Click to view full Infographic Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party of China launched an aggressive campaign to transform the nation by officially instating the Great Proletarian…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons For generations, the excesses of the Bourbon royal family weighed upon the people of France. Through wars and extravagant construction projects, the kings and queens spent…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons After decades of enormous success and generous donations, legendary captain of industry Andrew Carnegie died on August 11, 1919 – likely as the second wealthiest man…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Widely regarded as one of the most beautiful and cunning women in world history, Cleopatra VII Philopator ended up on the wrong side of Rome on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The most famous capital in the New World finally succumbed to Spanish conquistadors on August 13, 1521. After nearly two centuries as the center of the…

Click to view full Infographic Two years before German tanks rumbled into Poland, the early stages of World War II began taking shape. Five weeks after the Japanese launched an…

Click to view full Infographic After bringing Beatlemania across The Pond in 1964, George, Paul, John and Ringo decided to take things to a whole new level on their second…

Click to view full Infographic Having utilized oceangoing vessels to carry mail for centuries, the completion of a transatlantic telegraph cable opened the United States and Britain to the possibility…

Click to view full Infographic After five weeks on the subcontinent, Sir Cyril Radcliffe had completed a monumental task on August 17, 1947: separating the former British Provinces of India…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Few people encapsulate the wonder of the early 19th century in the United States like Meriwether Lewis, half of the famous duo that explored the vast…