The Woodstock Music and Art Fair gets underway in a field in the small town of Bethel, New York. What began as “three days of peace and music” for an expected 50,000 concertgoers soon exploded into a ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

Among some Native American cultures in the southwestern United States, there are stories of a deity known as Kokopelli. A kachina, or spirit, Kokopelli is said to preside over fertility and ...

Gorbachev also ended the Soviet Union's seemingly endless war in Afghanistan, reduced Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe, and resolved not to use force when the Berlin Wall, which separated ...

Athelstan rose to become England’s first king in the early 10th century. But his journey to the throne was far from easy. Born to Edward the Elder and his mistress, Athelstan faced opposition due to ...

The allure of Prince’s music was undeniable. After skyrocketing to success in the 1980s thanks to his unique musical talents and provocative onstage presence, Prince cemented himself as one of the ...

For her part, Marie Antoinette was happy to have a girl. As her lady-in-waiting Madame Campon wrote in her memoirs, upon learning the sex of her baby after a difficult birth, Marie purportedly stated: ...

Soon-Yi Previn was adopted by Mia Farrow in 1977 and began an affair with Farrow's boyfriend Woody Allen in 1991 when she was 21 years old.

Philip Hamilton was born on January 22, 1782, in Albany, New York. That spring, Alexander Hamilton wrote to Richard Kidder Meade, an American Army officer, about how proud he was of his newborn son.