modern history

When they pulled off the Lufthansa heist, it was the largest robbery in U.S. history. Four decades later, the few who survived the bloodbath have still evaded justice.

She represented American on the global stage and became the country's most beloved dancer despite having faced discrimination.

In a heart-wrenching tragedy nearly a decade old, the family of seemingly perfect PTA mom Diane Schuler still struggle to piece together what happened.

Small Japanese fishing villages have been visited by abandoned fishing vessels, some awash with dead bodies. But the reason why this may be is even more startling than their discovery.

“The specific aim of the research program was to examine the possibility of controlling the behavior of a dog, in an open field, by means of remotely triggering electrical stimulation of the brain."

Desperate to end a dry spell, the San Diego council hired self-proclaimed "moisture accelerator" Charles Hatfield to fill the Morena reservoir. He did much, much, more than that.

Before becoming the beloved engineer aboard the Starship Enterprise, Scotty was known to his World War II regiment as the "craziest pilot in the Canadian air force."

Her worshippers vary from those pushed to the fringes of society to occultists, drug lords, and prisoners – and the Santa Muerte has garnered more followers in the past decade than any religion before it.

Whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history's weirdest people put modern-day eccentricities to shame.

See why the Pearl Harbor attack carried out by the Japanese against the U.S. in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 was a "date which will live in infamy."

With as many as 20 million dead, China suffered more casualties during World War II than any other country except the Soviet Union.