AS a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agent made his way onto the roof of a building in the large compound in Waco, a volley of bullets ripped through the wall beside him. A TV camera captured the moment he was hit and crumpled on the roof.
ON a nondescript wall at the intersection of Essex and Harrington streets in the city, once known locally as “Gallows Hill”, is a plaque commemorating the first execution of a convict, 230 years ago today.
DARIA Xavier, 16, was possibly perusing results from early races when disaster befell Hong Kong’s Derby Day races in 1918.
SOUTHERN Democrat Andrew Johnson 150 years ago was the first US president to be impeached, for treatment of former slaves.
BOARDING house, hotel, private home, hospital for World War I diggers, sly grog venue and convalescent unit, locals are concerned a piece of Dolls Point history will be lost.
If Aussie star Jason Day can win the US Masters this weekend he will become only the 21st non-American to win the historic tournament.
It was an Australian runner who almost stole the spotlight during the running of the modern Olympic Games’ first marathon — for all the wrong reasons.
WHEN a pub in Newport ousted one of Australia’s favourite beers they took on the weight of Australian beer drinking history
WALT Disney was enthralled with his most menacing evil character, created by Lucille La Verne. But while audiences fell for the beautiful heroine, Snow White, 80 years later it is her evil adversary that has stolen the limelight.
HE was one half of the celebrated British comedy team, but much of the brilliance of late, great Ronnie Corbett was his play on words.
THE Southern Stars women’s cricket team owe a debt of gratitude to a violin and piano-playing schoolteacher from Tasmania.
To the world she was a cute, youthful, blue-eyed Hollywood darling, but away from the camera Patty Duke’s life was beset by lies, heartbreak and scandal
A piece of architectural history has finally come home to Sydney, as a tapestry commissioned by Joern Utzon takes its place in the Opera House
Laurence ‘Larry’ Foley’s success as a boxer and gang leader was a far cry from the religious life he was originally thought destined for
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