Anne Boleyn – once described as a brilliant, pure, and injured woman – was crowned Queen of England on this day in 1533. Henry VIII’s stormy marriage to her, and her execution by beheading, made […]
Mariner 9 was launched today in 1971. It was an unmanned NASA space probe that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the Mariner program. The craft was launched toward Mars […]
1985: The Heysel Stadium disaster will haunt all those who saw it for the rest of their days. The match that was billed as a feast of football, turned into a living nightmare. It occurred […]
1953: Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Hillary was acclaimed as national hero in Britain and in his native New Zealand, where the Deputy […]
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 – the famous German fighter aircraft that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe’s fighter force flew for the first time on this day in 1935. It saw operational service in 1937 […]
Rust showed how easy it was for a foreign aircraft to fly through one of the world’s most heavily guarded airspace to within kamikaze distance of the Kremlin. 1987: Mathias Rust, a West German teenage […]
1940: The capture of Narvik by the Allies was announced in the following joint Admiralty and War Office communique: Information has been received this morning that Narvik was captured last night by Allied forces and […]
1930: New York has opened her stunning new 78-storey structure to the public. The Chrysler Building, which was completed in 1929, is the tallest building in the world—higher than the Eiffel Tower —rising 1,030 feet […]
1941: It was announced by the Admiralty last night that the Bismarck—the unsinkable —has been sunk, and thus the British Navy has avenged the loss of H.M.S. Hood The Bismarck was being hotly pursued, and […]
1942: Reinhard Heydrich, known as the “Butcher” for his harsh treatment of the Czechs, has been shot in Prague. The Nazi would die a week later from the wounds inflicted on him while he was […]
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