Historical Planet

 Hidden beneath the glass and steel of modern Brickell lies the Miami Circle , a 2,000-year-old archaeological enigma carved directly into t...

New York City, circa 1932.Cherry Street looking toward the intersection with Oliver Street.The building in the middle with the columns is a ...

Henry Dangerfield, was a kinsman of Gov. Holmes, came to the Mississippi territory after the latter's appointment, and was appointed sec...

 SHERMAN’S ARMY WAGONS GOING THROUGH ZANESVILLE IN 1865

George Hendrick Houghton was American Protestant Episcopal clergyman: b. Deerfield, Mass., 1820; d. 1897. He was graduated at New York Unive...

Robert Wilson Patterson .D., LL.D., clergyman, was born in Blount County, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1814; came to Bond County, Ill., with his parents ...

BARD OF TOWER HALL”—Pen-name of Lewis Dela, who was a clothing salesman in the store of Colonel Joseph M. Bennett at 518 Market Street, whic...

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say...

Orchestra conductor and pianist; Avas born at Darmstadt, Bavaria. At Heidelberg and Leipsic he studied philosophy, graduating from the Unive...

Discovered in an abandoned mine in New Mexico, a set of Levi's jeans dating back to the 1880s were recently sold at an auction for $87,0...

In the spring of 1945, Winston Churchill ordered his Chiefs of Staff to draft, ‘Operation Unthinkable’ to attack the Soviet Union after WW2 ...

 

 

 

6 April 1917, the United States declares war on Germany after passing President Woodrow Wilson's resolution for military action. House o...

4 Apr 1917, the first test flight of SPAD S.XIII, a French biplane. Within months, it entered service with Aéronautique Militaire. Used late...

2 Apr 1916, an explosion at a gunpowder mill at Uplees, Faversham. 200 tons of TNT detonated after empty sacks caught fire. 115 deaths, incl...

Night of 21 Mar 1917, on way from Philadelphia to Rotterdam carrying oil, unarmed American SS Healdton, owned by Standard Oil, was torpedoed...

  24 Mar 1916, while on way from Folkestone to Dieppe, SS Sussex was torpedoed by UB-29. 378, including 75 Americans on board. 50+ died, no ...

Brigham Young Born in Vermont in 1801 to a Protestant family, Brigham Young, carpenter, painter, and glazier, joined the Mormons in Ohio in ...