Nola Ochs wanted to study history, but the 95-year-old Kansas woman made it herself when she graduated from university, becoming the world’s oldest recipient to date of a bachelor’s degree.
On Saturday, Ochs, born in 1911, garnered a standing ovation from her classmates at Fort Hays State University when she received her degree in general studies [...]

It’s safe to say Elna Marie Johnson will never forget her pen pal’s birthday. Johnson, 71, who has lived in Klamath Falls for 43 years, was living in Colorado in 1947 when she spotted a notice in a newspaper that circulated in the Sunday schools of Lutheran churches.
The notice said a 10-year-old Michigan girl named [...]

On May 16, 1868, the United States Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. (Johnson was acquitted of all charges.) (Go to article.)
1770 Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was [...]