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Here's what happened on August 1! 1684: French explorer Sieur de La Salle set sail from France to establish a colony near the Mississippi River. Th...

1431: The British threatened Joan of Arc with being burned alive. She was a French military commander who wore men’s clothes and claimed to ...

New entries added to FactCite Biography for Beginners in 2019 Name Abstract Baird, Minnie (1945–) American handbag designer. Barnum...

1801: Secretary of State William Henry Seward was born in Florida, New York. He was a lawyer who served in the New York State Senate and ...

We have a torrent of new content that's just been released. Here are the pages that have been updated: J.R.R. Tolkien Florence Price Lorenzo de Me...

Here is what happened on May 9! 1502: Christopher Columbus began his last expedition to the New World. He went to Cape Honduras and ran int...

Here is what happened on May 2! 1519: Leonardo da Vinci died in Cloux, France. Da Vinci was an architect, civil engineer, painter, and more...

We updated our page on John Havlicek to include his recent passing. He is considered to have been one of the top 50 greatest basketball players of ...

Here is what happened on March 7! 1825: The University of Virginia opened. Located in Charlottesville, the school was founded by Thomas Jef...

Here's what happened on May 25th! 1787: The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia. The purpose of the convention was to create a Co...

Here's what happened on May 18th! 1804: After what is known as the most remarkable example of a coup d'état, which occurred in 1799, Napoleon I wa...

Here's what happened on April 27th! 1521: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed on the island of Mactan in the Philipines during a tribal skirmis...