a 24-year-old woman from Oxford, Connecticut made the first jump from an airplane using a nylon parachute.

Americans got their first taste of the modern banana in 1876 at Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition.

Less than 24 hours after a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, one man stood defiantly before a column of Chinese tanks.

How do you get fans to show up to watch two struggling baseball teams? Cheap beer!

German troops had cut off hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian troops following the Battle of Dunkirk.

Ray Davies of The Kinks made a 6,000-mile round-trip flight from New York to London and back because of one word in a song.

The scale of the undertaking is awesome. The plans call for a finished sculpture that will be 641 feet wide and 563 feet tall.

His plane was shot down by eight German Junkers.

The most infamous soccer game of all time was a World Cup match between Chile and the Italy.

Ted Coombs' journey from L.A. to New York, then down to Virginia and back west to Kansas would wind up being 5,193 miles.

Some historians claim that Joseph Grimaldi was the first clown to paint his face white. He was a master of pantomime. Grimaldi's onstage antics in London and all across Europe were legendary.

The crowd flew into a panic and 12 people were crushed to death in the frantic exodus.

In one of American history's most infamous duels, future-president Andrew Jackson shot Charles Dickinson dead.

During his prime, he was America's most revered military leader, with a remarkable career that stretched from the War of 1812 through the Civil War.

Mathias Rust landed a rented plane in Moscow's Red Square. Some historians believe that his dangerous prank helped hasten the demise of the Soviet Union.

At the age of 19 he inherited a large fortune. He hired an army of servants and crawled into bed - where he would stay for the next 70 years.

97 British troops were gunned down in cold blood after they surrendered to German forces.

A massive migration of frogs closed off a major Greek highway as "millions" of the amphibians massed on the roadway.

Panic ensued as churchgoers struggled to reach the exits, but the inward opening doors hampered the evacuation. The church would burn to the ground in less than 20 minutes.

Casey Stengel (an outfielder for the Pirates) was hearing non-stop boos from the Dodger fans until he surprised them with this magic trick.