Lyudmila Pavlichenko was born on May 30, 1916. She was tomboy who was fiercely competitive. Pavlichenko was attending the Kyiv University when Germany invaded the USSR. She was in the fourth year of her major in history. She had proved herself to be an excellent sharpshooter, but when she enlisted Read more…
The most famous photo from the Great Depression is “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange. Lange was born in 1895. She contracted polio at age 7 and it weakened her right leg and left her with a permanent limp. At age 17, her father abandoned the family. She took her Read more…
The first event in history that we can date for certain was a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. In the middle of the battle, a solar eclipse occurred and shocked the soldiers into stopping. A peace was worked out because the gods were apparently angry. We know Read more…
Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow when she was 19 (and he was 20). Her husband of three years was in prison. Soon after, Clyde went to prison for robbery. Bonnie visited him and slipped him a gun, which he used to escape. He was recaptured and when he was Read more…
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were rich boys attending graduate school at the University of Chicago. Having lived a pampered life, they came to the conclusion that they were superior to regular people. To prove it to themselves, they decided to pull off the perfect crime. On May 21, 1924, Read more…
May 19, 1897 was the birthday of the second most famous American pilot in WWI. Frank Luke was a fighter pilot who became known as “The Arizona Balloon-Buster” for his specialty of shooting down German observation balloons. These hot-air balloons were raised on cables to give a vantage over Allied Read more…
Aimee Semple McPherson was the most famous evangelist in America in the 1920s. She was known as “the Queen of Heaven” and had thousands of followers. Her International Church of the Foursquare Gospel opened a huge temple in Los Angeles. It could hold 5,000 worshipers. They would be serenaded Read more…
He was born on May 17, 1749 in England. He was the 8th of 9 kids born to a Reverend and his wife. He was orphaned at age 5 when both parents died. He was raised by siblings after that, but got a good education. As a child, he was Read more…
Montgomery Meigs went to West Point with Robert E. Lee. When the South seceded, Lee joined the Confederate army and Meigs never forgave him. When Meigs became Quartermaster General for the Union Army, he was in charge of military burials. In 1863, Lee’s wife Mary was not able to pay Read more…
In 1683, the Ottoman Turks laid siege to Vienna. During the siege, the Turks attempted to tunnel under the walls. Viennese bakers, working nonstop to feed the citizens, heard the digging and alerted the city. Later, an army led by King John III of Poland, lifted the siege. In Read more…