This battleship on which the WWII Japanese surrender terms were signed saw combat during the Gulf War
The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789
The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867
This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle
On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her
1 of the 3 former Soviet satellites that joined NATO in 1999
This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621
More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea