On this day in 1914, Austria-Hungary issues a punitive 10-point ultimatum to Serbia in the wake of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in Sarajevo the month before
In New Zealand, inhalation chambers were installed in public buildings in 1918 and people were asked to inhale a gas (zinc sulphate) that would allegedly protect them from the flu
April 5, 1933 – every gold coin, bar, and certificate – had to be surrendered to the U.S. Government or face 10 years in prison and a $10k fine
Lucy Higgs Nichols was born into slavery , but during the Civil War she managed to found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy and also the most shark attacks on humans in history
