out all about Typhoid Mary and why authorities had a difficult time capturing her. An article from your About.com Guide Watergate Scandal
U.S. President Richard Nixon resigned due to the huge scandal caused by the break-in at the Watergate building.
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