The Sons of Liberty destroy a shipment of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the Tea Act, setting the stage for the American Revolutionary War.
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
On February 24, 1868, US President Andrew Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives for removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office.
The task of drafting a declaration of independence that will express the prevailing sentiment of a politically diversified population faces the Continental Congress.
On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Army surprised the Texians and Tejanos and as the defenders saw it, the Alamo was the key to the defense of Texas.
The French artillery officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, initiating a political scandal that rocks the Third Republic.
Rudolf Hess escapes from Germany on May 10, 1941 and parachuted to safety in Scotland. He is convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and imprisoned in Spandau Prison in West Berlin.