On November 24, 1963, President Kennedy’s accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed by Jack Ruby — a nightclub owner — in the Dallas police station.

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Technology yields new insight into how a Chinese emperor produced an army for eternity within his tomb.

On November 4, 1961, the legendary anchor Walter Cronkite was born. He reported on many pivotal events from 1937 to 1981, including World War II; the Nuremberg trials; Vietnam War; the Watergate scandal; the Iran Hostage ...

Ten years after being discovered, the “Hobbit Human” remains a controversial figure, with some researchers now thinking that this diminutive human-like being might not have been human after all.

On October 20, 1973, special prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed. Cox had conducted a detailed investigation of the Watergate break-in that revealed that the burglary was just one of many possible abuses of power ...

On the morning of October 16, 1793, nine months after the execution of her husband — King Louis XVI of France — Queen Marie Antoinette also faced the guillotine. Convicted of treason, she was 37 years old. Also ...

Archaeologists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona discovered a palatial construction with an audience hall at La Almoloya in Pliego, Murcia, Spain. A prince's tomb in the subsoil contains the largest amount ...

October 1, 1569, Britain's Queen Elizabeth imprisoned Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk for attempting to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.

True Love Really Exists. Archeologists just uncovered remains of two 700-year-old skeletons still holding hands at a “lost” chapel in Leicestershire, England.