Coming from diverse backgrounds—including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Filipino—Asian American women served in important roles ranging from pilots and translators to factory workers and guerrilla fighters.
#AAPIHeritageMonth
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrated Victory in Europe Day on
#ThisDayInHistory
in 1945.
V-E Day celebrated the unconditional surrender of German forces to the Allies in World War II.
The Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames while approaching its mooring mast in New Jersey on
#ThisDayInHistory
in 1937. What caused this horrific disaster?
An estimated 52.2 million people tuned in for the final episode of “Friends” 20 years ago, on
#ThisDayInHistory
. Throughout the show’s run, its six stars maintained a famously unified front, ensuring that no one of them emerged as a dominating force onscreen and even negotiated…
A mysterious video of a missing Air Force Major resurfaces 60 years later. What really happened to Major Sam Logan? Find out Monday at 10/9c on a new episode of the
#ProofIsOutThere
Military Mysteries.
30 years ago, on
#ThisDayInHistory
, a rail tunnel under the English Channel officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age.
Today is
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
- also known as
#YomHaShoah
.
In the wake of the Holocaust, the Allies set up the camps throughout Europe to offer temporary homelands to traumatized populations. Yet amid the lingering trauma, residents found ways to strike new sparks of life.…
Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day; instead, it celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War.
A group of thirteen young people departed Washington, D.C.’s Greyhound Bus terminal bound for the south on
#ThisDayInHistory
in 1961. Their journey is peaceful at first, but the riders will meet with shocking violence on their way to New Orleans.
James Joseph Brown was born on
#ThisDayInHistory
in 1933. The revolutionary musical figure changed the course of 20th-century pop music and crowned himself “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.”
The Italian philosopher and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli was born on
#ThisDayInHistory
in 1469. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, he became one of the fathers of modern political theory.
It is mind-boggling to think about the impact that Walt Disney's innovations have had on our lives.
How Disney Built America airs Sundays at 10/9c.
#HowDisneyBuiltAmerica