Brian Hand

1987 Stock Market Crash

With the recent passing of the 21st anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash (Monday, October 19, 1987) and all the turmoil in the markets over... Read more

Siege of Kut

British Army at Kut-El-Amara Surrenders After 143 Days' Siege Relief Army of 90,000 from India Fails to Unite with Gen. Townshend's... Read more

Louisiana is the 18th State Admitted to the Union

The Territory of Orleans was established by the Act of March 26, 1804 and was effective October 1, 1804. It remained a Territory until... Read more

John Dillinger Added to the U.S. Department of Justice Wanted List

Statue of Liberty Dedicated

The Statue of Liberty National Monument officially celebrated her 100th birthday on October 28, 1986. The people of France gave the Statue to the... Read more

Utah is the 45th State Admitted to the Union

The Utah constitution was adopted November 5, 1895, by a vote of 31,305 to 7,607. On January 4, 1896, the president of the United States issued a... Read more

Russians Repel Hindenberg's Two Invasions While Fighting Austrians in Galicia (Poland)

Russian Forces, 2,000,000 Grand Duke Nicholas, Generalissimo General Russky General Brusiloff General Dmitrieff General Plehve General... Read more

Third Assault on Warsaw

Russian Force, 100,000 General Russky German Force, 150,000 Gen. Mackensen Hindenberg, on February 1, 1915, launched his third drive on... Read more

Russians Drive Austrians Out of Galicia and Across Carpathians

Russian Forces, 1,500,000 Grand Duke Nicholas, Generalissimo General Yanushkevitch, Chief-of-Staff First Army Group General... Read more

Battles of Dunajec, Przemysl, Krasnik and Przasnysz, and the Evacuations of Warsaw and Fort Grodno

Russian Forces, 2,500,000 Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief General Yanushkevitch, Chief of Staff General Ivanoff General... Read more

Battle of Augustowa

Russian Army, 250,000 General Russky German Army, 400,000 General von Schubert General von Morgen General von Hindenberg Hinenberg... Read more

Russia Grapples with Germany and Austria on 1000-Mile Front - The Longest Battle Line in History

Russian Forces, 500,000 Grand Duke Nicholas, Generalissimo Army of the Niemen, Gen. SamsonoíT Army of the Narew, Gen. Rennenkampf Cavalry... Read more

Two Russian Armies Invade East Prussia

Russian Northwest Forces, 450,000 General Gilinsky, Commander-in-Chief First Army—General Rennenkampf, Commander General Pflug General... Read more

Wright Brothers First Flight

On December 17, 1903, two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, named Wilbur and Orville Wright, were successful in flying an airplane they built. Their... Read more

China tests its first atomic bomb to become the world's fifth nuclear power, code named 596

596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was... Read more

War of the Worlds Airs

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. From the Meridian Room in the Park Plaza in New York City, we bring you the music of Ramon Raquello and his... Read more

Wham Paymaster Robbery

One of the most notorious crimes of the Southwest, possibly the only instance of an attack by white men upon American soldiery, since has been... Read more

Arizona is the 48th State Admitted to the Union

Arizona became a U.S. state on February 14, 1912. The major result being the end to the territorial colonization of Continental America. Arizona... Read more

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a gunfight that occurred at about 3 P.M. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory,... Read more

Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death

Today, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal for the massacres committed by his regime in the town of... Read more

California 66 Revue - Opening night at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ

The opening show at Maxwell's was fabulous. Of course, I am biased, but I have to admit that I had a little bit of doubt as to whether a Love tour... Read more

Thomas R. Frieden Becomes Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., today became the 16th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator for the... Read more

More than 25,000 Swine Flu Cases According to the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) says swine flu has now spread to 73 countries, with 139 deaths from the disease since it was first detected in... Read more

CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu

Joe Quimby: Good afternoon to everybody. I’m Joe Quimby from the Division of Media Relations here at the CDC. Thank you all for joining us. With... Read more

CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu

Dave Daigle: Thank you Angie, this is Dave Daigle from CDC Media Relations. Today, we'll update the emergency response of the novel H1N1 flu... Read more