1 Carol Armstrong found bag in Ohio house after husband Neil, the first man to walk on the moon, died in 2012.  The so-called McDivitt purse contained priceless Apollo 11 items such as a camera that filmed moon descent.
Originally named Araminta, or Minty, Harriet Tubman was born in early 1822 on the plantation of Anthony Thompson, south of Madison in Dorchester County, Maryland.Tubman was the fifth of nine children of Harriet Rit Green and Benjamin Ross, both slaves.ubman, Harriet Ross (1822-1913). Born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Tubman gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian.
On this day in 1786, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, the younger of the two Brothers Grimm, is born in Hanau, Germany. As young men, the two brothers assisted friends in compiling an important collection of folk lyrics. One of the authors, impressed by the brothersâ work, suggested they publish some of the...