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The star of ‘I Love Lucy’ was also a pioneering force behind the camera. Lucille Ball has knives thrown at her in the television series 'I Love Lucy', 1951.

The Columbian Exchange transformed the chile pepper into a sought-after food crop around the world. A variety of chilis and peppers are seen during 2021 Hot & Spicy Festival in Beijing. Chiles spread from the Americas to the rest of the world in the 16th and 17th centuries.

These five major events in the nation’s capital brought diverse groups of Americans together in the name of change. Jean-Louis Atlan/Sygma via Getty Images Published: October 09, 2026Last Updated: October 09, 2026 While it is now known as the site of some of the most iconic marches and demonstrations in American history, Washington, D.C.’s National Mall of the 1800s was quite different.

These novels helped define King’s career and broaden the possibilities and popularity of horror fiction. Stephen King signs copies of 'Cujo,' 'Salem's Lot' and other books at a book signing party in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, circa 1976. Photo by Buddy Mays/Corbis via Getty Images Published: October 09, 2026Last Updated: October 09, 2026 Horror is often dismissed as a genre of cheap thrills. Yet across dozens of novels and story collections, Stephen King has challenged that assumption.

A powerful El Niño triggered devastating droughts and famines around the world, leaving millions dead in one of history’s worst climate disasters. Getty Images Published: October 08, 2026Last Updated: October 08, 2026 It started with a failed monsoon season in India in the winter of 1875-1876. Then the rains didn’t come the following summer, either. Crops withered in the scorched and cracked earth, and grain stores dwindled.

Investigating the Tunguska Blast The event is named after Siberia’s Tunguska River that's in a region so remote that almost no one lived there in 1908 and few people live there today. Gasperini traveled to the area in 1999 and was struck by its isolation. “The overwhelming sensation was that I had reached the end of the world,” he says. In fact, the first reports that something big had happened in June 1908 didn’t appear in Russian newspapers until a few weeks later.

Re-creations of famous landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Stonehenge can be found across the United States. Perry Gerenday/Getty Images Published: October 08, 2026Last Updated: October 08, 2026 People travel to Europe for the history, culture and cuisines as well as the iconic landmarks found throughout the continent.

Mrs. O’Leary and her cow have been unfairly blamed for more than 150 years. The Great Chicago Fire, as depicted in a lithograph, October 8, 1871. Universal Images Group via Getty Published: October 05, 2026Last Updated: October 05, 2026 The Great Chicago Fire raged for two days in October 1871, killing 300 Chicagoans, leveling 17,000 buildings and leaving more than 100,000 people homeless.

Could Noah’s Ark Be Identified? The hunt for traces of the Ark is ongoing. In 2026, researchers began drilling at the Durupınar Formation, a boat-shaped geological feature about 20 miles south of Mount Ararat, collecting hundreds of core samples for laboratory analysis. But even the discovery of an ancient wooden vessel would not necessarily solve the mystery.

Built from loose rocks across the Arabian desert, thousands of structures appear to have been used for ritual animal offerings about 7,000 years ago. Mustatils are massive rectangular sandstone structures found across a wide swath of territory in northwest Saudi Arabia. Kennedy M, Strolin L, McMahon J, Abahussain A, Alqaibari A, Alshehri N, et al.