Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

What happened on this day in history: India gains its independence from the United Kingdom, the first day of the Woodstock music festival begins, and more events from August 15th.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

The discovery of human-shaped figurines near ancient burial sites in Jordan suggest an artistic shift — and a mysterious death ritual.

Harriet Jacobs published "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" in 1861 about the abuse she faced while enslaved and her escape to the North.

Duke Kahanamoku was a swimmer and surfer from Hawaii who won three Olympic gold medals and popularized the sport of surfing around the world.

A construction project in Lisbjerg, Denmark, took a surprising turn when work at the site turned up dozens of 10th-century Viking graves. Not only are the burials packed with incredible grave goods, ...

The remains of a pair of well-preserved prehistoric canines found in northern Siberia in 2011 and 2015 have now been identified as wolves – not dogs, as previously thought – following a newly-released ...

Discover the full story behind the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the presidential hopeful who was shot dead while on the campaign trail in California on June 5, 1968. By June of 1968, the United ...

Before she died in 1932, wealthy socialite Ida Wood spent the last 24 years of her life as a recluse holed up inside a sealed-off and slowly rotting room at New York's Herald Square Hotel.

Routine dredging work in the Netherlands’ Korte Linschoten River in March 2024 led to the discovery of a rare, 1,000-year-old sword with an “endless knot” motif engraved on its blade. The symbol is ...

The Mount Tambora eruption on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic explosion in world history.