The two leaders are looking to project themselves as a counterweight to the U.S.-led bloc, as China growingly shows support for Moscow in its dispute with Ukraine.
On Aug. 26, 1839, the Navy brig Washington seized the Spanish slaver Amistad near Montauk Point, New York, sparking one of the most important anti-slavery cases in American history.
One hundred years ago, in the early morning hours of May 9, 1919, a watchstander at the Orleans Lifesaving Station saw something he’d never seen before.