Category: History Knowledge

In France, the Duke of Windsor – formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – married Wallis Warfield, a divorced American socialite

On June 3, 1943, a group of American sailors marched through downtown Los Angeles, carrying clubs and other makeshift weapons and attacking anyone wearing a

In the summer of 1967, latent tensions between the police and the black community of Detroit, Michigan exploded in five chaotic days of looting, arson

By the end of 1984, AIDS had already ravaged the United States for several years, affecting at least 7,700 people and killing more than 3,500

In Rouen, in Normandy under English control, Jeanne d’Arc, the peasant woman who had become the savior of France, was burned at the stake for

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president in 1933, he took the helm of a United States brought to its knees by the

Between 1764 and 1767, a mysterious creature called the Beast ravaged the rural region of Gévaudan, in France. A hundred men, women and children have

One of the benefits of being President is the ability to work from home. Since John Adams moved to the White House in 1800, all

A boat carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution was turned back from Havana, Cuba, on May 27, 1939. Only 28 immigrants were admitted to