Genelle Guzman-McMillan was hurrying down the stairs of the World Trade Center’s North Tower when the building collapsed around her, leaving her trapped for 27 hours before she was finally saved.Guideposts/YouTubeGenelle Guzman-McMillan survived for more than a day almost completely immobilized below the World Trade Center before she was rescued.
Inside the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Genelle Guzman-McMillan felt the building shake. She was working on the 64th floor at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and ran to the window to see what had happened.
After winning her freedom in 1856, Biddy Mason invested in large tracts of land in downtown L.A., and she used her growing fortune to assist the city’s poorest people.Born into slavery and illiterate all her life, Biddy Mason was nonetheless a clever woman who knew her rights. So when the man who owned her forced her to walk 1,700 miles behind a wagon train while carrying her newborn, Mason filed a petition for her freedom — and won.
After winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and upending Hitler's ideas about Aryan supremacy, Jesse Owens became one of the most legendary athletes in history.N.N./Wikimedia CommonsJesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
In 1936, Nazi Germany invited the world to Berlin for the Olympic Games. The Nazis hoped to legitimize their regime and showcase the athletic prowess of the Aryan “master race.
A nurse from Queens, New York, Marie Van Brittan Brown created the first video home security system in 1966, paving the way for the technology we use today. Marie Van Brittan Brown was a nurse living in Queens – until she became an inventor.
As a nurse living in Queens, Marie Van Brittan Brown was used to working the night shift. And in the 1960s, Brown’s husband, Albert, also worked unusual hours as an electronics technician.
When William Leonard Pickard was arrested by the DEA in November 2000, agents allegedly seized enough acid for 400 million trips from his missile silo lab in Kansas.DEAPickard was given two life sentences to be served at the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.
On Nov. 6, 2000, Kansas Highway Patrol pulled over a Buick LaSabre in a routine traffic stop. When the car came to a stop, its driver, 58-year-old Willliam Leonard Pickard ran from the scene and left behind drugs and other paraphernalia.