The USS Nevada served in World War I and World War II and sat off Bikini Atoll in July 1946 during atomic bomb tests, ...

Loomis Hall, originally Academic Hall at Alton College, now houses the Alton Museum of History and Art.

On March 19, 2003, in a televised address, President George W. Bush announced that coalition forces had begun an invasion of ...

1931, Nevada Gov. Fred B. Balzar signed a measure ... members were killed when a Japanese dive bomber attacked the carrier USS Franklin near Japan. In 1953, the 25th Academy Awards ceremony ...

1976: Buckingham Palace announces that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage. On the same day, Paul Kossoff, guitarist with Free and Back Street Crawler dies ...

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...

Stewart, who swam a mile (1.6 kilometers) to shore after his lifeboat capsized. For almost 132 years the lake hid the wreckage. In July, explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

Wreckage from the storied USS Juneau, which was sunk by a Japanese torpedo during World War II, was finally discovered on March 17, 2018. On St. Patrick's Day 2018, a research team made the ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes MADISON, Wis. -- Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ...