On April 20, 1918, the greatest ace of the Great War shot down his 79th and 80thenemy aircraft. One day later, he was dead. Manfred Von Richthofen was thirty-six at the time. The Red Baron was one of the Read more
Did you know an American President survived an assassination by a swamp rabbit? It happened on April 20, 1979. President Jimmy Carter was fishing in a flat-bottomed bottom alone while on vacation in Plains, Georgia. As he told a Read more
Paul Revere was a well-known silversmith in Boston. He was also a spy and courier for the Sons of Liberty. It was not a secret that the British were interested in the munitions stored in Concord, but when Dr. Read more
In honor of the birth of one of the great Robber Barons, here is my favorite anecdote about J.P. Morgan. He was born on April 17, 1837. J.P. Morgan had a skin condition that caused his nose to be large Read more
She was born on August 13, 1860 in a log cabin to a poor farm family in Ohio. Her name was Phoebe Anne Moses. Her sisters called her Annie and later she took the last name Oakley after a neighboring Read more
It was supposed to be a routine reconnaissance mission in support of an American assault on a Viet Cong stronghold. But the “stronghold” was My Lai and what the helicopter crew saw was not a battle, but a massacre. Read more
The two aviators ran to their planes and took off, they landed heroes. The day was April 14, 1918. For Lt. Douglas Campbell, it was the culmination of a dream to serve his country in battle. Campbell, the son Read more
The bugle sounded, followed by the Rebel Yell. What followed was the most infamous massacre of the Civil War. In March, 1864 Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest launched a cavalry raid into western Kentucky and Tennessee. One of his Read more
In March, 2004, four military contractors were killed in Fallujah, Iraq. When their bodies were burned and hung from a bridge, the Pentagon decided it was time to clean out the city. Operation Phantom Fury was planned as a Read more
After three days without food or water (or bathroom facilities), the two men emerged from the wood pile and began their journey to freedom. Rudolf Vrba (19 years old) and Alfred Wetzler (26 years old) were inmates in Auschwitz. Read more