The Hindenburg disaster became one of the most famous tragedies in aviation history after the massive German airship caught ...

LAKEHURST, N.J. (WCSC) — The airship Hindenburg burst into flames on this day in 1937 as it attempted to land at the naval air station in Lakehurst, killing more than 30 of the airship’s 97 passengers ...

Explore the inside of the Hindenburg, the largest airship ever built, and witness the events leading up to its tragic accident in 1937. This video highlights the layout of the ship, including the A ...

Werner Franz, believed to be the last surviving crew member of the German airship Hindenburg that crashed 77 years ago, has died. He was 92. Franz was a 14-year-old cabin boy when the hydrogen-filled ...

Almost 50 years after he first got his hands on a computer, the Oxford professor still believes in the power of technology. Can his beloved game theory explain why Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs ...

The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that ...

THE latest and largest German airship, Hindenburg, was destroyed by fire while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the evening of May 6. This was the terminal point of her first voyage of the ...

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Works Progress Administration to provide work for the unemployed.

Dirigibles still evoke vivid memories of disaster—the stunning tragedies of the 1930s that destroyed Germany’s Hindenburg, Britain’s R-101, and America’s Akron and Macon, and caused great loss of life ...

VIDEO: This Day in History: May 2, 1963: 1,000+ students march against segregation in Birmingham ...

Hello, as I told you yesterday, we are entering a very interesting week, beginning with President Maria, who has already made her move and whom my malicious colleagues have started calling “Red Maria” ...