On November 10th, 1951 the first direct dial long-distance telephone call took place between the Mayors of Englewood, New Jersey and Alameda, California.

On November 1st, 1955, the regularly scheduled flight 629 from Denver to Portland was destroyed by a time bomb, stowed by a passenger’s estranged son, taking the lives of 44 innocent bystanders.

A smoker from the age of 5, olympic running was an unlikely path for Louis Zamperini. Unfortunately, too was surviving a plane crash, 47 days at sea, and war camps, but these were real scenarios for Louis.

The Trail of Tears, when the US government forced 60,000 Native Americans to relocate from their homelands in the American Southeast to new lands west of the Mississippi River.

The birth and death of the Ford Edsel, known as the largest flop in automotive history costing the Ford Motor Company more than $6 billion in today’s dollar.

The 25th US President, William McKinley, was the third sitting president to lose his life to an assassin’s bullet. Who assassinated President McKinley and more.

After the roaring 20s, overconfidence led many to take on highly leveraged positions which inflated prices to unsustainable levels. Black Monday, Run on Banks, and The Great Depression all followed.