A massive explosion rocked the area around Morgan, New Jersey as an ammunition plant blew up.

Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.

Are snails able to communicate telepathically?

The UFO zoomed straight at the F-51, then at the last minute darted upward.

Scientists were able to retrieve the 18-foot chunk of a tentacle and from its size they estimate the squid to have been at least 25 feet long.

7 people died in one of the most infamous drug-tampering cases of all time.

Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning at least 8 different times.

9 men died and 7 were injured in what became one of the most famous train wrecks in American history.

Stanislav Petrov made a decision that may have averted a nuclear war - and possibly the end of the world as we know it.

A massive fireball, possibly a bolide or comet nucleus, blew up above the Vitim River Basin in Siberia.

Pieces of the ship were found with chunks of pumice and lava embedded into the wreckage.

One of the richest sunken treasures of all time found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic on this day.

An American satellite picked up the tell-tale double flash of a nuclear explosion in a remote section of the Indian Ocean.

He was an instant her for saving the president’s life, but it came with a cost.

His name probably doesn't ring any bells, but his invention is one of the world's most useful items.

The novelty of this storm was her migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This was the first recorded instance of such a storm track.

A little after midnight, a mysterious object appeared over the Iranian capital.

It would become the largest maritime disaster of World War II.

Thomas Selfridge eagerly volunteered as a passenger aboard a plane flown by Orville Wright.

With a 20-year run and 635 episodes, it stands as America's longest-running, prime time, live-action drama.