The world's largest edible mushroom was found on this day.
The world's largest edible mushroom was found on this day.
It was game 6 of the National League Championship Series and the Chicago Cubs were one victory away from going to the World Series! Then disaster struck.
Grammy Award-winning Charlie Rich was at the top of his career, but this was the night where he went a little off the tracks.
He was the most popular Cajun musician of his time, but tragically his life was cut short.
After over a dozen summers living amongst the bears, Timothy Treadwell (A.K.A Grizzly Man) and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenardwas were killed and eaten by a grizzly.
Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.
One of the richest sunken treasures of all time found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic on this day.
Evel Kenievel tried to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket.
The SS Princess Alice, a fully-loaded passenger steamship, collided with the Bywell Castle, a cargo ship hauling coal.
Eastman’s criteria for a name were that it had to be “short and euphonious and likely to stick in the public’s mind.”
All hell broke loose as one of the biggest quakes to ever hit the east coast left 60 people dead.
Max Factor was a cosmetics pioneer who rose from rags to riches and became famous around the world.
In 1907 two massive sections of the bridge snapped off and plunged over 300 feet into the Saint Lawrence River.
In 1859 a semi-retired train conductor named Edwin Drake engineered the world's first successful oil drilling operation.
Lon Chaney is most remembered for his iconic roles as Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as Erik in The Phantom of the Opera.