The world is and was an amazing place in the universe and we have had some very interesting moments frozen in time. In these pages you will find loads of history trivia to amuse yourself and your friends. Below is a small sample of what you will find within. I hope you enjoy yourself while you are here...

When 34-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963, it became the site of the largest crowd ever assembled to date to hear a speech in America. More than 200,000 people gathered as close as they could near the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., where Dr. King spoke.

Someone maliciously shouted "Fire!" at a copper miners' Christmas party in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913. Panic ensued and 72 lives — mostly children's — were lost.

The first military airplane pilot in the United States was Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge. He was killed in a 1908 plane crash when Orville Wright lost control of their airplane at an altitude of 75 feet.

The first Viking reached Iceland in 861 A.D., he was called Ingolf. By 874 A.D., the first Viking settlers arrived in Iceland.

The Intifada was a revolt that began in December 1987 by Palestinian Arabs to protest Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “Intifada” means literally “a shaking off.”