During his 22-year reign he earned a reputation as a wild eccentric who loved to build fantastic castles. His death was extremely suspicious.

Over the 50 years the open-pit mine operated it became one of the largest manmade holes on earth.

A man from Kentucky named Lewis Haslett called his invention an "Inhaler or Lung Protector."

The reactors getting pretty hot. How come we’re not getting enough water to cool it down?

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

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

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

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.

It was the deadliest non-nuclear and man-made detonation in history.

A big space rock tumbled into the Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the eastern Mediterranean.

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

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

Americans got their first taste of the modern banana in 1876.

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.

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

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

He came up with the idea as a protest against the energy crisis.