Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse was an American creator of a single-wire telegraph system and the Morse code. He was born on April 27, 1791 in this building on Main Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Cliff House and Seal Rocks

An outing at the beach in San Francisco, 1902

Presidents in Paris

President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy are pictured above with French President Charles deGaulle on May 31, 1961 in Paris, France in front of the Palais de l'Elysee.

Postcard From The Hindenburg

This pictured postcard was scheduled to be carried on a flight that was cancelled over Germany on May 1, 1937. It was then flown on the airship Hindenburg that left for America on May 3rd, and dropped several hours later in a weighed down mail bag over Frankfurt. Three days later, The Hindenburg was destroyed by fire as it attempted its' landing at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Monica Seles

Tennis star Monica Seles was competing in the Citizen Cup tournament in Hamburg, Germany on April 30, 1993 when a distraught fan suddenly made his way onto the court and stabbed her. Seles is shown being attended to just seconds after the attack. The trauma of the attack would keep Seles off the court for over two years.

Presidential Resignation

On August 9, 1974 Richard Milhouse Nixon, the nation's 37th President, resigned because of the Watergate Scandal, making him the only President to resign while still in office. Nixon and his wife Pat are seen here being escorted to a waiting helicopter by his soon to be successor, Gerald Ford and his wife Betty. Ford would take the oath of office shortly after Nixon's departure.

Soviet Space Program

In 1963 a former cotton mill worker and parachute jumper named Valentina Tereskhkova became the first woman in space by logging almost three days in orbit on board Vostok 6.

John F. Kennedy

Senator John F. Kennedy is pictured in 1959 in his Senate Office in Washington.

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman is pictured in France during World War I in 1918. Truman later became the 33rd President of the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt

11 year old Theodore Roosevelt pictured in 1870 while on a visit to Paris. Roosevelt would go on to become the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.