On October 25, 1888, Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was born. He was a well-known explorer and American Navy officer. He rose to become the navy's read admiral for ...
Italian painter and architect Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, also referred to as Raphael or Raffaello, was born in that country. On March 2, 1483, he was born in ...
At the start of the mid-20th century, Jackie Robinson was a baseball icon. Most famously, he played in Major League Baseball as the first African American. ...
On May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri, Truman was born. On December 26, 1972, in Independence, Missouri, he passed away at the age of 88. After serving as a ...
The final Anglo-Saxon monarch of England was Harold Godwinson. Even though his rule lasted barely nine months, the Battle of Hastings, one of the most ...
Jimi Hendrix passed unexpectedly just as his career was beginning, despite being one of the most recognizable musicians of the 20th century. Nevertheless, he ...
John Quincy Adams, who was born on July 11, 1767, was one of the most intelligent and well-educated presidents the United States has ever had. As a young lad, ...
Born in Scotland, John Paul Jones would lead the American Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Among the political elites of America, he acquired a lot ...
Leif Erikson, whose name has an Icelandic sound to it, was one of the oldest and most well-known Norse explorers of his day. However, despite how old the ...
John Nash is a well-known figure to many of us as the brilliant mathematician whose biography served as the basis for the film A Beautiful Mind. He made ...
The "March King" and American military march composer John Philip Sousa left behind an incredible body of work that is still played today. His impact on ...
During the Crimean War, Mary Seacole was a nursing innovator. Mary established her own facility adjacent to the Balaclava battlefields and cared for soldiers ...
James Buchanan went by a moniker. Old Buck was who it was. On April 23, 1791, he was born in a log cabin near Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. Andrew Jackson enjoyed ...
The French Revolution was a period of significant political and societal change in France that began in 1789 with the founding of the Estates General and ended ...
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and the United States from around 1760 ...
Mummification is the process of preserving a dead person or animal for a long time by preventing decomposition. It might happen naturally, or it can be done on ...
The Battle of Thermopylae was regarded as part of the second Persian invasion of Greece between alliances of Greek city-states commanded by King Leonidas and ...
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual renaissance of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, ...