Home to some of the most colourful stories in the rugby league game, few people know Henson Park in Marrickville is also the site of eight child drownings. The site used to be a brick pit and once it filled with rainwater, became a magnet for young boys. MORE: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
The portrait of a beautiful young French woman, visiting Australia as part of a major exhibition next year, has thrown out many tempting clues for art historians.
Australia’s first NFL recruit Colin Ridgway had a fair share of good luck during his life, but it ran out in tragic circumstances when he was shot dead in his Texas home in a murder that remains unsolved almost three decades later.
As the world lives in dire fear of a global pandemic starting from cases of coronavirus in China, we can still take some lessons from past outbreaks of disease.
While it didn’t win him any awards, Rutger Hauer gave the performance of his career to get out of the army, so that he would be free to become a professional actor
He was one of several assassins sent to kill the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but by hitting his mark he became infamous as the man who sparked a global conflict
The violently swirling waters below Niagara Falls tempted Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel, to try his luck in 1883. Unfortunately his skill was not enough
A Russian, American and Italian have blasted off into space on the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, in a fitting tribute to the Apollo 11 crew.
The intrepid was not prepared for the worldwide excitement when he and Tenzing Norgay made it to the summit of Mount Everest
As the world prepared to celebrate one of the greatest visions of his brother’s presidency, US senator Ted Kennedy was embroiled in a tragic controversy
“I can hear you!” Those four words turned a nation’s collective mourning into hope and joy as ski instructor Stuart Diver was found buried deep in the rubble of the Thredbo landslide that had taken the lives of 18 people, including his wife.
Pokie players at the Newcastle Workers Club suddenly saw their world go dark on December 28, 1989 as the building collapsed during a devastating earthquake
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