This half-woman, half-fish oddity would become one of his most popular sideshow attractions of all time.

Clement Vallandigham came up with the snappy slogan, "To maintain the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Union as it was."

Mumtaz Mahal, the beloved Empress of India, died while giving birth to her fourteenth child.

A bunch of friends gathered at a summer house. Their creativity would mark a pivotal moment in horror history. 

A mysterious flaming blob flew into Traven Matchett's backyard in southern Ontario.

On this day Ella Fitzgerald spent her last morning listening to birds in the backyard of her Beverly Hills home.

A French physician named Jean-Baptiste Denys gave a 15-year-old boy about 12 ounces of sheep blood.

Jean Baptiste Kleber was one of the greatest generals from the French Revolutionary Wars.

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.

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.

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.