A huge mother of all storms struck the east coast in 1888.
A huge mother of all storms struck the east coast in 1888.
The city walls were sixty feet high and they held back the lava for a week before it cascaded down and blazed a path of destruction to the sea.
Over 200 schools were destroyed in the disaster and it was clear that had the quake struck during school hours the death toll would have been significantly higher.
Two of the tram's steel cables got crossed and somehow one of them was severed. The cabin plunged 700 feet down the mountain and skidded another 300 feet before coming to a stop.
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 distinctive symbol was a combination of the letters N (for nuclear) and D (for disarmament) from the semaphore alphabet.
100 people died on this night in one of the worst nightclub fires in U.S. history.
A doctor who in 1928 figured out that cervical and uterine cancer could be easily detected using a vaginal smear.
It was a lavish party on this day that may have inspired a popular nursery rhyme.
This was the day that Jack Paar, host of The Tonight Show, made a very public stand against censorship.
Troup may be most remembered for writing the classic song, "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66." It's a song he wrote while driving from Pennsylvania to California
Researchers believe they have narrowed it down to an area the size of a football field.
Henry Heimlich is credited with the lifesaving abdominal thrust, but that was just one of his contributions to the world.
It was on this day during halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII that 90 million viewers were shocked and awed by Janet Jackson's breast.
Her legendary mastery of the Cancan combined with her wild and unrestrained antics made her the toast of Paris!
Today was the day that James Marshall found gold in California. The discovery kicked off a Gold Rush that would bring over 300,000 people to California.
The murder trial for Zona Heaster Shue's accused killer included a star witness from beyond the grave.