On December 29, 1890, U.S. Army troops killed hundreds of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. December 29 marks ...
A merchant’s son, Thomas Becket rose to fame and fortune as a royal chancellor and then archbishop of England — all due to the patronage of Henry II, whose eventual fury over Becket’s ecclesiastical ...
Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher is seriously injured after falling and hitting his head while skiing in the French Alps.