On April 4, 1975, a plane carrying more than 200 Vietnamese orphans crashed. More than 130 people were killed in the crash, including 78 children.
The Leesburg Stockade Girls, who ranged in age from 12 to 15, were jailed for nearly two months without being charged with a crime. The young civil rights demonstrators missed Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream Speech' on Aug. 28, 1963.
As commander of the Continental Army, Washington ordered his troops to be inoculated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War. Now the Pentagon is making the same demand: active-duty troops must be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The women feared that a wildfire could threaten their Northern California homes and destroy the 174 family photographs and knickknacks they say show a warmer side to the infamous mob boss.
Though they have long been suspected to have been from the Nazis' nuclear program, the pedigree of these cubes has not been confirmed.
The bus driver who requested that Rosa Parks be arrested for not giving up her seat had repeatedly tried to run Lucille Times off the road months earlier.
Full animal skeletons — including at least 10 prehistoric dogs — and a bone-handled ritual dagger were also found in the bog.
A 1993 heat wave was responsible for 118 deaths. The city implemented several changes that became a model for cities around the world.
The request for the Justice Department to get involved comes weeks after Tulsa officials reburied remains that were exhumed from a mass grave discovered in a city-owned cemetery.
Rep. Barbara Lee faced death threats, insults and hate mail after the California Democrat voted against a broad authorization used to carry out the war in Afghanistan. The House vote was 240 to 1. The Senate vote was 98 to 0.
