When Canada blew up an underwater mountain, it was one of the largest planned non-nuclear explosions of all time.

His 133 days all alone in the life raft still stands as the longest ordeal survived by a single man at sea.
 

It's now estimated that one in every three homes in America has a Scrabble game.

He was the first American president to die in office.

The Church of St. John on the Greek island of Rhodes was blown to smithereens.

A tragic loss inspired him to pioneer a method of sharing news instantaneously.

The BBC aired remarkable footage of a unique colony of flying penguins.

This was the day the BBC pulled off one of the greatest April Fools' hoaxes of all time.

He would help lay the foundation for modern philosophy, mathematics, and scientific thinking.

586,412 square miles of Alaska were purchased from Russia for $7.2 million.

A Philadelphian named Hymen Lipman filed a patent for a pencil with an attached eraser.

A farmer out for a late night stroll noticed something odd. The silence. The thundering sound of a gazillion gallons of water flowing over Niagara Falls was gone.

She was the stepmother and matriarch behind the Trapp Family Singers, who are immortalized in The Sound of Music.

It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America and the third biggest in the history of the world.