This Day in Alternate History

Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, was born the only legitimate child of famed poet Lord Byron and Anne Milbanke, 11 th Baroness...

Hearing gunfire, some 90 Native American warriors from the Wampanoag tribe followed their chief Massasoit to investigate the happenings...

Having lasted over six months since April, the third modern Olympic Games would be the longest ever held. It was packed with memorable ...

One week after his own death, Thomas Edison proved himself once more to be an incredible inventor. Using a device he had worked on in s...

On October 2, 1780, British Army officer Major John André was due to be hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York. In the morning, André was ...

Although growing up in rural Russian Empire and suffering partial deafness due to scarlet fever at age ten, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky woul...