HISTORY

The day after Sharon Tate’s 1969 murder, Charles Manson’s cult struck again, killing the LaBiancas in their Los Angeles home. Almost 50 years later, the LaBiancas' house just got bought by a master ghost-hunter.

Joyce Stratman lost her wallet in the walls of her high school locker room when she was a teenager. Six decades later, it's finally been returned.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of our country's most stylish and elegant icons for decades, but she was no empty, aloof beauty.

An artist and sculptor, Anna Coleman Ladd offered her talents to soldiers who had been badly disfigured fighting in World War I. Her masks helped restore their appearance and their self-confidence.

A week before Germany invaded Poland, Hitler organized and then called off a series of border skirmishes. This telegram shows that one Nazi didn’t get the memo.

If you have ever visited a museum, you've probably noticed that many ancient sculptures are missing their noses, arms, heads, and other appendages.

Thanks to the hit HBO miniseries, the Chernobyl exclusion zone is more popular than ever. Now Ukraine has a plan to open it up to more tourists.

Ernest Hemingway was a titan of 20th-century literature. (He was also allegedly a KGB spy, but he wasn't very good at it.)

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history in 1969 when they became the first people to step foot on the Moon. Ten others have followed in their footsteps.

Thomas Jefferson thought mastodons might still be lurking somewhere out West—and he was determined to find them.

Tune into CBS’s live stream of its 1969 coverage of the Apollo 11 mission launch, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.

Alan Turing, the World War II codebreaker whose life was spotlighted in the film 'The Imitation Game,' is being honored with a prominent spot on the Bank of England's £50 banknote.