It was on this night that 9 Russian hikers lost their lives in a bizarre incident that remains one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries.
They took their seats at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store.
On this day a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid in space.
Did a bunch of reptilian humanoids create a network of tunnels under Los Angeles?
This was the first and only incident in which a superpower activated its nuclear suitcase.
A Japanese soldier was found hiding in the jungle, 27 years after World War II ended.
This was the day that two men went to the deepest place on earth.
A bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashes, scattering radioactive debris across miles of sea ice.
He is remembered for publishing the Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, but that is just one of his many contributions to history.
The accident dropped 4 hydrogen bombs on a small fishing village.