This episode takes place on April 26, 1865 on the day that John Wilkes Booth was captured, hiding in by a barn in Virginia, after assassinating President Lincoln.
One of history's foremost examples of the effectiveness of passive resistance, as a thin little man in a white loincloth breaks the back of India's 5000 year old caste system by fasting.
Sent by Dr. Warren across the Charles River in Charlestown, silversmith Paul Revere races to warn the colonists of the movements of the British troops in the Revolutionary war.
Before the afternoon session of the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland, the Ethiopian emperor delivers his famous speech against the Italian aggression in his land. The scenes in which he appears are actual film clips from the historic day.
The course of the Civil War was altered on April 18, 1861, when the famed general resolved to lead the Confederate armies, rather than the forces of the North.