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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy devastated the nation. But the day before the shooting was just a normal day. It was particularly calm and uneventful for the gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Once a party drug, ketamine has found its way into modern medicine.

Four years before Amelia Earhart ever got into a plane, Ruth Law was already making a name for herself in the skies.

Sexual harassment has been existed in showbiz as long as there have been bright lights.

Back in the 1830s, Jim Crow wasn't yet a symbol of inequality. He was a fictional character in minstrel shows who, to entertain his audiences, performed in blackface.

After receiving complaints about carriages driving too fast, Washington D.C. policeman William H. West arrested a presidential speed demon.

For decades, the boundary between Mexico and the United States was little more than an imaginary line in the sand.

If you work in an office without offices, with just about everyone working in a large spare space full of stylish desks, straight lines and papers stored in a credenza, then you have met Florence Knoll Bassett.

A full year after the King James Bible was printed in 1631, people discovered an error.

After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, John Surratt traveled across three continents, wore disguises and used fake names for nearly two years to escape authorities.