Thomas Edison's 1879 breakthrough with a long-lasting carbon filament bulb revolutionized electric lighting, moving it from experimental to practical. This innovation enabled homes, businesses, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first longhorn cattle drive came through Fort Worth in 1866 on the way north to the railhead in Kansas – Abilene first, later ...

It's hard for us to imagine now, but there was a time when people simply didn't know what was in the Arctic circle. "Whether it was ice, whether it was sea, whether it was land, whether there was a ...

The 1879 famine may not have seen the same levels of death and emigration as the Great Hunger (known in Irish as an Gorta Mór) just three decades earlier, but Ireland endured raging hunger that ...

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Germany. Early in his life, he demonstrated passion for music and science; in 1896, he began studying physics and mathematics at the Swiss Federal ...

On Jan. 22, 1879, an annular solar eclipse passed over parts of South America and Africa. The same day, the second major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War was fought at the foot of a hill called Isandlwana ...