At 7:30 a.m., the British launched a massive offensive against German forces in the Somme region of France. In the past week, 250,000 Allied shells
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On the morning of July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on one of the last
After Vice President Aaron Burr killed Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, Hamilton’s widow, Elizabeth Schuyler “Eliza” Hamilton, had to
Slavery was a dominant feature of southern pre-war times, but it was also ubiquitous in the pre-civil war north – the New England states of
With its rising rhetoric on all men “created equal”, the Declaration of Independence gave a powerful voice to the values behind the American Revolution. Critics,
June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with russian space station Mir to form the largest artificial satellite ever orbiting the Earth. This
Some time after midnight, June 28, 1969, in what is now considered by many to be the first major demonstration in history in the name
By February 1945, it was becoming increasingly clear that not only would Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich not last a millennium as he had hoped; he
As the presidential election of 1800 approached, the Americans were more divided than ever. Outgoing President John Adams confronted Vice President Thomas Jefferson, the former