November 3, 1944 - The first of 9,000 Japanese balloon bombs was launched on Nov. 3, 1944. The Japanese government was hoping to set fires and cause casualties during World War Two. Parts of five ...

In the final years of World War II, Japan launched one of the strangest and most ambitious attacks in military history - thousands of hydrogen balloons carrying bombs across the Pacific Ocean.

On May 14, 1948, longtime dean of the school of education at the University of Oregon, Henry Davidson Sheldon, died.

Account of balloon bomb attacks on the West Coast of the United States during World War II and the role of paleontologists from the United States National Museum and United States Geological Survey in ...

Peaceful protests were staged by the NAACP Youth Council at Peony Park until it was open to all paying visitors later that year. Five people were killed and about 200 people were injured. Hundreds ...