As proceedings began, Anna’s mother, Marianne Bachmeier, smuggled a small Beretta pistol into the courtroom, aimed it at Grabowski’s back, and fired seven times.

In February 2016, Luna, a 1-year-old German shepherd, disappeared from a fishing boat off the California coast. Presumed drowned, she was mourned as lost to the ocean.

On April 27, 1920, Polish forces struck a decisive blow near Chernobyl during the Polish-Soviet War. What began as part of Poland’s march toward Kyiv became one of the most remarkable inland naval victories of the 20th century, led by an improvised river fleet.

In 1898, Edward William Barton-Wright, an English engineer recently returned from Japan, introduced London to something it had never seen before: Bartitsu.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At 19 months old, she fell ill with what doctors then called “acute congestion of the stomach and brain,” likely meningitis or scarlet fever.

For centuries, the samurai warrior has been seen as male, his name etched into the annals of Japan’s military past. Yet buried in the chronicles are accounts of women who fought with skill and bravery.

At the southernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island lies Slope Point, a remote, windswept headland where nature visibly bends to the will of the weather.

In 1243, archaeologists uncovered a tomb in China containing a pair of tiny embroidered shoes. Mistaken for doll accessories, they were actually real “lotus shoes” worn by Lady Huang Sheng, who lived during the Song dynasty.

For centuries, Indigenous nations across North America communicated not only through spoken languages but also through a richly developed sign language system known today as Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), or more commonly, Hand Talk.

In September 1857, the SS Central America, a 280-foot steamship carrying passengers and gold between Central America and the U.S. East Coast, sank during a Category 2 hurricane off the coast of North Carolina.