Millvina Dean, last survivor of the Titanic, was forced to sell her Titanic memorabilia to pay health bills at 96
After failing to assassinate Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, a conspirator gulped cyanide, jumped into a four-inch river
The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein”
Olivia de Havilland, who turns 101, helped Clark Gable through his hardest scene in “Gone With the Wind”
Louis Cartier created the wristwatch so that aviator Santos-Dumont could check his performance while flying over Paris