On September 11, 1857, John D. Lee under supposed orders from Brigham Young, ordered his fellow Mormons and Paiute Indians to execute 120 American pioneers heading west.

Flappers of the roaring 20s were known for their awe-inspiring behaviors like smoking, drinking, bobbing their hair, and wearing revealing dresses.

Although nearly one out of three US Presidents have come under scrutiny by Congress for the potential to be impeached, four Presidents in history have been formally charged with impeachment.

By 1943, as WWII dragged on, women filled the labor vacuum with 20 million women going to work outside the home. Many took up physically demanding and dangerous jobs as the ultimate form of patriotism.

Built in 1937, once the longest main suspension bridge in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge was originally planned to be another color and its toll has experienced a 3,500% price increase.

After Britain levied a tax on imports of tea into the US colonies, Americans protested with the Boston Tea Party where 45 tons of tea was dumped into Boston Harbor over three hours.

West African slave, Onesimus, told his interested owner, Cotton Mather about the African and Asian variolation practice of introducing a small amount of pox discharge into the body for inoculation, saving many Bostonians from small pox.