It was on this day during spring training in Daytona Beach, Florida, that Wilbert Robinson waited in the outfield for a baseball to be dropped from an airplane.
St. Francis Dam Collapses
A flood of 12 billion gallons crashed through the canyon and swept away everything in its path.
Galileo's Middle Finger
The Italian astronomer Galileo died hundreds of years ago, but he's been giving us his middle finger ever since.
The Great White Hurricane
A huge mother of all storms struck the east coast in 1888.
Mount Etna Erupts
The city walls were sixty feet high and they held back the lava for over two weeks before it cascaded down and blazed a path of destruction to the sea.
Great Sheffield Flood
The disaster left an 8-mile path of destruction that wiped out over 400 homes, 100 factories and 20 bridges.
Mary Attacks Venus
The attack was one of many dramatic protests between 1913-1914 as women fought for the right to vote.
Amy Spain
The last slave executed in America was a seventeen-year-old girl named Amy Spain.
The Last Holdout
It was on this day, 29 years after World War II ended, that a lone Japanese soldier was finally coaxed out of his hiding place in the Philippines.
Death by Toothpick
Sherwood Anderson loved to write about "grotesques." That was his way of describing people who are undermined by their own illusions or false dreams.
The Sakai Incident
The port was off-limits to foreigners and as soon as the Frenchmen pulled up to the docks they were attacked by a bunch of samurai.
The Yogi
Through yoga and meditation, he inspired his students to see beyond the current moment and to understand the deeper calling inside each living being.
"I'm glad it was me instead of you."
Today was the day that Mayor Anton Cermak died from a bullet that was intended for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The Execution of Lena Baker
Her last words were, "What I done, I did in self-defense. I have nothing against anyone. I'm ready to meet my God."
The Bunion Derby
At 3:30 PM on this day, 199 runners left Los Angeles for the first Transcontinental Foot Race. The first man to make it to New York City would win $25,000.
Kentucky Meat Shower
A strange meat-like substance rained from the sky, and it didn’t taste like chicken.
The Ballard Gutter Ball
He had just rolled 2 strikes and only needed to knock down 7 pins for the win and a $150,000 payday.
Charlie Chaplin's Grave Robbers
It was on this day that Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen.
U.S.S Princeton
An exploding cannon killed 6 people, including members of President John Tyler's cabinet.
Spring Heeled Jack
He breathed blue flames and bounced over high walls with ease.