On March 5, 1770, British soldiers opened fire on a crowd, killing five men, including Crispus Attucks, who was of African American and Native American descent and was the first person to die in the massacre.
A suicide bombing at a wedding party in Kabul claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate has renewed fears about the growing threat posed by its thousands of fighters, as well as their ability to plot global attacks from a stronghold in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.