Born on This Day
Nez Perce chief who resisted U.S. forces and led his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains.
Inventor of the first practical telephone who also helped develop wireless telephones, metal detectors and hydrofoil planes.
American track star who overcame asthma to win six medals (including three gold) at four different Olympic games.
After a demoralizing defeat in the Crimean War and a surge of peasant revolts, Czar Alexander II decides Russia needs modernizing. His first priority: issuing a Liberation Manifesto, freeing the empire's 23 million serfs.
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