Phillip Katz helped create one of the most popular sharewares of all time.
Phillip Katz helped create one of the most popular sharewares of all time.
He was a former preacher turned comedian who rose to fame with an intense, often sacrilegious routine that was punctuated with his trademark screams.
The 10-second snippet of a man singing Au Clair de la Lune is the oldest known recorded sound of a human voice.
A one-legged Canadian broke the world record with a high jump of 6 feet and 8.25 inches.
His crime is the only documented fatality related to poisoned Halloween candy - ever.
This pitchfork-wielding Saint drove the grasshoppers out of Finland, or so they say.
It would flow out of control for 18 months. Over 9 million barrels of crude oil were spilled before the well could finally be contained. At its peak, the spill formed a 60-acre lake of oil.
Fannie Lou Hamer was the granddaughter of slaves who grew up to be a freedom fighter.
Robert C. Baker invented some of the most popular fast food items of all time.
An undertaker invented a pivotal piece of technology that would automate phone exchanges.
Over 200 schools were destroyed in the disaster and it was clear that had the quake struck during school hours the death toll would have been significantly higher.
100 people died on this night in one of the worst nightclub fires in U.S. history.
Three rockhounds found what appeared to be a manmade piece of machinery encased in a 500,000 year old rock.
This was the day that Jack Paar, host of The Tonight Show, made a very public stand against censorship.