Lou Gehrig Falls to ALS: A Legend's Final Out
Lou Gehrig succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at age 37, just two years after his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium declared him the luckiest man on the face of the earth. His death permanently linked his name to the disease and transformed public awareness of ALS into a cause that still drives research funding decades later.
June 2, 1941
85 years ago
What Else Happened on June 2
Karl Nobiling didn't just shoot the Kaiser — he shot him twice, from a second-floor window in Berlin, loaded with birdshot. Wilhelm I was 81 years old and survi…
A teenage emperor grabbed a sword and marched into the street himself. Cao Mao, 20 years old, knew Sima Zhao controlled everything — the army, the court, his ow…
Vandal forces breached the walls of Rome, systematically stripping the city of its wealth and sacred treasures over fourteen days of relentless looting. This or…
The Caliphate of Córdoba was supposed to be untouchable. At its peak under Abd al-Rahman III, it was the most sophisticated state in Western Europe — libraries,…
Crusader forces under Bohemond of Taranto captured Antioch on June 3, 1098, after a seven-month siege during the First Crusade. The siege had reduced the Crusad…
Virginia's original charter didn't just claim a colony. It claimed a continent. Issued by James I in 1606 and expanded in 1609, the grant stretched from the Atl…
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