Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces that the United States is withdrawing its offer of financial aid to Egypt to help with the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River.

Yarkon Water Project: A Lifeline Amid Israel's Ongoing Water Crisis

The agricultural chemist George Washington Carver, head of Alabama’s famed Tuskegee Institute, arrives in Dearborn, Michigan at the invitation of Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company.

Paris Métro: A Century of Innovation from 1900 to Today's Bustling Transit Line

On this day a group of determined women organized the first formal meeting in America to discuss women’s rights. It became known as the Seneca Falls Convention.

Historic S.S. Great Britain Returns to Bristol for Restoration After Over a Century Abandoned

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Pioneering the First Successful Steamship Across the Atlantic

After only nine days as the monarch of England, Lady Jane Grey is deposed in favor of her cousin Mary.

The great fire of Rome breaks out and destroys much of the city beginning on July 19 in the year 64.