Inside The Fiery Death Of John Wilkes Booth, The Inspiring Heroism Of Teddy Roosevelt's Son, And More From History Uncovered

[History Uncovered]( [Wooden Bird Bought At Auction For $100 Turns Out To Be Priceless Keepsake Once Owned By Anne Boleyn]( ["This could have been removed literally as Anne Boleyn was about to have her head cut off."]( [Inside The Fiery, Blood-Soaked Death Of John Wilkes Booth, The Man Who Assassinated Abraham Lincoln]( [Twelve days after killing the president, John Wilkes Booth holed up in a Virginia tobacco barn and refused to surrender until soldiers set it ablaze — then one of them shot him in the neck.]( [How A Tiny, Canvas-Wrapped Plane Made The World's First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight]( [The tiny, canvas-wrapped plane flew nonstop for 3,610 miles over the course of 33.5 hours using only a single 220-horsepower engine, about the same as a modern sedan.]( [Why Some Believe That An Elusive Serial Killer Has Been Stalking Chicago's South Side For Over 20 Years]( [Dating back over two decades, more than 50 women have been killed by strangulation in Chicago, and they're almost all clustered in just two neighborhoods.]( [The Short, Inspiring Life Of Quentin Roosevelt, The Only American President's Son To Ever Be Killed In Combat]( [When Quentin Roosevelt was shot down behind enemy lines on July 14, 1918, German forces felt they owed the great fighter and the son of a president a military funeral — so they gave him one.]( [The Blood-Soaked True Story Of The Lufthansa Heist That 'Goodfellas' Didn't Have Time To Tell]( [More than a dozen mobsters successfully conspired to steal the modern equivalent of $22 million in what was the largest robbery in U.S. history, but after 40 years, only one man has ever served time for the crime.]( [The Messy History Of How The Constitution Was Written, From Deadbeat Delegates To Its Many Errors]( [It's practically a miracle that the document was completed at all.]( [Melting Glaciers In Norway Just Revealed 1,700-Year-Old Arrowheads At A Reindeer Hunting Site]( [In addition to the arrowheads, archaeologists found 40 stone hunting blinds that ancient hunters used to hide from reindeer.]( [Meet Marilyn Monroe's Long-Lost Half-Sister Who Lived A Quiet Life Away From The Spotlight]( [Berniece Baker Miracle said that when she finally met her sister, “We sat there like two people who had just fallen in love ... We were overwhelmed at finally getting to see each other.”]( [Inside The Rumble In The Jungle, The Epic Boxing Match Between Muhammad Ali And George Foreman]( [On October 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman met in the ring in Zaire for what would be the world's biggest sporting event.]( [Meet Manuelita Sáenz, The Latin American Revolutionary Who Became The 'Liberator's Liberator']( [She earned her nickname "Liberator's Liberator" after saving the life of Simón Bolívar — multiple times.]( [The Disturbing Story Of Charles Guiteau, The Troubled Writer Who Assassinated James Garfield]( ["My object in shooting Garfield again was not to make him suffer but on the contrary to save him from pain and unnecessary agony. I know that, for the sake of harmony in the Republican Party, I had to kill him."]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](