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Scott Allsop
The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
The United States Supreme Court upheld the District Court’s ruling in Browder v. Gayle that segregation on public buses and transportation in Alabama was ...
Voters were asked whether they approved of the Nazi government’s withdrawal from the League of Nations. Official results indicated overwhelming support, with approximately 95% of voters casting ballots in favour of the ...
The Italian forces were well-equipped with modern weaponry including tanks, aircraft, and chemical weapons, giving them a significant advantage over the Ethiopian army, which was primarily composed of infantry with limited access to modern ...
Two of the four original planes successfully completed the entire circumnavigation from Seattle, travelling approximately 26,345 miles (42,398 kilometres) and stopping in 28 countries along the ...
After flying 6,000 kilometres, the R-7 Semyorka rocket successfully hit its target in what is now the Kura Missile Test Range in the Russian Far ...
The announcement of the partition led to mass migrations, marred by violence, as Hindus and Sikhs moved to India while Muslims migrated to ...
Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the ...
The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan ...
The conquest of Dacia was a strategic and economic victory for Rome, providing raw materials and a strong north-eastern ...
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of ...
The concert took place at the Philharmonic Hall, and was preceded by a Soviet artillery bombardment designed to silence the German lines during the ...
Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...
The crew all survived, and their expedition provided evidence supporting Heyerdahl’s hypothesis that it was possible for ancient South Americans to have travelled across the Pacific Ocean to ...
In his proclamation he also released all the states and princes of the Empire from their oaths of loyalty to him but continued to rule as Francis I, Emperor of ...
The meters were installed along the southeast corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City, and charged 5 cents per hour. They proved effective in regulating parking spaces and ensuring a higher turnover rate, which benefited local ...
Peter III ascended the throne in January 1762 and within just six months had alienated key segments of Russian society. Meanwhile Catherine had garnered support from a number of key individuals due to her alignment with Russian ...
The LZ 1 featured a rigid aluminium frame covered with a fabric skin, within which was a series of 17 individual gas cells made from rubberized ...
Subsequent investigations revealed that a cabin vent valve had accidentally opened and depressurised the capsule when the service module was jettisoned at an altitude of 168 km, causing the crew to fall unconscious and suffer cardiac arrest in less than a ...
Rioting continued for another five nights and acted as a catalyst for LGBT political ...
Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation on June 27, 1898, after covering approximately 46,000 miles in an old Massachusetts oyster boat named ...
In what Kenneth Arnold later complained was an ‘historic misquote’, the press coined the now-ubiquitous phrase ‘flying saucers’ to describe the ...
400,000 women saw their doctors to obtain Enovid contraceptive prescriptions in the first ...
Adolf Hitler seized the opportunity to inflict a symbolic humiliation on the French by signing the armistice in the same location, and in the same railway carriage, as the armistice of the First World ...
Historians have since questioned the convictions, which saw ten men hanged for murder – six in the prison at Pottsville, and four at Mauch Chunk in Carbon ...
Wernher von Braun initially developed rockets for the United States Army, but was later made director of the Marshall Space Flight Center where he oversaw the design of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo spacecraft to the ...
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3 which informed the enslaved African Americans of their ...
Madison signed the declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the first time that the United States declared war on another ...
While the Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a British victory and the successful capture of the hill, it came the cost of 1,000 casualties that included many ...
Having opened on 16 June 1884, passengers paid 5 cents to ride the Switchback Railways and achieved speeds of up to 6 miles per ...
Alcoholics Anonymous, which operates through local groups that follow a 12-step rehabilitation program to help people overcome alcoholism, is now estimated have around two million members ...
The Abbasid Revolution gained momentum thanks to the leadership of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, a Persian revolutionary who rallied support for the Abbasid cause in the eastern provinces of the ...
The missile was fired from the deck of the submarine USS Barbero towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida, and completed its 700-mile flight in just 22 ...
Richard M. Hollingshead Jr.'s ‘Automobile Movie Theatre’ opened on a 400-acre plot of land on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken Township, and could accommodate 400 cars parked on ramps facing a 40 foot by 50 foot ...
The Marshall Plan provided aid to 16 Western European nations, distributing more than $13 billion of aid over a four year ...
The camels proved themselves to be both fast and strong, easily outperforming the horses and mules that the Army had used up until that ...
The riots began on the night of 3 June, 1943, when a group of sailors on shore leave clashed with Mexican American youths in downtown Los ...
Just a few months later the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, uniting the colonies in the face of increasingly oppressive British ...
As a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis wrote opinions in favor of individual liberty and freedom of speech, while protecting citizens’ right to ...
The final report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot, published in 2001, estimated that around 300 people may have died in the ...
Ray Harroun secured victory with a time of 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 8 seconds, averaging a speed of 74.59 miles per ...
“White Christmas” has since gone on to become the world’s biggest-selling single of all ...
While some tribes signed agreements with the American government, tens of thousands of Native Americans were forcibly resettled by the ...
Heydrich's death triggered brutal reprisals from the Nazis against the Czechoslovakian people, including the complete destruction of the village of Lidice and the massacre of its ...
The Edict of Worms condemned Luther’s writings as heretical and prohibited their publication, distribution, and possession within the Holy Roman Empire. The edict effectively excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church and sought to suppress the spread of his ideas and ...
The United Irishmen, a revolutionary republican organization inspired by Wolfe Tone, saw Irish Protestants join with the Catholic majority to achieve Irish independence and establish a ...
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 ...
The Pact of Steel stipulated that Germany and Italy would support each other militarily and politically in the event of war, promising mutual assistance and ...
The founding members of FIFA included football associations from Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. England joined the following ...
Approximately 270 million acres of land were claimed and settled under the provisions of the act, with parcels of land continuing to be claimed in Alaska as late as the ...
Kennedy joked that he could ‘retire after having had “Happy Birthday” sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome ...
Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal ...
These original New York stockbrokers traded from the Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street before moving to their first dedicated trading space in ...
After Germany's invasion of the USSR, Stalin begin actively seeking to improve relations with capitalist powers in order to focus on the war effort against the Axis forces so made the decision to dissolve the Comintern as a gesture of goodwill towards the Western ...
They quickly began to construct a triangular fort containing a number of houses alongside a storehouse and a church, which they named James Fort after King James ...
The Battle of Palmito Ranch ended in a Confederate victory. Union private John J. Williams died in the battle, likely making him the last battlefield fatality of the Civil ...
After more than 16 hours of flight, at 1.25 am Greenwich time on 12 May, 1925, the Norge successfully reached the North Pole, making it the first confirmed expedition to do ...
John Bellingham fired a single shot from a pistol, fatally wounding prime minister Spencer Perceval in the chest. Perceval collapsed immediately, and despite efforts to save him, he died shortly ...
The First Barbary War lasted until June 1805, but continuing tensions led to the Second Barbary War in ...
The Treaty of Windsor was negotiated by King John I of Portugal and John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, on behalf of the English king Richard II and remains in force. This makes it the longest-lasting diplomatic treaty in recorded history, and even served as the basis for Portuguese assistance to Britain during the Second World ...
William traveled to the court of the Great Khan of the Mongols, and wrote about his experiences in a report for Louis IX that is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of medieval travel ...
Alongside the establishment of the bicameral State Duma, the constitution granted citizens freedom of speech, assembly, and association, and provided for the protection of private ...
The flight lasted for 15 minutes and 22 seconds and reached a maximum altitude of 116 miles before returning to earth for splashdown in the Atlantic ...
Essential services such as transportation, utilities, and communication networks were severely disrupted by the General Strike and the Conservative government, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, was forced to declare a state of emergency and mobilise troops to maintain order and provide essential ...
Thuerk later revealed that around 40 people came to the demonstrations the email was advertising, and estimated that this led to more than $12 million in ...
By the time the authorities re-established control on the morning of 4 May, two prison officers and three perpetrators lay ...
The Penny Black allowed letters weighing up to half an ounce (14 grams) to be delivered for one penny, regardless of the distance travelled. This made sending mail more accessible and affordable, leading to a significant increase in postal traffic and the growth of the postal ...
Washington's inauguration was conducted on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street, with thousands of spectators gathered below to witness the historic ...
David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the People’s Budget to address social inequality and poverty by redistributing wealth through taxation and welfare ...
Eight Irish rail-layers of the Central Pacific Railroad were supported by hundreds of Chinese laborers to lay a record 10 miles 56 feet of ...
By the time the armistice was signed on 27 July, the money for Operation Moolah was still untouched as no pilot had brought their MiG-15 to South ...
The Gestapo operated with broad authority and virtually unlimited power, employing a network of informants and spies to monitor and report on suspected dissidents and political ...
Congress didn’t formally declare war until 25 April, although the declaration recognized that a state of war had existed since Spain’s declaration four days ...
The money allowed for the purchase of approximately 3,000 volumes from England that were housed in the north wing of the Capitol ...
Membership of the Order of the Garter is highly prestigious and is often reserved for members of the English nobility and royalty. Over the centuries, the Order of the Garter has evolved into a ceremonial institution, with its members participating in various official events and ...
An estimated 50,000 hopeful settlers gathered along the borders of the Oklahoma Territory prior to the gunshot that gave the signal for them to chaotically race into the territory on foot, horseback, and in wagons to stake their ...
The sensational defection of Stalin’s only surviving child made international news and four days later, at a press conference in the Plaza Hotel, she denounced the Soviet Communist regime and her father’s ...
The French declaration of war was part of a broader strategy by the revolutionary government to pre-empt foreign intervention and unite the French people behind the revolutionary ...
An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in ...
Henry Hale Bliss, a Manhattan real estate salesman, was helping a female companion name as Miss Lee disembark a southbound 8th Avenue trolley car at West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York ...
American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas ...
General Pinochet soon emerged as the permanent head of the ruling junta and set about imposing a new era of authoritarianism and political repression. He ruled Chile until ...
The Austrian delegation to Paris was led by the Social Democrat minister Karl Renner who had little choice but to agree to the redrawing of national borders that saw the emergence of several independent nations and the reduction of Austrian ...
The new name for the former Thirteen Colonies represented a cohesive identity that united them under a common ...
The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on ...
The United States apparently gained the nickname ‘Uncle Sam’ when it was featured in a local newspaper ...
The French victory blocked British reinforcements and resupplies for General Cornwallis at Yorktown who surrendered his forces on October ...
Romulus’ overthrow facilitated Odoacer’s rise and the transition to the Ostrogothic ...
While the republic’s first government was based on a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, the current system in San Marino has been in place since the Statutes of ...
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered by a joint American-French expedition led by oceanographer Robert ...
A local newspaper reported that the league was established to ‘raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of ...
USS Constitution earned the nickname ‘Old Ironsides’ after defeating HMS Guerriere in the War of ...
Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau’s recording of Chopin waltzes was pressed at Philips’ Polydor Pressing Operations plant, with the pianist himself starting the ...
Over the following years the barbed wire and mesh barrier that was constructed overnight was gradually replaced with a virtually impregnable ring of reinforced concrete that ran 155km around West ...
On 12 August Lister used a piece of lint doused in carbolic acid to cover the compound fracture wound of a seven-year-old boy. Over a period of six weeks the wound healed without developing ...
Approximately 800 people on the king’s side were killed and Paris was put in the hands of the ...
The robbers succeeded in stealing over £2.6 million in cash. Worth £50million today, the vast majority of the money was never ...
The Revenue Act of 1861 was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, imposing U.S. federal income tax for the first ...
RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he 'tipped' a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet ...
The move by Hitler effectively merged the offices of both the President and Chancellor into one role, and therefore completed what the Nazis referred to as Gleichschaltung (or ‘Co-ordination’) by establishing Hitler as both Germany's head of state and head of ...
The Act outlawed slavery throughout the British Empire although the impact took a long time to be felt. There were also some exceptions such as in areas controlled by the East India ...
On the 31st July 1970, the British Royal Navy issued the last daily rum ration, or “tot”, to ...
The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first ...
The world’s first transcontinental telephone line was successfully voice tested between New York and San ...
Having paid in advance for an expensive contract in which local businessman Rajyadhar Konai agreed to build a new road, Herschel chose to take the full hand print of the contractor as his commitment to honour the ...
Both Hitler and Mussolini were concerned about the risk of the Spanish Civil War escalating into a European-wide conflict, so at first their support for the Nationalists was small-scale and consisted mainly of transporting existing Spanish troops from Morocco to the mainland. As the war progressed their involvement ...
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air ...
The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War in the area around the Ypres Salient, and features more than 54,000 ...
Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath ...
John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in ...
The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm ...
The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New ...
Despite its initially poor reception, Mein Kampf became a popular book with hundreds of thousands of copies sold each year after Hitler became Chanceller of Germany in ...
The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and ...
The explosion was equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT, and the blast-wave was felt by civilians up to 160 miles ...
The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space ...
The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven ...
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte ...
Æthelstan was the son of Edward the Elder and the grandson of Alfred the Great. His ancestors had already carved large chunks from Viking lands as far north as the River Humber which led them to refer to themselves as ‘king of the Saxons’ or ‘king of the ...
Parliament declared Jane a usurper. She was tried on charges of high treason and found to be guilty for having signed official documents as ‘Jane the Queen’. She was beheaded the following ...
Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, made a secret trip to China to meet with Premier Zhou ...
From its high of 381.17 on September 3, 1929, the Dow plummeted by almost 90 per cent to 41.22 on July 8, ...
The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, the first international treaty that dealt with wildlife conservation issues, was ...
John Lennon was playing guitar with his skiffle band, The Quarrymen, who were performing on a bill alongside the Liverpool police dogs display team and the Band of the Cheshire ...
The bikini swimsuit was introduced for the first time, four days after an atomic test at the Bikini ...
Although the station was uncensored in that that it shared information that was suppressed within the Communist Bloc, it was am important propaganda tool founded and funded by the US ...
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World ...
The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin and is consequently viewed as a landmark piece of civil rights ...
The German gunboat SMS Panther was sent to the Moroccan port of Agadir, sparking the Second Moroccan ...
The 999 service was launched in London on 30 June 1937, and initially covered a 12 mile radius from Oxford ...
The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in ...
Seven of the ship’s eighteen officers, including Giliarovsky and the Captain, were killed in the mutiny before the Tsar's forces launched a crackdown at the Odessa ...
Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit ...
The forces of the Plains Indians outnumbered Custer's troops, and they wee caught in a pincer movement after Crazy Horse led another group of Sioux to surround ...
Napoleon's Grande Armée began its failed invasion of Russia when it crossed the Neman River in what Russians refer to as the Patriotic War of ...
Galileo was sentenced to house arrest where he remained for the final nine years of his ...
King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to ...
British prisoners of war were imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’ after the Bengali army captured Fort William from the East India ...
Germany and Russia signed the secret Reinsurance Treaty that ensured they would each remain neutral if the other went to war with a third European ...
The statue arrived disassembled, and remained in its 210 separate crates for 10 months while construction of the enormous pedestal it was to stand on was ...
Born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Pius IX’s election by the Papal conclave of 1846 came at a time of significant political unrest across ...
Magna Carta, which is Latin for ‘the Great Charter’, confirmed the principle that everyone including the king was subject to the law of the land and gave all free men the right to justice and a fair ...
The Battle of Naseby, a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, was fought between the Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model ...
The very first V-1 flying bomb exploded near a railway bridge in Mile End, London, killing eight ...
US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this ...
The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed ...
Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist ...
The Final Act of the Congress set in place a map of Europe that remained largely unchanged for the next forty years, and which laid the foundations for the First World ...
On the 8th June 1972 one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War was taken of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, a nine-year-old girl from the South Vietnamese village of Trang ...
In 1518 the English Cardinal Wolsey had negotiated the Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact that was signed by the twenty major European powers of the ...
The amphibious landings in Normandy are still the largest seaborne invasion ever to be staged, and marked the start of the Allied invasion of Nazi-held Western ...
The majority of commentators hold the view that Davison did not intend to martyr herself, but rather wished to attach a ‘Votes For Women’ scarf to the horse as a way to gain publicity for the ...
Official figures reported 241 deaths as a result of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests but unofficial estimates, including one by the US Ambassador at the time, place the figure at more than twice ...
Chile and Italy met in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, which resulted in ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the ...
The royal Exchequer Rolls from Scotland recorded the first known written reference to Scotch ...
Pepys had begun writing his diary in January 1660. Since being published in 1825 it has become an important source for historians studying the period of the Restoration. He stopped writing due to a fear that constant writing by candlelight was damaging his ...
The Peasants’ Revolt was triggered when John Bampton arrived in Essex to investigate non-payment of the poll ...
The troops of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II successfully took control of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine ...
A solar eclipse during the Battle of Halys led to a truce between the kingdoms of Media and Lydia, making it the earliest historical event that can be precisely ...
John ruled for seventeen years before contracting dysentery while in Kings Lynn, an illness from which he later ...
Kennedy's $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy's goal by landing on the moon on 20 July ...
The first Eurovision Song Contest featured only seven countries, and was broadcast across Europe using a terrestrial microwave relay network that linked the countries of Europe together like an invisible spider’s ...
Two Catholic imperial officials and their secretary were thrown out of the window of the Bohemian Chancellery in the Second Defenestration of ...
The Wars of the Roses were fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York, both of whom had claims to the ...
Hungarian-born geologist Laszlo Toth attacked and seriously damaged Michelangelo’s Pietà statue with a ...
Davis came up with the idea of reinforcing the stress points of garments with rivets after the wife of a woodcutter asked if he could make a pair of durable trousers for her husband, and approached Strauss with a business proposal whereby Strauss would finance the paperwork and the two men would share the ...
The Turkish War of Independence began when General Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Inspector of the Ottoman 9th Army and later known as Atatürk, arrived at the town of Samsun on the Black Sea ...
British inventor Edwin Budding went into partnership with foundry owner John Ferrabee to manufacture the world’s first lawn ...
What is known as the world’s oldest computer had been in plain view for two years before anyone realised what it ...
The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France, formally known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was ...
Mickey Mouse's first animated appearance was in a silent short called Plane Crazy, but the cartoon failed to secure a distributor until a soundtrack was added a year ...
The USSR and seven other European countries signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance better known as the Warsaw ...
On the 13th May 1787, the eleven ships of the “First Fleet” set sail under Captain Arthur Phillip from Portsmouth, England, to establish a penal colony in ...
Instigated on 24 June the previous year, the Soviet blockade prevented all rail, road, and water transport between Berlin and the West of the ...
The world’s earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was created in ...
This was the first time Buffalo Bill had travelled to Britain, and also marked the first time that many Europeans had seen the fabled ‘Cowboys and ...
VE Day was declared a public holiday in Britain and was marked with jubilant scenes across the world, much as the end of the First World War had been met with cheers and ...
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of ...
The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by ...
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first ...
Capone was found guilty on 17 October 1931 of Federal Income Tax Evasion and was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment by Judge James Herbert ...
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in ...
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily ...
The day before Mr Potato Head was released by Hasbro he featured in the first ever television advert for a toy that was aimed directly at ...
A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment ...
The largest ever helicopter evacuation lasted for 19 hours and involved 81 helicopters shuttling the evacuees to US Navy ships moored in the South China ...
23-year old Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS ...
The interdict deprived the Venetians of their spiritual salvation, and was therefore a formidable ...
The Pazzi family in Florence launched their unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Medici family with an assassination attempt against the brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ ...
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman who was found guilty of killing a man during one of his robberies, was the first victim of the French decapitation ...
Marking the first major formula change in 99 years, ‘new Coke’ is widely heralded as one of the biggest marketing failures in ...
Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the ...
Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium ...
The first sighting had been of Point Hicks, but it wasn’t until the ship had travelled some distance along the coast to what is now known as Botany Bay that Cook and his crew felt they had found a suitable ...
Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred ...
The Capitulations of Santa Fe granted a number of official titles to Columbus as well as ten per cent of any treasure he was able to secure on his ...
Johnson’s finished dictionary contained 42,773 words, each of which featured a number of notes on their specific ...
Modern UFO enthusiasts have used the Nuremberg celestial phenomenon as evidence of extra-terrestrial life, although scientists have also put forward their own explanations of why hundreds of people saw what was described as an aerial battle raging in front of the ...
Troops from the British Indian Army committed the Amritsar Massacre when they opened fire on nonviolent protesters and pilgrims at Jallianwala ...
Truman faced an enormous challenge simply by being the person to follow Roosevelt as President, let alone the ongoing struggles of the Second World ...
The Stone of Scone was found on the site of the High Altar at Arbroath Abbey, nearly four months after it disappeared from Westminster ...
The bell has chimed the hours almost non-stop since it first rang in July 1859, over a year after the bell itself was cast at the Whitechapel Bell ...
John Hancock, one of Boston’s wealthiest merchants and a leading figure in Boston politics, forcibly removed customs officials from his ship ...
The agreement marked the end of years of intermittent conflict between Britain and France and set the stage for the series of agreements known as the Triple Entente that bound Britain, France and Russia together at the start of the First World ...
Matilda, the daughter of King Henry I of England, was declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’ in advance of a coronation that never took ...
The 1896 Summer Olympics laid down many traditions including the first competitive marathon ...
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the United States for conspiracy to commit ...
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several ...
The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in ...
On 5 April the British Government, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ordered a naval task force that numbered more than 100 ships to retake the Falkland ...
The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 after a military coup by Spanish forces in North Africa failed to secure complete control over the ...
The Bosnian Crisis came to end with Serbia’s acceptance of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by ...
Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and first appeared in a story called ‘The Case of the Chemical Syndicate’ along with Commissioner ...
The raid by the Royal Navy and British Commandos was overseen by Combined Operations ...
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New ...
The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 ...
The concertos may have never even been performed because Christian Ludwig didn’t have good enough musicians to play the complex ...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United ...
Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vigilant regarding the chest’s contents which led his wife and maid-servant to propose a plan to smuggle him out by hiding him inside ...
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian ...
Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the Billboard 100. The album sold less than 5,000 copies in its first year and earnt Dylan the nickname ‘Hammond’s Folly’ from record ...
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers ...
Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ...
What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention. The development of the internet has made the list’s reach global, though it is still an exclusively ...
Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) ...
It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with ...
The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless ...
While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed an element should exist, he was able to calculate the missing element’s atomic mass and ...
The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the ...
The Congress met in New York City, but the 18th Century’s slow forms of transport meant that many of the members didn’t arrive in time for the scheduled start ...
Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs dropped on North ...
Salem’s witch hysteria began in January 1692 when both the daughter and niece of the Reverend Samuel Parris each began to suffer violent fits. In total twenty people were executed, and a further seven died in jail, before the paranoia came to an ...
While they were in Honduras, Cortés was informed of a rumour that Cuauhtémoc was conspiring to kill him. He ordered him to be hanged on 28 February alongside other ...
Pokémon, the world’s highest-grossing media franchise, was launched in Japan with Pocket Monsters: Red and ...
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World ...
Pope Pius V issued the Papal bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England for ...
Louis Philippe’s reign began positively, but over time he faced mounting opposition. After abdicating he fled across the Channel to Britain where he died two years ...
Emperor Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in the ancient city of Nicomedia, marking the start of the ‘Great Persecution’ of ...
Centred around Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, the small group of university friends who formed the White Rose printed and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets but were spotted by university janitor and Nazi Party member Jakub Schmid who immediately called the ...
The Romanov dynasty began after Michael Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia by the Zemsky Sobor national ...
The band, whose name has sadly been lost, were auditioning Hendrix to join them but after an exuberant first-set performance opted not to invite him back on stage for the second ...
EastEnders was first broadcast on 19 February 1985 as part of new BBC One controller Michael Grade’s ‘relaunch’ of the channel. The first episode secured an audience of 17 ...
Elm Farm Ollie gave a total of 24 quarts (23 litres) of milk which was then packed into paper cartons and dropped by parachute to the crowds at the St Louis International Air ...
H. L. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship when it attacked the Union Navy warship USS ...
Having secured permission from the Department of Antiquities of Egypt to open the sealed door, Carter came face-to-face with the enormous gilt shrine containing Tutankhamun ...
The first professional archaeological excavation began in the Qumran Caves, the location of the Dead Sea ...
Although nobody was ever brought to trial for the St Valentine's Day Massacre, it is generally accepted that the gangsters were gunned down on the orders of South Side Gang boss Al ...
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was executed in the Tower of ...
The English arranged carts containing barrels of herring into a defensive wagon fort, with sharpened stakes similar to those used at the Battle of Agincourt positioned around the ...
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ...
Tensions between university students and the locals of Oxford had been building for some time before violence broke ...
The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successfully performed a number of tests before landing at ...
Port Arthur was a fortified naval base in the south of Manchuria that had been leased to Russia since ...
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the ...
Flight 609 hit slush on the runway, causing the plane to skid off the end of the runway before crashing through the airport fence, speeding across a road, and losing its port wing after catching on a ...
An American Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb was lost off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia following an in-air ...
The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war ...
Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a ...
Despite their elegant mahogany and brass design, and an extensive promotional campaign that featured the distribution of 50,000 handbills alongside an advertisement in The Times newspaper, the toilets proved ...
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department ...
The modern 3-point seat belt was created by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin, who was a safety engineer for car manufacturer ...
Charles was executed on 30 January, having requested to wear two shirts as protection from the cold so that the crowd wouldn’t think he was shaking from fear. Six days later, Parliament abolished the ...
At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half ...
The advancing Soviet troops met some resistance from remaining Nazi troops in the Polish city of Oświęcim, but by 3pm on 27 January 1945 they had captured the Main Camp and Auschwitz ...
Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant ...
With £200 in English gold and banknotes, and a single bag that was smaller than modern carry-on luggage, Bly departed from Hoboken Pier in New Jersey on board the Augusta Victoria steamship on 14 November ...
The first instalment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys triggered the Boy Scout ...
The Second Boer War saw the British Empire fight against the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of the South African Republic and the Orange Free ...
Why the soldiers began firing on the peaceful march is unclear. Even the number of marchers killed or injured is uncertain with estimates ranging from the government’s official figure of 96 dead to revolutionary claims of more than ...
SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich called the meeting in the Berlin suburb, in which he outlined the deportation of European Jews to extermination camps in Poland where they would be systematically ...
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda ...
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World ...
Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an aerial bombing campaign in which over 2,250 coalition aircraft flew in excess of 1,000 sorties a day for five ...
The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 ...
The Casablanca Conference saw the Combined Chiefs of Staff join American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss the future strategy for fighting the Second World ...
Dr William Brydon of the British East India Company Army was the only survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers to reach safety at Jalalabad in ...
Describing itself as ‘a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces – for ever, for everyone’ the National Trust is one of the largest landowners in the United ...
The concept of a lottery, in which lots were drawn to determine a winner, had been around for centuries before Queen Elizabeth I chartered a prize draw to raise money for the “reparation of the havens and strength of the Realme, and towardes such other publique good ...
Although the Treaty had been signed in June the previous year, the terms weren’t activated until 10 January which meant that the League of Nations was officially founded as the Covenant of the League was now in ...
The Jewish population of Basel were massacred amidst accusations that they were responsible for causing the Black ...
Keen to distance the United States from nationalistic disputes that fuelled European rivalries, Wilson's 14 Points sought a lasting peace by securing terms that avoided selfish ambitions of the ...
After the Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh on 7 January 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces fled into the ...
Fans of the rock band Led Zeppelin rampaged through the Boston Garden arena, causing thousands of dollars of ...
A succession crisis was sparked following the death of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of ...
Charles I himself entered the House of Commons chamber – an act that was a huge violation of Parliamentary privilege – and sat in the Speaker’s chair to demand the Five Members be handed over to ...
Fidel Castro's nationalisation of American-owned businesses and private property led the Eisenhower administration to cut all diplomatic ties with ...
In response to Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter brought the period of détente to an ...
The original signatories – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the USSR’s Ambassador to the US Maxim Litvinov, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs T. V. Soong – were joined the next day by a further 24 ...
Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the derelict St. James’s Gate Brewery in ...
In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian ...
More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee ...
Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November ...
Hagia Sophia's long history saw it serve as both a Greek Orthodox cathedral and a Roman Catholic cathedral, before Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II in ...
As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as President and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved the next ...
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ...
CONAD was replaced by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) in 1958, and NORAD Tracks Santa has reported Santa’s location ever ...
Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a ...
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in ...
Wynne’s first ‘word-cross puzzle’ was shaped as a symmetrical diamond with a hollow centre, and was developed by Wynne for the 21 December issue of the New York World’s ‘Fun’ ...
In November 1923 Hitler was imprisoned after he led a failed coup against the Weimar Government by trying to seize power in the Bavarian city of ...
William Pitt the Younger became the youngest ever Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of ...
Composed in the Romantic style, the score received good reviews although responses to the ballet itself were mostly negative. The fortunes of the ballet only turned around with a new staging in New York in ...
Over a thousand shells were fired by the German ships, resulting in 137 deaths and a further 592 people being injured in the British towns. Most of the casualties were ...
Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster ...
Amundsen’s team arrived five weeks ahead of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova ...
Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the ...
Literally translated as ‘Fount of Life’, Lebensborn was designed to harness apparent racial purity through the birth of children conceived between Aryan women and members of the SS, often as a result of extramarital ...
The United Nations General Assembly established UNICEF to provide help for children in countries affected by World War ...
An urban legend states that an obituary printed erroneously left Nobel distressed at how he would be remembered, and resulted in him seeking a way to improve his legacy by funding the creation of Nobel ...
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile ...
As Lennon walked from his limousine to the Dakota building’s front entrance, Mark David Chapman fired five rounds at his back, of which four hit ...
The match was a semi-final at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games and became famous as a result of the violence that ran throughout the ...
The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital due to a combination of air pollution and weather ...
Studio engineer Jack Clement, who had discovered Jerry Lee Lewis, was in the control booth and decided to record the session which was the only time that these pop music pioneers would ever record ...
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart ...
Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor of the French was a lavish affair that referenced various elements of Carolingian tradition, the ancien régime, and the French ...
The National Assembly of Romanians of Transylvania and Hungary declared the unification of Transylvania and the Kingdom of ...
Thriller was released just three weeks after mixing was finished and proved so popular that it was selling a million copies a week at its ...
The ship’s insurers refused to pay out for the deaths of the slaves and the ensuing court cases found that the killing of slaves was legal in some ...
Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing ...
No accurate record exists of how many people responded to Pope Urban II's call, but estimates suggest anywhere between 60,000 and 100,000 people joined the First ...
Although directed against the Communist International, the organisation that sought to create a worldwide communist republic, the Anti-Comintern Pact was in reality against the Soviet ...
Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of ...
The world's first ‘Nickel-In-The-Slot Phonograph’ introduced the concept of the jukebox to the ...
When Kennedy's motorcade was barely five minutes away from its destination, gunshots rang out as it passed the Texas School Book ...
Organised by the Allies to bring senior Nazis to justice for their part in the war crimes committed by the regime, t first Nuremberg Trial lasted for almost a ...
Opening with the famous line ‘Four score and seven years ago,’ Lincoln made the 2-minute speech to an assembled crowd of approximately 15,000 people including six separate state ...
The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras ...
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and, despite being declared illegitimate following the annulment of her parents’ marriage, came to the throne as the next in line behind her Catholic half-sister under the terms of the Third Act of ...
German pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist after it emerged that they did not sing any of the vocals on their debut ...
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in ...
Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the General Election of 1979 but by the late 1980s her popularity, along with that of her party, was ...
While it is believed that there was considerable loss of life, actual numbers of Danes who were killed in the St Brice's Day Massacre are ...
On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of ...
Sesame Street was first conceived in 1966 as a way to provide low-income, inner-city children with an educational foundation ready for when they began formal ...
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as German Emperor and King of Prussia after the German Revolution took ...
Christian II had invaded Sweden in an attempt to preserve the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single ...
The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of ...
The Sex Pistols supported pub rock band Bazooka Joe and played a few cover songs on equipment borrowed from the headliners, but the plug was pulled after twenty ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United ...
The students seized 66 hostages, 14 of whom were released before the end of the crisis. The other 52 hostages were held for 444 ...
The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of ...
Prior to the adoption of universally accepted time zones, the vast majority of settlements around the world observed local mean solar ...
Although nobody was injured during Italy's attack, the Ottoman Empire complained that aerial bombing contravened the Hague ...
Martin Luther’s particular concern was the Catholic church's practice of selling indulgences with a promise that a buyer’s sins would be ...
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the ...
Raleigh had been found guilty of treason for his involvement in the Main Plot that sought to depose Elizabeth’s successor James I and replace him with his cousin Arabella ...
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British ...
'Stand By Me' went on to be voted one of the Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of ...
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place between the Earp brothers and a gang of outlaws in Tombstone, ...
Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than ...
World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from ...
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI ...
The Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse ...
At 9.15am on the 21st October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a colliery spoil tip above the Welsh village of Aberfan ...
It was during the Long March that Mao Zedong emerged as the best person to lead the Chinese Communist Party, and his survival alongside less than 10% of the original troops mythologised him and reinforced his ...
After seventeen years, the Second Punic War was finally brought to an end with the decisive victory of the Roman general and consul Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at the Battle of ...
The new broadcasting company was a consortium of the UK’s leading radio manufacturers, and was jointly funded through a royalty on the sale of radio sets sold by the member producers and a license ...
Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight ...
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General ...
Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of ...
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...
Ancient sources state that the Emperor Claudius as poisoned, although who administered the poison - and on whose orders - continues to be fiercely debated by ...
The decision to repeat a horse race from the original celebration the following year led to the establishment of the annual festival at which beer halls and carnival stalls soon began to ...
The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant ...
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware ...
Guevara was shot nine times in a way designed to make the injuries look like they had been caused during a battle with the Bolivian ...
By the end of the competition Rocket was the only engine to complete the full course without suffering any damage, securing Stephenson the contract to manufacture locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that opened the following ...
Keen to consolidate the newly-united Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck turned to diplomacy in an attempt to ensure the status quo in ...
Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...
The closure of Palmer's Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit ...
By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to ...
Boris III became Tsar of Bulgaria at the end of the First World War, just four days after his father, Ferdinand I, signed the Armistice of Thessalonica with the Allied ...
United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand ...
The Chinese Communists in the People’s Liberation Army had been fighting the second stage of a long and costly civil war against the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, known as the Kuomintang, since shortly after the end of the Second World ...
Radio 1’s target demographic was, and has continued to be, the 15-29 year old age group which means the music it broadcasts has evolved throughout the station’s ...
Seen by many as the ultimate act of failed appeasement, the Munich Agreement was tabled on 29 September and signed in the early hours of the next ...
Fleming found that a petri dish containing staphylococci bacteria had been contaminated with an unidentified fungus. The bacteria around the fungus had been destroyed, whereas bacteria that were further away ...
The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model ...
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard ...
Balboa's journey involved battling with native tribes and forging a way through thick jungle, before reaching the mountain range along the Chucunaque River from where he first saw the Pacific Ocean on the morning of 25 ...
The Judiciary Act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George ...
The first recorded naval battle featuring artillery took place in the first naval engagement of the Hundred Years’ ...
The first edition of the National Geographic Magazine was published by the National Geographic ...
The initial run of 1,500 copies of The Hobbit sold out within three months, and further runs proved similarly popular prompting Tolkien to write the Lord of the ...
The fierce fighting at the Battle of Fulford that initially saw the Norwegians being driven back gave way to a counter-attack that led to Hardrada’s ...
Organised by dairy farmer Michael Eavis, the event was billed as the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival and attracted 1,500 people who paid a pound each to see a number of bands on a single stage and drink unlimited quantities of ...
The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los ...
The talks concluded with the signing of two separate agreements – ‘A Framework for Peace in the Middle East’ and ‘A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and ...
Claimed by its fans to be the greatest comedy film of all time, Life of Brian has courted controversy since its release due to its satirical portrayal of religion that is interpreted by some as ...
The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester ...
The poem Defence of Fort M'Henry provides an account of the British attack on the United States during the Battle of ...
Michelangelo’s David is considered to be one of the greatest examples of Renaissance ...
Despite members of the army not being permitted to have membership of a political party, Hitler had been given special permission to join the DAP as a military intelligence ...
Janet Parker first became ill on 11 August, but nine days passed before she was admitted to hospital and her infection was identified as ...
American rock band Nirvana released the critically acclaimed single “Smells Like Teen ...
The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic ...
Twelve teams from across the Midlands and the North West of England made up the very first Football ...
The Nazi German Luftwaffe launched the first of 57 consecutive days and nights of bombing raids on London in what became known as the ...
The terrorists and their hostages were shuttled to a nearby airfield, but the captors later turned on the Israeli athletes and killed them with machine guns and a ...
Peter the Great's decision to ban beards was unpopular, not only because it was a significant challenge to tradition but also because shaving a beard was interpreted by some Orthodox Christians as being ...
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New ...
German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ ...
Beginning at a bakery in Pudding Lane, the catastrophic Great Fire of London blazed for more than three days and destroyed over 13,000 houses, churches and government ...
The Adi Granth, the original holy scripture of Sikhism now known as Guru Granth Sahib, was first installed at the Harmandir Sahib Golden ...
Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Entente, which led to the formation of the Triple ...
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary ...
The First Opium War formally ended when Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, the first of the ‘unequal ...
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th ...
At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s led nations such as Japan and Italy to launch invasions of Manchuria and Abyssinia ...
The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the ...
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English ...
Beginning at around 1pm on 24 August, Mount Vesuvius sent gas, volcanic ash, and pumice into the stratosphere for up to 20 hours. This was followed by a pyroclastic flow that carried gas and molten rock down from the volcano and which then buried the previously fallen ...
King Michael I of Romania led a coup d'état that removed the Nazi-aligned government of Ion ...
The Stanley family surrounded and killed Richard III after the king chose to break ranks and target Henry Tudor ...
Vincenzo Peruggia served just six months in jail for the robbery, and was hailed by many Italians as a nationalist hero for returning the Mona Lisa to her real home although it was later returned to ...
The Cold War border between Austria and Hungary was opened for a short period of time for the Pan-European ...
The trials of the Pendle Witches are not only some of the most famous but also some of the best recorded witch trials in British history, and represent two per cent of all British witches to face trial over three ...
Parliament passed the Marriage Act that legalised civil marriages and introduced their formal ...
The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by ...
Josef Jakobs was found guilty of espionage by General Court Martial and taken to the miniature firing range at the Tower of London where he was strapped to a wooden Windsor chair and killed by firing squad at ...
Within two years up to 80% of the entire Polish workforce had joined Solidarity or one of its sub-organisations, and they regularly used strikes to achieve political ...
The first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle took place in the Bavarian town of ...
The Battle of the Bogside began in Derry, Northern Ireland, marking one of the first major conflicts of The ...
It took the best of part of seven months for the delegates of the new German National Assembly to agree on the terms of the new Weimar constitution, which Ebert signed into law whilst on holiday in ...
The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal ...
Nixon announced his resignation in a televised speech on 8 August and it took effect from noon the next ...
Traffic was stopped on the B507 road in London so The Beatles could pose for their iconic Abbey Road album ...
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted powers to President Johnson to use American military force to assist countries in Southeast Asia that were facing so-called ...
The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above Hiroshima as planned, with the equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT. Virtually all buildings within a mile of the blast were ...
Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace was captured by English forces at Robroyston near ...
Sparkling wine was a problem for Dom Pérignon and his contemporaries because the build-up of carbon dioxide from a secondary fermentation inside the bottle could cause it to explode without ...
Palos de la Frontera holds the official title as the starting point of Columbus’ transatlantic ...
Hannibal’s army inflicted a devastating defeat on the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of ...
In December 1969 the Admiralty Board, which meets in order to administer the Royal Navy, published a written statement that said issuing rum was ‘no longer compatible with the high standards of efficiency required’ and the daily ration was stopped the following ...
La Marseillaise was composed by a French army officer and was originally called the ‘War Song for the Army of the Rhine’ with the aim of rallying soldiers fighting in Strasbourg during the French Revolutionary ...
James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was forced to abdicate in favour of her young son a month after she was ...
Exactly one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declared war on ...
The First Battle of El Alamein continued for nearly 4 weeks and saw both sides launch attacks and counter-attacks, eventually ending in stalemate with both sides taking time to reorganise and ...
Having come to prominence in the early 1960s with songs that chronicled the social situation in the USA, Dylan’s dramatic shift away from his traditional instruments of acoustic guitar and harmonica was said to have, ‘electrified one half of his audience, and electrocuted the ...
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of ...
The ultimatum was delivered at 6pm on 23 July by the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Belgrade, with a deadline of 48 hours within which the Serbian government had to respond. The accepted all but one of the ...
Referred to mockingly as ‘Hotel Escobar’, the prison was staffed by guards chosen by the drugs lord ...
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the ...
It was while some of Napoleon's engineers were working with the army to strengthen Fort Julien in the northern Delta area of Egypt that the granodiorite block we now know as the Rosetta Stone was ...
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in ...
The Romanov family were all shot or stabbed by bayonets, and their bodies were taken away in a truck and disposed of in a forest twelve miles north of the ...
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ...
By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were ...
The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the ...
News reports the day after the concert stated that Live Aid had raised upwards of £40 ...
Moscow’s Trinity Church, later renamed Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat and better known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, was ...
Telstar's first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in ...
The Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal ...
The first Wimbledon Championship was staged in order to raise money to repair the roller that was used to maintain the lawns at the club, and only featured a Gentlemen’s Singles ...
On the 8th July 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average – a key indicator of the value of America’s biggest companies – fell to its lowest point during the Great Depression that began with the Wall Street ...
The Chillicothe Baking Company's ‘Kleen Maid Sliced Bread’ proved incredibly popular and was advertised as ‘the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was ...
The Labour government of Clement Atlee won the first post-war election with a pledge to implement the recommendations of the 1942 Beveridge Report and improve the social welfare system in ...
On the 4th July 1950, Radio Free Europe – founded the previous year to transmit uncensored information to audiences behind the Iron Curtain – completed its first ...
Mallard set the record of 125.88mph on a stretch of slightly downhill railway track at Stoke Band, south of the town of ...
On the 2nd July 1964, American President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law at the White ...
60 competitors began the race at Montgeron, south of Paris, of whom 39 were private ...
Although the popular name suggests the purge lasted for one night, the executions went on throughout the ...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in 1914 had a direct effect on the outbreak of war, while the Treaty of Versailles was signed on exactly the same date five years later in ...
US President Harry S. Truman ordered air and naval forces to assist South Korea against an invasion by North ...
While the speech effectively recognised East Berlin as part of the Soviet Bloc, it also reaffirmed America’s commitment to defend West Berlin against ...
Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy, otherwise known as a ...
Known variously as St John's Dance, St Vitus' Dance, or the ‘dancing plague’, the occurrence in Aachen was neither the first nor the last outbreak but is one of the best ...
Bannockburn was unusual for a medieval battle in that it lasted for two days, with the first day being notable for Bruce single-handedly killing the young English knight Sir Henry de Bohun with an axe blow to the head after he tried to charge him with a ...
Concerned that the entire fleet might be shared out between the victors as the spoils of war Admiral von Reuter, the German officer in charge of the interned fleet, decided to purposely sink the ...
The Deputies of the French Third Estate swore not to separate until a written constitution had been established for the ...
Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your ...
The death of Mumtaz Mahal, the chief consort of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, prompted her husband to construct the Taj ...
Despite being an ardent Marxist he began moves towards introducing a multiparty political system and, on 1 November 1956, announced Hungary’s withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and its status as a neutral ...
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan ...
The design of the flag of the United States has changed numerous times during its history to reflect the admission of more states into the ...
Any suspect arrested in the USA must be informed of four key rights. ‘You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for ...
Over three volumes Anne Frank recorded the relationships between the Frank family, the Van Pels family, and her father’s friend Fritz Pfeffer with whom they shared a confined hiding place in the 'Secret Annexe' above her father's warehouse ...
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in ...
The British supported the Revolt as it distracted tens of thousands of Ottoman troops from joining other fronts in the First World ...
Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British ...
The Petition of Right is a major British constitutional document that recognises four key principles of government: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in ...
The 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion in history, when the Allied forces of the Second World War launched Operation Neptune – more commonly known as the D-Day ...
By the time a final ceasefire was signed on 10 June, Israel’s territorial gains had put around a million Arabs under their control, signalling the start of a new phase in Arab-Israeli ...
The Treaty of Trianon was signed between Hungary and most of the Allies of the First World ...
Authorities in the Californian city of Santa Cruz banned rock and roll music at public ...
More than 89% of eligible Italian citizens voted in the referendum, with 54.3% voting in favour of turning the country into a ...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band won four Grammy Awards following its release and is widely regarded as one of the most influential albums ever ...
The Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka was burnt down during a violent rampage by an organised mob of ethnic ...
Joan was accused of being a witch and a heretic due to the voices she heard and visions she witnessed, but the crime that condemned her to death was that of wearing men’s ...
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount ...
Rust approached Moscow in the early evening and, after passing the city's ‘Ring of Steel’ anti-aircraft defences, touched down on a bridge next to St Basil’s Cathedral and taxied his aircraft into Red ...
Although not the first ever vampire novel, Dracula was enormously influential in defining modern ideas of vampires, and for forever associating them with ...
On the 25th May 1961, American President John F. Kennedy made the announcement to a joint session of Congress that he had set his sights on a manned moon landing before the end of the ...
Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel Of Death’, was transferred to begin work at Auschwitz concentration ...
In a secret agreement signed on 26 April in London, Italy agreed to leave the Triple Alliance, join the forces of the Triple Entente, and declare war on Austria-Hungary and ...
Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a ...
The very first non-stop transatlantic flight had occurred in 1919 when John Alcock and Arthur Whiten Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber aircraft from Newfoundland to Ireland in just under 16 ...
Although found unanimously guilty by a jury of 27 peers, the evidence against Anne was questionable. Only the Flemish musician Mark Smeaton admitted to having an affair with her, and this confession is reputed to have been extracted under ...
The Siege of Acre, sometimes known in Christendom as the Fall of Acre, marked the last attempt to exert Crusader influence in the Holy ...
Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron attacked German dams in Operation Chastise, otherwise known as the Dambuster ...
By the time the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976 an estimated minimum of 400,000 people had died through torture, execution, or ...
On 15th May 1928, the first animated cartoon to feature Mickey and Minnie Mouse was shown to a theatre ...
Jenner scientifically tested, and proved, that infection with the mild disease of cowpox gave immunity to the more dangerous smallpox ...
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in ...
Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per ...
Hess landed twelve miles away from his intended destination of Dungavel House, the home of the Duke of Hamilton, with whom he hoped to open peace ...
On the 9th May 1887, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opened in London at the American Exhibition in West ...
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ...
The Cult of the Supreme Being recognised that God had created the universe, but that He did not interfere or intervene in its operation. Therefore it taught that humans were responsible for their own actions and ...
West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were ...
The area governed by Kublai Khan was enormous and swept from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Black Sea in the west, and from Afghanistan in the south to Siberia in the ...
Built by George and Robert Stevenson in Newcastle, and transported to Whitstable by sea, Invicta was the first steam locomotive to haul passengers on a public ...
The De Havilland DH 106 Comet operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation reduced the overall journey time from London to Johannesburg by a ...
The French government sold the entire Louisiana Territory, which included an area that now forms part of fifteen separate states, at less than 3 cents per ...
On 29th April 1975, America began Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of over 1,000 American civilians and a further 6,000 "at-risk" Vietnamese from ...
Official figures placed attendance at 126,000 people – 1,000 more than the stadium’s capacity – but estimates suggest that the crowd was probably twice that ...
The Russian Empire’s State Duma met for the first time at the Taurida Palace in St. ...
Historians now generally accept that up to 300 civilians were killed directly in the bombing of Guernica, although it’s likely that many more – perhaps as many as 1,700 – died from their ...
Despite all the odds stacked against them, the crew of the tiny boat reached South Georgia in 16 days and then crossed to the whaling station at ...
On the 23rd April 1985 the Coca-Cola Company introduced "the new taste of Coca-Cola", when they replaced the original Coca-Cola formula with a new ...
Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being ...
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and ...
Painting the windows of the Astrodome significantly improved the situation for the players, but in turn led to the grass inside dying from a lack of light. It was replaced with an artificial alternative, which became known as ...
The Treaty of London was signed, which recognised and guaranteed the independence and neutrality of ...
Whether Revere referred to the approaching army as ‘regulars’ or ‘Redcoats’ is unclear, but his cry had the intended consequence of signalling the march of troops towards the Massachusetts village of ...
On the 17th April 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand – signed an agreement to support Christopher Columbus’ voyage in which he crossed the Atlantic and discovered the ...
The Treaty of Rapallo meant the two countries ended all territorial and financial arguments stemming from the previous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and agreed to ‘co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both ...
On 15th April 1755, Samuel Johnson published "A Dictionary of the English Language" in ...
The future Roman Emperor Titus began the Siege of Jerusalem, during which the Second Temple was burned and ...
The resulting emergency led to the calm announcement by the crew of, ‘Houston we’ve had a ...
Eichmann was known as the architect of the Final Solution, the man who coordinated the transportation of Jews from across Europe to Death Camps in the ...
The United States table tennis team heralded the era of ‘ping pong diplomacy’ by becoming the first official American delegation to visit China in 20 ...
Lee’s surrender to Grant encouraged other Confederate forces across the south to do the same and marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil ...
Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the ...
The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainstorm eventually led to the cancellation of the ...
To the ship’s crew the voyage to the New World was just a delivery contract between the Pilgrims and the ship’s master, Christopher ...
On the 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of ...
As James stood on a chair and turned to clean a dirty picture frame in his house, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head from virtually point-blank ...
The racehorse Red Rum won an historic third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in ...
Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use to take that power in ...
The Kaiser’s speech in Tangier was a direct challenge to the French Foreign Minister, Théophile Delcassé, who had previously secured wide European support for control of ...
The Crimean War began in October 1853, having been triggered by disagreements between Russia and the Ottoman Empire regarding Russia’s right to protect the Orthodox Christian minority in the Ottoman-controlled Holy ...
The withdrawal of the last regular American troops from South Vietnam ended eight years of direct US military involvement in ...
The refusal of the Communards to accept the authority of the French government led to the Commune being brutally suppressed by the regular French army in May during ‘The Bloody ...
Not all the recommendations were implemented, but the subsequent Beeching Cuts resulted in the closure of 2,128 stations, thousands of miles of track, and the loss of up to 70,000 ...
The Book of Mormon is a key sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that was published by Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement, when he was twenty-four years ...
The EEC, sometimes referred to as the Common Market, survived until 2009 when it was absorbed into the European ...
Exxon Valdez had only recently departed the Valdez Marine Terminal when the captain, Joseph Hazelwood, left Third Mate Gregory Cousins in charge of steering the vessel while he retired to his ...
Abbot Robert Fuller surrendered the abbey and its property on 23 March 1540, and within just a few years all the buildings except for the parish nave had been demolished or had collapsed due to ...
Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by ...
Bismarck submitted his resignation on 18 March, two days before formally leaving office, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing his ...
On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut ...
The Knights Templar was formally abolished by Pope Clement V, but Molay's execution secured his place as one of the Order’s most famous ...
Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual ...
Casca was the first to strike and caused a stab wound to Caesar’s neck. He suffered a total of 23 stab wounds in the ...
Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory ...
Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his ...
Gandhi intended to produce salt from seawater to avoid paying tax and thus undermine Britain’s salt ...
Within 18 months the disease had become a pandemic that infected up to a third of the entire world’s ...
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to ...
The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defense. The court set them ...
The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production ...
Hitler chose to send three battalions, or approximately 22,000 German troops, into the Rhineland in violation of the terms of the Treaty of ...
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of ...
Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech played a significant role in changing western perceptions of their former Soviet ...
The Forth Railway Bridge stretches almost 2.5km across the Firth of Forth, a large estuary area to west of ...
The country lost approximately a third of the entire Russian population alongside around one million square miles of land including fertile farmland, natural resources, and industrial ...
Chappe was born into a wealthy family in 1763 and originally trained as a member of the ...
Yellowstone became the first national park in the world after President Ulysses S. Grant signed The Act of Dedication ...
The Waco siege began in Texas after agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided the Branch Davidian ...
Communists were blamed for starting the fire in the Reichstag, and Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found and ...
The ships from the British Navy that were supposed to ensure Napoleon was unable to escape his exile were not in the area when, on 26 February, he left the island and headed for the French mainland on board the brig Inconstant accompanied by almost a thousand ...
Officially called ‘On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences’, Khrushchev’s speech was a vehement denunciation of Stalin’s abuses of power and his creation of a personality ...
Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of ...
Although there is no definitive evidence for this publication date, numerous independent secondary sources state 23 ...
The last invasion of Britain by a hostile foreign force began when French troops under the command of the Irish-American Colonel William Tate landed near the Welsh town of ...
Officially called The Manifesto of the Communist Party, the original pamphlet was just 23 pages long but went on to become a highly influential political document alongside Marx’s more substantial Das ...
The Northern Isles, which consist of the two island groups of Shetland and Orkney, have been inhabited since prehistoric times but were formally annexed by the Norwegian king Harald Hårfagre in around 875 after he subdued the Vikings who used the islands as a base from which to raid Norway and ...
Pedro Lascuráin began the shortest presidential term in history when he became President of Mexico for less than an ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first ...
Referred to by Wilson as a ‘pocket symphony’, the modular process used for ‘Good Vibrations’ involved the recording and re-recording of individual sections of the song using the Wall of Sound formula that had been developed by record producer Phil ...
The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as ...
The early introduction of three of the six new coins, together with an extensive publicity campaign, contributed greatly to the smoothness of Decimal Day when it finally came about in ...
Pale Blue Dot, the most distant photograph ever taken of Earth, was created by the Voyager 1 space ...
The couple were declared King and Queen after agreeing to the Declaration of Right. Their coronation took place on 11 ...
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at a concert by Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra called An Experiment in Modern ...
The overthrow of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi brought the 2,500 year old monarchy in Iran to an end and ushered in a theocracy overseen by the Ayatollah ...
Germany quickly began developing an equivalent ship to the Dreadnought, resulting in a naval arms race that contributed to the outbreak of the First World War in ...
Having been held for 19 years in a variety of castles and manor houses around the British Isles, Mary was accused of plotting to kill Elizabeth in ...
The band landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport on 7 February to be greeted by 3,000 screaming ...
France and the United States signed the first two treaties ever negotiated by the American government, and which formally recognised the independence of the United ...
Although now largely inaccurate as a result of the inherent delay in the encoding, transmission, and decoding of digital radio broadcasts, the Greenwich Time Signal pips are still a part of many BBC radio ...
John Rogers became the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I after he was burnt at the ...
Their private plane took off at 12:55am on 3 February, but managed to fly only 6 miles before crashing amidst deteriorating ...
A potential diphtheria epidemic in Alaska was avoided after a dogsled relay transported vials of antitoxin 674 miles in five and a half days in “Great Race of ...
On the 1st February 1968, American photojournalist Eddie Adams took a photograph of South Vietnamese National Police Chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém in ...
Although a standard hamburger cost the price of ten loaves of bread, some news outlets estimated that 30,000 people passed through the doors on the first ...
The Victoria Cross, which is commonly referred to as the VC, is the highest military decoration in the British honours system and takes precedence over every other order and ...
On the 28th January 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in ...
The Outer Space Treaty, which provides the basic framework on international space law, was opened for signatures in the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United ...
Seven months elapsed before Clinton was called before a grand jury, where he admitted he and Lewinsky had had a relationship that was ‘not ...
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television ...
Three Praetorian Guards cornered Caligula in a cryptoporticus beneath his palace on the Palatine Hill and stabbed him to ...
Scientists have since judged that the earthquake had a magnitude of around 8.0 on the Richter scale, and have had no reason to question the traditional estimates of around 830,000 ...
The Portuguese royal family and more than 10,000 courtiers relocated to Brazil to escape the advancing Napoleonic ...
The blade fell at 10.22am, after which it is reported that a number of members of the public rushed forward to dip their handkerchiefs in Louis’ ...
Robert McClure departed England with HMS Investigator to lead the first expedition to transit the Northwest ...
The four people killed in the air raids were all civilians, which served as a stark message about the changing nature of warfare in the 20th ...
Wilhelm was formally declared the German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles on 18 ...
The Battle of Monte Cassino began when Allied forces launched the first of four attacks against the Gustav Line in ...
The title Augustus is understood to translate as ‘the illustrious one’ and, although the title did not grant Octavian him political authority, many historians see this as the point at which his rule as first Roman Emperor ...
21 people were killed and a further 150 were injured after 2.3 million gallons of molasses swept through North End in Boston, Massachusetts after a storage tank ...
Voter turnout in the plebiscite was 98% of all eligible voters in the Saar, and 90.8% of them chose to re-join the German ...
On the 12th January 1895, the National Trust was founded by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke ...
The occupation of the Ruhr was met with passive resistance by the German workers. Their strike was only called off on 26 September as rampant hyperinflation crippled the German ...
Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with the 13th Legion during his march on Rome that led to the Roman Civil ...
Although the income tax was abolished in 1802, it was reinstated and repealed another two times before being made ...
On the 8th January 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson made a speech to Congress in which he outlined his principles for world peace, known as the Fourteen ...
The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled ...
When the Witenaġemot met after the death of Edward the Confessor, the elected Harold to be the new king and his coronation took place the same ...
Dubček replaced Novotný as the leader of Czechoslovakia on 5 January 1968 and quickly began to introduce a series of political and economic reforms known as ‘socialism with a human ...
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas ...
Although numerous suspension bridges had been built prior to the Brooklyn Bridge, nothing came close to the almost 1,600 foot span across the East River from Brooklyn to ...
Sutcliffe was found guilty of murdering 13 women over a six-year period, and of attempting to murder a further ...
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in ...
Although the patent for the game was awarded to Darrow, it is now widely recognised that he was just one of many people who developed the complex design and rules that we now know as ...
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism cover a long, complex and violent history in which Christians revered the Jewish scriptures yet held Jews collectively responsible for the crucifixion of ...
The murder of Thomas Becket was recorded in a later history by the monk Edward Grim who claimed that the fatal blow split Becket’s skull as he knelt in front of the ...
Kim Il-sung was already the country’s Prime Minister and the First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, and four years after his death in 1994 he was made Eternal President of the ...
The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a ...
The Exorcist is one of the highest-grossing films of all time, but originally opened in just twenty-six American ...
After Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, William became the third person to wear the crown of England that ...
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas ...
The poem is significant for being the first source to give the names of Santa’s reindeer, as well as establishing the image of the jolly fat Santa that we know ...
Following his overthrow, Ceausescu and his wife were subjected to a show trial on Christmas Day and found guilty of crimes including genocide and illegally gathering wealth before being ...
On the 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World ...
Established following a decree by Lenin on 19 December, the Cheka’s focus was on defending the revolution by removing internal threats to the communist ...
A Christmas Carol has never been out of print since but, despite the first run selling out within 6 days, high production costs due to his very specific requirements meant that the profits were smaller than Dickens had hoped ...
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed ...
Orville piloted the first flight, which lasted for just 12 seconds over a total distance of only 36.5 ...
The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India ...
The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment which had made the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol ...
In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in ...
Although accurate figures are impossible to establish, most scholars estimate that between 40,000 to over 300,000 people died as a result of the massacre in ...
Kenya had been under British rule since the 19th Century, and since becoming a colony in 1920 African demands for a greater role in politics had ...
King Edward VIII Edward abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and became known as the Duke of ...
It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to ...
A Charlie Brown Christmas went on to win both a Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's ...
Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was ...
The following morning, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the day of the attack on PEarl Harbor as ‘a date which will live in infamy’ and called for Congress to declare war on the Empire of ...
Meredith Hunter was killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival during a performance by the Rolling ...
Over 150 soldiers from both sides died in a two-day skirmish that began on 5 December, and whose origins continue to be ...
Frenchman Georges Claude’s neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show was used to light the front of the large exhibition space at the Grand Palais with red ...
United States Senator Joseph McCarthy was censured for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonour and ...
This simple act of defiance led to her quickly becoming a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, and sparked the Montgomery Bus ...
On 30 November 1786 Leopold formally abolished the death sentence as well as banning the use of ...
The Declaration of Olmütz was signed between Prussia and Austria, in which Prussia submitted to Austrian ...
The channel they found through the South American landmass was named the Strait of All Saints, but is now known as the Strait of ...
Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of ...
Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it being the most complete example of a royal tomb ever ...
The Treaty of Granada ended the Granada War and brought about the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian ...
Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great ...
The Ottomans had suffered up to 20,000 casualties compared to Skanderbeg’s 1,000 during the ...
An Unearthly Child was the first of a four-part serial that saw actor William Hartnell take the role of the time-travelling Doctor ...
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert ...
Within two decades, Edison's invention of the phonograph had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound ...
The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in ...
On the 19th November 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, ...
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the Allies had advanced more than six miles into German-held ...
UNESCO was created to promote international collaboration in education, science and culture as a way to contribute towards world peace and ...
Clemenceau's appointment heralded a marked change in government as he sought to consolidate French support behind its ...
Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were ...
On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in ...
Within five years the World Wide Web began to be adopted by people and companies that weren’t connected with science or academia, and it has seemingly been dominated by photographs of cats ever ...
American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of ...
Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I ...
Although the border remained closed for around three hours, by 11pm the Berlin Wall checkpoint at Bornholmer Strasse had been ...
Hitler was injured and escaped capture, but was arrested two days later and put on trial for high ...
The 'storming of the Winter Palace' presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a ...
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its ...
However, the plot was revealed in an anonymous letter and Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of ...
Focusing on reform of the electoral system to improve the conditions of the working class, the release of the People’s Charter in 1838 had prompted the creation of the national working-class Chartist protest ...
Laika was never intended to return to Earth as the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been ...
This Constitution of the Year III established a bicameral legislature and a five-man Directory that wielded executive ...
The public saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for the first time when Pope Julius II celebrated All Saints Day ...
Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in ...
Announcements were made before, during and after the radio broadcast that the events in War of the Worlds were fictitious, but it was clear that these warnings went unheeded by ...
The invasion was met with international condemnation that pressured British Prime Minister Anthony Eden into calling a ceasefire just a day ...
Because America’s part of the agreement was kept secret, Khrushchev appeared to have ‘lost’. The reality is that both sides made ...
By the summer of 1987 it had become public knowledge that the Soviets had bugged the new building with technology that the United States was struggling to ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi met with Victor Emmanuel II, the King of Sardinia, at Teano and handed him control of southern ...
Davis first entered military service following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, and later served as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at both Wilberforce University in Ohio and Tuskegee University in Alabama as well as serving tours of duty around the ...
Although the scale of panic selling did slow down, the market continued its downward trajectory for over 2 ...
The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich ...
The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ...
European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda ...
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January ...
Having been found guilty of treason, she was instead sentenced to death and transported to the guillotine in an open ...
The new currency was backed by land that was used by businesses and agriculture, and was introduced at the rate of one Rentenmark to one trillion ...
Harold was killed on the battlefield and, although his exact cause of death isn’t known, it signalled the collapse of the ...
The White House was built as part of the development of the Federal City – a national capital founded under the terms of the 1790 Residence ...
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World ...
Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard ...
Frustrated by the lack of progress made by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies from whom the group had split, the WSPU soon became known for its militant and sometimes violent actions under the motto ‘Deeds, not ...
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan ...
The establishment of the GDR ensured that the division of Germany that had been implemented in 1945 was made ...
On the 6th October 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that was enraged by the peace treaty he had negotiated with ...
Two cultural icons made their first appearance when Dr No, the first of the James Bond series of films, hit cinema screens on the same day as the Beatles released their debut single ‘Love Me ...
The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of ...
At midnight on 3 October the black, red and gold flag of West Germany was raised above the Brandenburg Gate which had previously divided the two ...
In return for the crusaders’ unconditional surrender, Saladin agreed that anyone who paid a ransom would be able to leave the city in ...
Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world ...
The Battle of the Baggage saw the defeat of an army from the powerful Umayyad Caliphate by Turgesh ...
President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially ...
The shortest papacy in history ended after just twelve days following the death of Pope Urban VII, shortly after he introduced Europe’s first smoking ...
Despite the anger from some Germans, Stresemann’s actions laid the foundation for the economic recovery that Germany experienced up until the onset of the Great ...
Known as Transatlantic No. 1 or TAT-1, the £120 million system actually consisted of two identical cables to allow transmission in each ...
Truman later ordered all copies to be brought to him and locked away since the content was a serious threat to US-Soviet ...
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide ...
The war persisted for nearly eight long and bloody years, leading to the deaths of an estimated half a million soldiers and the same number of ...
Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at ...
The Ragamuffin War began when Brazilian rebels in the southern province of Rio Grande do Sul captured Porto ...
The Illuminations at the British seaside resort of Blackpool were turned on for the first ...
The Chinese government appealed to the League of Nations for assistance, and the League promptly passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Japanese ...
The San Francisco Bulletin printed his decree in full, sparking media interest that led to him becoming a celebrity in the ...
The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón’s second term as ...
The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...
On the 14th September 1814, the poem that was to provide the lyrics for the United States’ national anthem was written by 35 year-old Francis Scott ...
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police ...
Alexander Hamilton was made the first United States Secretary of the Treasury by President George ...
Hungary had been inundated with East Germans since the government began removing the border fence in ...
Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first ...
Warbeck had convinced his followers that he was Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the two ‘Princes in the ...
The ship Victoria returned to Spain as the only survivor of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet that circumnavigated the ...
The Reign of Terror began in France when Bertrand Barère, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, made a speech in favour of it that ended with the exclamation, “Let's make terror the order of the ...
The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President ...
The Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of ...
Octavian defeated the combined forces of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of ...
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World ...
On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of ...
The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the ...
On the 29th August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First ...
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in ...
One of the most destructive volcanic events in modern history occurred when Krakatoa’s eruption reached its ...
On the 26th August 1346, one of the most decisive battles in the Hundred Years War was won by the army of the English king Edward ...
On the 25th August 1944, the Nazi German garrison in Paris surrendered the city to the ...
Political activist Abbie Hoffman and a group of protesters threw dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock ...
On 23rd August 1939, Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop – the Soviet foreign minister and the German foreign minister – signed the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, otherwise known as the Nazi-Soviet ...
Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola began the Haitian ...
At around 11pm on the 20th August 1968, troops from the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary entered Czechoslovakia in an invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an ...
On the 19th August 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, was placed under house arrest in what is known as the August ...
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to ...
On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of ...
Queen Victoria sent the first telegram using the newly-installed transatlantic telegraph cable to US President James ...
The Atlantic Charter was issued by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston ...
Beginning at midnight on the 13th August 1961, East German police and army began to close the border with West ...
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic ...
The Weimar Republic was officially established on 11th August 1919, when Friedrich Ebert signed the new constitution into ...
On the 10th August 1792, French revolutionary troops stormed the Tuileries Palace in ...
Construction began on the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa, now better known as the Leaning Tower of ...
On the 8th August 1963, a gang of 15 men attacked a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London and stole over £2.6million in ...
Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across a continent when she completed a 59-day road trip from New York to San ...
On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without a ...
On the 2nd August 1934, the 86 year old German Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg died of lung cancer and Adolf Hitler became both the Führer and Reich Chancellor of the German ...
On the 1st August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force in the United Kingdom, although it had received royal assent a year ...
The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical ...
The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of ...
On the 28th July 1858 William Herschel, a British Magistrate in West Bengal in India, made the first modern use of fingerprints for ...
On the 27th July 1942, Allied forces in North Africa stopped the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El ...
On the 26th July 1936, Adolf Hitler informed General Francisco Franco that Germany would support his Nationalist rebellion in ...
On the 25th July 1965, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performed at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric ...
Often referred to as the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in ...
On the 23rd July 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two ...
On the 22nd July 1706, the foundation for the establishment of the Kingdom of Great Britain was laid when commissioners from England and Scotland agreed the Acts of ...
The Franco-Prussian War began with a declaration of war by the French emperor, Napoleon ...
On the 18th July 1925, the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s rambling racist manifesto Mein Kampf – which translates as My Struggle or My Battle – was first ...
In the early hours of the 17th July 1918 the Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot dead in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the Russian city of ...
The Islamic calendar was dated to start with the first new moon after the Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated to ...
Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS ...
American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New ...
At 12 noon on the 13th July 1985, an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people tuned in to watch Live Aid, the “global jukebox” broadcast live from Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in ...
July 12th 927 is the closest we have to a foundation date for England, when all the kings of Britain met at Eamont Bridge, near Penrith in Cumbria, to swear an oath of peace under the overlordship of ...
The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place on July 11th 1962 when the Telstar satellite relayed an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in ...
On the 10th July 1553, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen of England after her first cousin once removed, the 15-year-old King Edward VI, died of an unknown respiratory ...
The 9th July 1877 saw the world's first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in ...
Walter Haut, the public information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, issued a press release saying that the military had recovered the remains of a ‘flying ...
If you ever claimed that something was the greatest thing since sliced bread, you’re referring to a very particular date – the 7th July ...
On the 6th July 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles met for the first time at the St. Peter's Church garden fête in Woolton, ...
The United States continues to be the world’s largest consumer of Spam, with the luncheon meat being a particularly big seller in ...
Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice's Adventures in ...
By the time Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 1989, it had become one of the CIA’s longest and most expensive covert ...
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, ...
Approximately 23,000 Union soldiers and 28,000 Confederates were killed, wounded, or captured in just three ...
With the aid of a 26 foot long balancing pole, he crossed the gorge in a stunt taking just 23 ...
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first ...