Harrison Ruffin Tyler was the son of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, the 13th of President John Tyler's 15 children.

Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, a 24-year-old Palestinian man named Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Charles Francis Hall spent a decade exploring Greenland and studying Inuit culture, but during his final expedition in 1871, he suddenly fell ill after drinking a cup of coffee and accused his crew of poisoning him before he died.

This five-inch circular loaf was made with emmer wheat and baked quickly at 300 degrees Fahrenheit, giving it a crisp crust and a soft interior — and now bakers have recreated thousands of edible versions of this millennia-old bread.

The bone tools are between 14,000 and 20,000 years old and were collected from whales stranded along the Bay of Biscay.

Dorothy Counts became the first Black student at Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 4, 1957, but she had to withdraw after just a week due to the vicious racism she faced.

Believed to have been used in fertility rituals by the Tlacotepehua people sometime during the Postclassic Period that spanned 950 to 1520 C.E., these artifacts included perforated snail shells, stone disks, and a collection of bracelets that had been wrapped around the cave's stalagmites centuries ago, just "like a ring on a finger."

From the late-night cafes of Greenwich Village to jazz concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, 1950s New York City was a thrilling place to be.

Researchers even found traces of what's believed to be soot-based ink still sitting on the points of these stone tools, remnants of a tattooing process that took place sometime during the Classic period that spanned 250 to 900 C.E.

Large prehistoric animals like the giant ground sloth were commonly found in the area that's now Texas during the Ice Age, which ended 11,700 years ago.

Archaeologists found a number of prehistoric fishing tools at a site along the Makran coast on the Sea of Oman, revealing how early humans adapted to their environment.