On April 29, 1945, the 45th Infantry Division of the Seventh American Army liberated Dachau, the first concentration camp established by the German Nazi regime.
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Three weeks after the trip from Tahiti to the Antilles, the HMS Premium is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master’s companion.
Cholera ravaged New York City in the summer of 1832, leaving its victims with sunken eyes, blue skin, severe diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. It had
When President Richard Nixon ordered American ground troops to invade Cambodia on April 28, 1970, he waited two days to announce on national television that
Thomas Edison applied for his first patent in 1868 when he was only 21 years old. The first original idea of the famous inventor was
One of the best ways to prevent the spread of the flu and other viruses is to wash your hands. Today, this may seem like
Cleopatra’s death seems to have taken place as dramatically as the life she lived. After the Egyptian Queen and her longtime lover, Roman General Mark
In the late summer of 1918, the second devastating wave of Spanish influenza arrived on the American coast. Carried by First World War doughboys returning
In early 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered his 12th year as President of the United States. The popular Democratic leader had led his country through