Category: History Knowledge

On September 1, 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombarded Poland on land and in the air. World War II had started.

73 years after its sinking at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, a joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The

On September 1, 1972, in what is known as the “Match of the Century”, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeated Russian Boris Spassky at the

When David Hollister introduced a seat belt bill in Michigan in the early 1980s, which imposed a fine for not buckling up, the state official

Shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales – affectionately known as “the People’s Princess” – died in a car accident in

Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on August 29, 2005. Although it was only the third most powerful

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, the African-American civil rights movement reached its peak when Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed an

While visiting his family in Money, Mississippi, Emmett Till, 14, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman

By the time Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana in the early morning of August 29, 2005, flooding had already started. At 5 a.m.,