In 1981, a 17-year-old named Marcus Sarjeant, armed with a starting pistol, made headlines worldwide for an audacious act against the British monarchy.

Giovanni Battista Bugatti, better known as Mastro Titta, was born in 1779 in Rome.

In July 1958, amidst the heat and dust of Algeria near Jebel, soldiers from the French 13e demi-brigade de Légion étrangère stumbled upon a heartrending scene.

In August 2010, a small domestic flight became the scene of one of the most bizarre air accidents in history.

In the mid-18th century, France faced a daunting challenge: a high infant mortality rate, exacerbated by a lack of skilled midwives.

On September 16, 1976, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, alongside Senator Bob Dole, was on a campaign tour in upstate New York.

n the midst of World War II, on March 15, 1944, Finnish soldier Aimo Allan Koivunen was part of a ski patrol in the snowy expanse of Finnish Lapland.

In the mid-1990s, a seemingly ordinary teenager, David Hahn, embarked on an extraordinary and hazardous journey.

Nestled in the heart of Europe, Switzerland and Liechtenstein share not just borders but a history of peaceful, albeit sometimes unintentionally close, relations.

In the quiet hours of November 2013, a group of tipsy students in Bordeaux, France, embarked on an adventure that would soon capture the world’s attention.