February 20, 1962 – Cape Canaveral, Florida: Imagine being strapped into a small capsule atop a 75-foot Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Well aware that in the past, several previous launches had exploded on take-off, you trust that engineers have the...
October 2, 1919 – The White House, Washington, D.C.: When Edith walked into their private bathroom at the White House, she found her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, lying on the floor. She immediately summoned the White House doctor. Upon examining Wilson, the...
March 11, 1812 – Serampore, India: The fire started in the print shop in the late afternoon and the staff was only able to save a few financial records. The shop was a total loss. The fire destroyed many Indian Bible translations, dictionaries in several Indian...
January 1776 – Berkshire Mountains – Upstate New York: The colonial soldiers and volunteers refused to go any further. The mission was too difficult and dangerous. Colonel Henry Knox, a 25-year-old former Boston bookstore owner, pleaded and begged the men to continue....
July 26, 1943 – Bryan Air Field – Bryan, Texas: The alcohol and testosterone flowed freely that night at the Officer’s Club bar. The worthiness of the AT-6 trainer airplane and the hurricane churning off the Texas coast were the hot topics of conversation. The British...
September 7, 1854 – London, England: The most dreaded disease of the age, cholera, was back with a vengeance. There were more caskets than the horse-drawn hearse wagons could carry away. In Soho, one of London’s poorest neighborhoods, more than 500 people died in five...
