As he recited a prayer, Thích Quảng Đức lit a match and set himself ablaze.

Legend has it that Sir John Popham rises from the dead every New Year's Eve and takes a step toward his empty tomb.

The Maori tradition was to strap their dead chiefs in an upright position and set them adrift.

The British ship's demise was a significant step toward the War for Independence.

In 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey and three companions became the first women to drive across the continent.

Nick Ut snapped one of the most powerful images of the Vietnam War.

A U.S. Navy submarine took careful aim at the mainland and launched a customized cruise missile in which the nuclear warhead had been replaced with a bunch of postcards.

The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines it had carefully placed beneath the German trenches near the town of Messen, Belgium. 10,000 Germans died in the attack.

A big space rock tumbled into the Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the eastern Mediterranean (between Libya and Greece).

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.