History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

On April 12, 1975, the U.S. military evacuated Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of Operation ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The U.S. Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1945: President Franklin D.