1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War 1918 – Manfred von […]
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world. 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in […]
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. 1899 – The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria. 1902 – The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake […]
1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and […]
DEC 17, 1965: Just 5 weeks after the illegal declaration of independence by Rhodesia, the British government has tightened the screws on the rebel colony by imposing oil sanctions and asking other countries to join […]
1911: Roald Amundsen’s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. Using a route along the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier, they arrived […]
NAAFI, the ubiquitous British military retail operation which has seen action in almost every theatre of war is 100-years-old today. To mark the occasion, the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes is selling a selection […]
The Brinks-Mat robbery was the biggest heist in the history of British crime. The audacious robbery occurred at the Heathrow International Trading Estate, London, on 26 November 1983. The haul was £26,369,778 worth of gold, […]
The Russian Tu-154 aircraft, developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, completed its last scheduled passenger flight on Wednesday. “We are sad to announce the completion of the operation of the only Tu-154 aircraft […]
The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took place in Ulm, Germany on this day in 1944. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of […]
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