On Easter Sunday, April 3, 1043, a man who had spent most of his life as an exile in Normandy was crowned King of England at Winchester Cathedral in a ceremony of deep religious an
On June 2, 1953, a twenty-seven-year-old woman was driven through the streets of London in a gilded coach drawn by eight grey gelding horses while three million people stood in the
On April 10, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York, a sixty-one-year-old showman who had already lived several remarkable careers in a single lifetime launched what would become the most fam
On June 2, 455 AD, the gates of Rome swung open to admit an army that had sailed from North Africa to seize the greatest city in the Western world. No legions defended the walls. N
On April 18, 1938, a ten-cent comic book went on sale at newsstands and drugstores across America. Its cover showed a caped figure in a red-and-blue costume lifting a green automob
On June 1, 2009, at approximately 11:14 p.m. local time in Brazil, air traffic controllers on both sides of the Atlantic lost contact with Air France Flight 447. The Airbus A330 wa
On the morning of April 2, 1982, Argentine amphibious forces launched Operation Rosario, a military assault on the Falkland Islands, a remote British overseas territory sitting in
On the evening of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson stood before a special joint session of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives and delivered one of the m
In the spring of 1902, in a converted storefront at 262 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, a cowboy-turned-entrepreneur named Thomas Lincoln Tally opened a smal
On the morning of April 3, 1865, a Sunday barely twenty-four hours after the Confederate government had fled in the dead of night, Union soldiers marched into the burning ruins of
