Ambush in Texas: The Murder of Explorer La Salle
On March 19, 1687, French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was shot dead by his own mutinous men in the Texas wilderness.
Tales from the year 1687
The Night the Parthenon Blew Apart
On the evening of September 26, 1687, a Venetian mortar shell struck an Ottoman gunpowder store inside the Parthenon, shattering the 2,000-year-old temple.