Everyone hopes to go Las Vegas and come back a millionaire by playing slots or endless games of poker. Some people, however, have different ideas as to how to make bank. Today we will tell you about these people who committed the most infamous heists all over map of casinos in Las Vegas
Half of these robberies occurred in the...
Category: Interesting events for the 20th century
What is Watergate
Watergate is the name of the scandal in which the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Watergate Office Building were broken into by people associated with president Richard Nixon. The event took place in June 1972, but the criminal investigation continued for another two years and ended with Nixon's resignation.
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Men on the Moon
‘That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind’, said Neil Armstrong when he first stepped on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. This sentence still rings in our years more than 50 years later.
Indeed, Americans view this event as one of the most...
A Tragic Day
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. He became the fourth president to be assassinated while in office (after Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley).
While the four preceding cases were almost immediately resolved, Kennedy’s assassination left...
Who is Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was a writer and philosopher, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire on February 2, 1905. Her family was wealthy, but after the Bolshevik Revolution, her father’s business was confiscated and they struggled financially.
Alisa studied history at the Petrograd State University, although she was purged for a...
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This blog will discuss the most important events that happened in the United States in the 20th century. We are impatient to tell you everything that our research brought to life, and we hope you are just as impatient...