James Joseph Brown was born on #thisdayinhistory in 1933. The revolutionary musical figure changed the course of 20th-century pop music and crowned himself “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.”

A group of thirteen young people departed Washington, D.C.’s Greyhound Bus terminal bound for the south on #thisdayinhistory in 1961. Their journey is peaceful at first, but the riders will meet with shocking violence on their way to New Orleans.

A woman selling Irish lace aboard the Titanic on April 11th, 1912.

One of the first portable radio in 1923.