Gettysburg

The Civil War's deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.

Today in History: Born on August 18

Daniel Webster, congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and secretary of state before the Civil War.

Joseph Glidden, inventor.

Daniel Hale Williams, physician who performed the first open heart surgery, founder of Chicago's Provident Hospital.

A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist (Winnie the Pooh).

Oliver Hardy, film comedian, one half of Laurel and Hardy.

Cary Grant, U.S. film actor (Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest).

Closer look at historical sources sheds doubt on whether infamous Chattanooga confrontation ever occurred

In August 1945, the U.S. dropped one of the deadliest weapons—two atomic bombs—on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki