On Oct. 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American to become a saint.

Capt. William G. Fluent operated the ‘Altonian’ ferryboat on the Alton riverfront for many years along the Mississippi River.

Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, and was the sixth child of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine A brooch containing a lock of Lord Nelson's hair that was given to ...

In a different realm, October 21, 1978, saw the founding of the first national park in the world, Yellowstone National Park, ...

A former museum dedicated to Norfolk naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson is to be turned into a four-bed home and gallery after ...

A memorial service marking the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar took place on Friday at the Trafalgar Cemetery. The battle took place on October 21, 1805, 219 years ago, with Admiral Lord ...

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The service will take place at the Nelson monument at Portsdown Hill on Monday (October 21). Annual commemorations, led by ...

Born on 29 September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the sixth of the 11 children of a clergyman. He joined the navy aged 12, on a ship commanded by a maternal uncle.

But his fame, and his merit as a leader, are rightly eclipsed by that of the admiral immortalized in London’s Trafalgar Square, Horatio Nelson. Nelson's column, London Source: Gregory S / Pexels ...

A former museum dedicated to Norfolk naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson in Great Yarmouth could be turned into a four-bed house.

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the ...