John Kendrick was a Cape Cod sea captain who lived an adventure-filled life commanding whaling ships in peacetime and war ships during the American Revolution.
All in Accidents
This was the night that the historic Montreux Casino on the shore of Lake Geneva, Switzerland burned to the ground.
The federal government would spend $32 million to relocate the citizens, plus another $110 million on the subsequent cleanup.
In 1907 two massive sections of the bridge snapped off and plunged over 300 feet into the Saint Lawrence River.
Lon Chaney is most remembered for his iconic roles as Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as Erik in The Phantom of the Opera.
Jim Reeves was one of the smoothest crooners on the airwaves in the fifties and early sixties. His velvety voice helped establish the Nashville Sound.
A B-25 bomber on a routine transport mission slammed into the Empire State Building.
114 people were killed and over 200 were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri.
Howard Hughes took one of the fastest planes ever built on a maiden flight that almost killed him.
It was on this day during halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII that 90 million viewers were shocked and awed by Janet Jackson's breast.