VJ Day marked the end of World War II in the Pacific, as Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, bringing an end to the war that ravaged the region.

Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as the country’s Prime Minister and later President for over five decades.

Valhalla is a hall in Norse mythology where the souls of brave warriors who died in battle were taken by the god Odin to live afterlife.

During the last ice age (120,000-11,700 years ago), early humans migrated and adapted to changing environments. They developed new tools and technologies to survive, laying the foundations for human civilizations. The ice age ended with a warming trend.

The Carolingian Renaissance brought an explosive rise in literature, arts, architecture, jurisprudence and efficient management, production, and a surplus economy during the early Middle Ages.

Established in 1624, New Amsterdam and New Netherland was a Dutch colony in North America, which lasted until 1664 when the British seized and reincorporated the land as New York City.

In 1835, a fictional writer Dr. Andrew Grant published in the New York Sun newspaper about having seen life on the moon through a new high-power telescope in South Africa. The popularity and global phenomena of the six articles would be known as the Great Moon Hoax of 1835.