On This Day in History

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The 19th century produced a series of revolutions in transportation, yet it could be argued none have had a wider reach than the internal combustion engine.…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Six hundred miles east of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, Mount Tambora stretches nearly 9,000 feet above the Java Sea on the island of Sumbawa. On…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons While chasing Nazi units in full retreat through central Germany, the United States came across a grisly discovery on April 11, 1945: Buchenwald. The concentration camp,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the history of mankind, few diseases have caused more damage in the lives of young children than poliomyelitis. The crippling condition, caused by a virus…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons After a four-year fundraising effort, a group of influential businessmen and artists led by diplomat John Jay incorporated the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 13,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the history of science, there have been dozens of discoveries which have changed the nature of the field going forward. On April 14, 2003, following…

With the death of Hu Yaobang on April 15, 1989, the People’s Republic of China was sent into an emotional tailspin. A former General Secretary of the Central Committee of…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Situated on steep cliffs some 1,300 feet above the Judean Desert about 2.5 miles southwest of the Dead Sea, Masada is a UNESCO World Heritage Site…

Throughout the Cold War, a sharply-divided Europe always seemed the likeliest place for a full-scale conflict. During the late 1950s and early 1960s though, the Americas saw a rapid increase…