All of the Tuskegee Airmen (the first black airmen in U.S. history) have been invited to President-elect Barack Obama's 2009 presidential inauguration. However, finding every living Tuskegee Airman to extend...

From 1969 to 1977, Henry Kissinger taped all of his incoming and outgoing phone conversations and then had his secretary transcribe them. Although Kissinger never intended for these records to...

For about six months, Russia's state television channel ran a contest called "The Name of Russia," which asked people to vote for the greatest Russian in history. The list of...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has convicted Theoneste Bagosora of genocide and crimes against humanity. Since the Tribunal was not empowered to give the death sentence, Bagosora was sentenced...

On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,198 died in this disaster. When the...

To many people around the world, General Augusto Pinochet is best remembered as the brutal dictator of Chile (1973-1990) who had over 3,200 of his own people tortured and killed....

W. Mark Felt, better known as "Deep Throat," died on December 18, 2008 at the age of 95. Felt had been the associate director of the FBI when he became...

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." On December 18, TIME announced their...

Although World War I had been raging for only four months, it was already proving to be one of the bloodiest wars in history. Soldiers on both sides were trapped...

No, I am not talking about a historic piece of Adolf Hitler's birthday cake that somehow survived over half a century. This story is about a modern three-year-old little boy...