In 1999, a chain reaction at the Joyo fast research reactor in Tokaimura, Japan, triggered what is thought to be one of the country's worst nuclear accidents.
Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who led the country between 1922 and 1943, was a known womanizer. Here is the incredible truth behind his love life.
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of people breached the United States Capitol building to try and stop Congress from formalizing President Joe Biden's victory.
There was something Adolf Hitler enjoyed doing that, by his own admission, bordered on addiction, and it's far from anything you'd expect from the dictator.
It's a common enough dark joke: Someone goes out for a quick errand and doesn't come back for years. A 1913 New York City parks commissioner did exactly that.
One set of discoveries in the 1960s, though, led researchers to dub a particular cave the "Cave of Horrors." This cave, unlike others, held a surprise.
A letter from 1934 has shed new light on a long-held suspicion regarding King Tut's tomb and its contents; specifically, the real reason some of it was missing.
The life of the U.K.'s royal family is filled top to bottom with traditions dating back centuries. Many will come into play with the death of Queen Elizabeth.
When President George Washington died, many couldn't imagine an America without him. Here is how one ambitious doctor tried to bring Washington back to life.
A preschool-age child goes missing on a family excursion. A heartbreaking scenario, resolved when the child is located later and returned -- or was he?
Anne Frank is remembered for her intimate diary that she kept while hiding from the Nazis. Her older sister, Margot, also kept a diary during this time.
Harriet Tubman, a woman who escaped enslavement and helped dozens of others to do so, was deeply respected by Lincoln's secretary of state, William Seward.