In 1961, Freedom Riders rode between cities in the American South to test federal laws banning racial segregation. They were arrested, threatened, and beaten senseless.

"There was so much going in that time period. People were literally starving to death and meanwhile, someone was bringing this home for their spouse."

“The only good thing about it is it keeps Dillinger’s name in the news.”

The 'Sultana' was carrying some 2,000 freed Union soldiers from Confederate prisons when three of its four boilers blew, sending the ship into flame and chaos.

Scientists involved in the study will inject human cells into rat and mice embryos. Researchers plan to follow the development of the resulting creatures' organs over the course of two years after the baby hybrids are born.

In the mid-1800s, Ada Lovelace saw the full potential of computers more than a century before they were a reality.

For roughly seven months in what's known as the Prague Spring, Czechoslovakia exercised a more lax form of communism, provoking the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact to invade in August 1968.

A toxicology report has not yet been released on the deceased birds, but veterinarian professionals suspect poisoning of some kind.

"It seems to be a case of a couple of lovebirds who have made the wrong connection, unfortunately," a rep for the power company said.

Only 100 or so members of the Awá-Guajá tribe remain within the deepest reaches of the Amazon today.