In a long-forgotten passage from civil rights history, Elizabeth Jennings fought for her and other "colored persons'" rights to ride streetcars in New York City after she had been thrown off of one in July 1854.

A wealth of information via social media amid the Mumbai attacks only adds confusion to a chaotic situation, particularly within the ranks of the Indian government.

Mumbai is under bloody attack and India's National Security Guard, nicknamed the Black Cats, were called to stop the chaos, operating under four main directives.

After the Spetznaz eliminates their Chechen separatist captors a gross and tragic oversight ends up killing many of the hostages.

Russia's elite counter-terrorism force, Spetsnaz Group Alfa, face a near-impossible task: to save 800 people held hostage by 40 heavily-armed Chechen rebels and suicide bombers inside a Moscow theater packed with explosives.

After intelligence gathering on the occupiers of the mystery residence in Abbottabad is complete Head of JSOC Admiral McRaven offers three plans of attack, with the direct commando approach eventually becoming the best choice.

After a decade of searching, the CIA begins to activate agents on the ground after they identify in a mysterious compound in Pakistan an HVT, a High Value Target, that they believe is Osama Bin Laden.

The SAS conduct a bloody albeit successful raid on a compound housing Al Qaeda militants and important senior leaders in a bid to get closer to Al-Zarqawi.

In one of the most famous raids ever, the Unit storms the Ugandan airport at Entebbe to free hostages.

The Unit, the "long arm of the IDF," is the most lethally trained force that Israel possesses.

A surveillance team has been sent in by the British army to scout out the location of their captured soldiers and to either wait for back-up or withdraw.

Operation Certain Death gets under way to rescue British soldiers from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone, Africa is engulfed in civil war, and British soldiers have been captured by the West Side Boys, who are led by a schizophrenic leader.

During the British raid, the once feared West Side Boys' leader was found in a surprsing place.

Tales originating from a shiphand's diary from the early 18th century describe where a cache of booty, including the fabled Treasure of Lima, has been buried on Cocos Island, and a German adventurer is intent on finding it.

For 2000 years, explorers have searched for the ancient boat that, according to The Bible, saved Noah from a great flood. But does the ark actually exist? Some modern ark hunters believe it does, and that it is in modern-day Turkey.