In 1927 this aviator became the first person to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
In 1909 the Lincoln penny replaced this one, which had been in circulation for 50 years
In 1770 Robert Treat Paine prosecuted the British troops indicted for murder in this incident
In 1776 Sgt. Ezra Lee led the first known attack in one of these submersible crafts
This territory, known for its coal mines, voted to become part of Germany in 1935
On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse
As a child, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was nicknamed this, meaning "little boot"
The first 18 years of this French king's reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin
In 1524 this Florentine navigator became the first European to visit the New York area
In the 1970s, as many as 18,000 troops from this Caribbean country fought in Angola's civil war