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Railroad companies found it difficult to coordinate train schedules and prevent accidents as trains crossed different regions with varied local times, so adopted a solution to divide the country into four distinct time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and ...

During Holmes’ time in Chicago, he owned a multi-story building that later became known as the “Murder Castle” thanks to sensationalist newspaper reports from the ...

The drownings at Nantes began when dozens of refractory priests were loaded onto adapted barges, which were taken to the middle of the Loire River and deliberately sunk, or the prisoners thrown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the coup, the Law of Brumaire established a new government under the direction of three consuls although Napoleon held the real power as First ...

While the Battle of White Mountain allowed Ferdinand II to reassert Habsburg control over the region, initiating a harsh re-Catholicization process and stripping the Bohemian nobility of their lands and privileges, the war grew into a pan-European conflict that caused up to 8 million military and civilian ...

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 ...

The mutiny quickly spread throughout the Kiel naval base, and within days tens of thousands of sailors and workers had joined the ...

Prior to the launch from Alexandra Palace in London, television had been in experimental stages. The BBC's launch of regular programming set a new standard for the medium and was a key part of the BBC’s broader mission to bring new forms of entertainment and information to the ...

The 26 year old Tsar Nicholas II inherited an autocratic government, which had long resisted democratic reforms, and a society that was increasingly dissatisfied with the existing ...

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 ...

Created by writer René Goscinny and illustrator Albert Uderzo, the story of Asterix is set in 50 B.C. and follows the adventures of the warrior Asterix from a small village in Gaul (modern-day France), during the time of the Roman Empire's ...

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 on Wall Street did slow down, the market continued its downward trajectory for over 2 ...

The battle of Edgehill was fought in Warwickshire between the Royalist forces of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian army under the command of the Duke of Essex, but it ended inconclusively at nightfall with heavy casualties on both ...

The trial began on 18 October 1910 and concluded on 22 October with the jury finding Crippen guilty of murder after just twenty-seven minutes of deliberations, having heard a case that relied heavily on forensic evidence including partial human remains discovered at his ...

The poorly equipped forces of the People's Crusade, who lacked cohesive leadership, were quickly overwhelmed by the experienced Seljuk cavalry with the battle turning into a massacre where tens of thousands of crusaders were ...

One of the key features of the Treaty of 1818 was the establishment of the 49th parallel as the boundary between the United States and British North America, from the Lake of the Woods in Minnesota in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the ...

They robbed three banks in St. Albans with the objective of seizing supplies and forcing the Union Army to divert forces from the ...

Félicette survived the flight after being secured inside a specially designed capsule on top of a Véronique AG1 rocket, which reached an altitude of about 157 ...

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 balloon was secured to the ground to limit its altitude and range, but it successfully lifted de Rozier to a height of approximately 25 ...

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 ...

Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa created Christ the Redeemer in collaboration with French sculptor Paul Landowski, and construction of the 30 metre tall statue took nine ...

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 Balkan League, which consisted of the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro, was encouraged by Ottoman military defeats in Libya to seize territory from the ...

Each worker was responsible for a specific task, and the car chassis moved along a conveyor belt to bring the work to the worker. This method minimized the time workers spent moving between tasks, thereby increasing productivity and reducing ...

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 ...

The demonstrators soon surrounded the palace and demanded an audience with the king, who met with a small delegation of women, but tensions escalated as the palace was broken into and some royal guards were beaten or even killed by the ...

The printing of the Coverdale Bible was made possible due to the support of English merchants and reformist sympathizers abroad. It made the scriptures accessible to English speakers, marking a significant moment in the Reformation and the spread of ...

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 ...

In return for the crusaders’ unconditional surrender, Saladin agreed that anyone who paid a ransom would be able to leave the city in ...

While heavy rain contributed to a smaller-than-expected crowd of 10,000 visitors on the first day, the Disney World quickly gained popularity and became a global ...

When Suleiman died at the age of 71 in 1566, he ruled over at least 25 million people and was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman ...

The Metropolitan Police, which is often considered to be the first modern police force, began operating in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Originally known as “Nintendo Koppai”, Fusajiro Yamauchi established the company to produce hanafuda, a type of traditional Japanese playing ...

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 first Cannes Film Festival was established to celebrate cinema and to promote cultural exchange between countries in the aftermath of World War ...

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 ...

Peter Strelzyk and Günter Wetzel, who had expertise in mechanics and construction, worked for nearly a year and a half to construct a balloon capable of carrying their families of four adults and four ...

Gilles de Rais was found guilty of murder, sodomy, and heresy after confessing to his involvement in the murder of children and engagement in occult practices, seeking power and knowledge through alchemy and the invocation of ...

Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the ...

An explosion propelled a tamping iron into Gage’s left cheek before it passed behind his left eye and exited through the top of his skull, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal ...

The Persians suffered over 6,000 casualties, while the Athenians lost only 192 men, leading to a decisive Athenian victory that saw the invaders retreat to their ...

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 ...

Designed by the Spanish engineer and naval officer Isaac Peral, the Peral submarine marked a significant development in naval technology as it featured a revolutionary propulsion system that used electric batteries to power a pair of 30hp electric ...

With the impressive Ganj-i-Sawai incapacitated, Every’s crew boarded the ship and looted the valuable cargo, which is estimated to have been worth hundreds of thousands of pounds at the ...

With Parliamentary troops searching the surrounding woodland, Royalist soldier William Careless suggested the king should hide in an oak tree, later known as the Royal ...

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 ...

With the prisons full of suspected counter-revolutionaries, the radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat urged the citizens of Paris to take up arms and eliminate these ‘enemies of the ...

In the early hours of September 1, while King Idris I was in Turkey receiving medical treatment, Gaddafi and the Free Officers Movement launched their coup that took control of key institutions in Tripoli and Benghazi, including military bases, government offices, and radio ...

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 ...

President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court on June 13, 1967, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 69 to 11 on August ...

Ishi, believed to be the last surviving member of the indigenous Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in ...

During a bank robbery in Stockholm, Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank workers hostage. They later began to exhibit sympathy towards their captors while becoming fearful of the police’s ...

The British bombardment was swift and devastating, setting Zanzibar's palace and its buildings ablaze and killing or wounding approximately 500 men and women. The war lasted for barely 40 ...

The world’s first large-scale, alternating current power plant began producing electricity at Niagara ...

Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the service was created when President Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on 25 August, ...

As the Kweilin Douglas DC-2 aircraft neared the city of Namyung in Guangdong province, it was intercepted by three Japanese Mitsubishi A5M fighters that opened fire on the unarmed civilian ...

The Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began in California’s Salinas ...

The First Geneva Convention mandated protection and care for wounded and sick military personnel, regardless of nationality, as well as recognising the neutrality of medical personnel, field hospitals, and ...

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 ...

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 Volksempfänger was simple and utilitarian, but made radio technology accessible to the general population and enabled it to be used as a means of disseminating Nazi ...

The world’s first commercially successful steamship was launched on the Hudson River between New York and ...

The levée en masse affected the entire population and represented an unprecedented move by a government, as it extended the responsibility of national defence beyond professional soldiers to the general ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...

The turning point came when the French flagship, L'Orient, caught fire and exploded. The massive blast illuminated the night sky and demoralized the French ...

The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable ...

Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...

The landscape was scarred by craters filled with water and, by the time the battle ended over three months later following the Canadian capture of the village of Passchendaele, there were approximately 500,000 casualties on both ...

The city of Baghdad was founded by the Abbasid Caliph ...

The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of ...

Bonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas ...

In an attempt to evade capture Robespierre only succeeded in shattering his jaw when he reputedly attempted to shoot himself with a pistol, and spent the rest of the night on a table in the Committee of General Security before he was executed by ...

President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. ...

Members of the Austrian Nazi Party, seeking to annex Austria into Nazi Germany, stormed the Chancellery building in Vienna where they shot and fatally wounded Dollfuss, who succumbed to his injuries later that ...

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 ...

The Free Officers, led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, launched a coup that seized key military installations and government buildings in Cairo with minimal ...

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 ...

Construction of the Aswan High Dam took just over ten years and cost nearly $1 ...

Weighing more than half a ton, the completed cheese was marked with the Jeffersonian motto ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God’ and was presented to President Jefferson on January 1, ...

The Franco-Prussian War began with a declaration of war by the French emperor, Napoleon ...

Riots broke out in the in the predominantly African-American community of Hough in Cleveland, ...

Amidst enormous anti-German sentiment during the First World War, King George V made a historic proclamation that all descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the male line, who were British subjects, would bear the surname ...

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 ...

Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS ...

While Hussein believed Britain had agreed to recognise a vast independent Arab state, the British maintained that certain areas were excluded. This ambiguity went on to fuel later tensions and conflict in the Middle ...

Over 100 people were killed in the riots and thousands more were injured. In addition, millions of dollars of damage was caused to buildings and ...

A resolution to create the U.S. Army Medal of Honor was authorised by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham ...

Hamilton’s death shocked the nation, as he was a leading figure in American politics and instrumental in the country’s ...

The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was measured at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SS United States secured the Blue Riband, an accolade awarded to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic with the highest average speed, and continues to hold the record to this ...

Dozens were killed or injured when Pinkerton agents working on behalf of the Carnegie Steel Company fought striking steelworkers in Homestead, ...

The United States continues to be the world’s largest consumer of Spam, with the luncheon meat being a particularly big seller in ...

By the time Mehmed VI became sultan following the death of his half-brother, the empire was on the brink of collapse due to a combination of military losses, economic hardship, and nationalist movements at ...

By the time Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 1989, it had become one of the CIA’s longest and most expensive covert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the speech effectively recognised East Berlin as part of the Soviet Bloc, it also reaffirmed America’s commitment to defend West Berlin against ...

North Korean troops launched a surprise and quickly advanced southward to capture Seoul, the capital of South Korea, within ...

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 ...

The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan ...

The enactment of the Second Naval Law represented an ambitious plan to double the size of the German fleet, but with the British Royal Navy having long been the world’s dominant maritime force Germany’s naval expansion was perceived as a direct challenge to British ...

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 ...

Drais’ Laufmaschine, which translates as ‘running machine’ featured two wheels mounted on a wooden frame and a steering mechanism controlled by ...

Once outside the prison walls, the three men inflated a homemade raft with a modified accordion and launched it into San Francisco ...

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 ...

Elvis Presley purchased Graceland for $102,500 in 1957 when he was 22 years ...

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 ...

Alse Young was executed for witchcraft in Hartford on 26th May ...

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 ...

The Battle of Alamance has since been seen by some as a precursor to the American ...

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[...]

The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This surge in immigration was primarily driven by economic opportunities in the United States, which was at the height of the industrial revolution. This combined with a desire among some to escape growing political instability in Europe, while ethnic and religious violence led Jews from the Russian Empire in particular to seek a new life[...]

Tally's Electric Theatre in Los Angeles proved incredibly popular with the public, and sparked a revolution in cinema history. Visit the excellent https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2019/02/electric-theatre.html for more detailed ...

Ninety-six Liverpool Football Club fans died and hundreds more were injured in a crush at Hillsborough Stadium in ...

The Black Sunday dust storm brought a massive wall of dust estimated to be over 2 miles high that engulfed entire communities in darkness and choking dust, reducing visibility to just a few ...

The resulting emergency led to the calm announcement by the crew of, ‘Houston we’ve had a ...

After suffering significant damage during the battle from more than 3,000 artillery rounds over 34 hours, at 2:30 p.m the following day Major Anderson and his men formally surrendered, and the Confederate forces took control of Fort ...

The Act made it illegal to discriminate regarding the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, or national ...

The explosion was estimated to be four times more powerful than the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, making it the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded ...

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 ...

Great Western’s maiden voyage crossed the Atlantic in a record time of 15 days and five ...

Eisenhower likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one ...

The National Convention established the Committee of Public Safety with the primary objectives of maintaining public order, managing the war effort against foreign powers, and rooting out perceived enemies of the ...

The first sighting coincided with Easter Sunday, so Roggeveen and his crew agreed to name the landmass Easter ...

The Nazi Party founded a paramilitary organisation that became the Schutzstaffel, better known as the ...

Walpole was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. This made him the de facto Prime Minister and, while the title was not officially recognized at the time, Walpole wielded considerable power and ...

With the cry of ‘bread or blood!’ the women marched to the city’s market district where they broke into government storehouses and nearby ...

While flying over France, the formations experienced high winds that blew them dramatically off ...

WrestleMania grossed a reported $12 million and, although reviews of the first event were mixed, it marked the start of the longest-running professional wrestling competition in ...

Evans’ excavation of the Linear B tablets at Knossos shed light on the complex and sophisticated nature of the Minoan ...

The Cumberland Road quickly became a vital artery for trade and transport, facilitating the movement of people, goods, and ideas between the eastern seaboard and the western ...

The incident at Three Mile Island heralded a dramatic shift in public attitudes towards nuclear power and the second reactor never returned to ...

The colossal earthquake, registering a magnitude of 9.2, struck Southcentral Alaska and is the most powerful on record in North America and the second-largest ...

Although the event was of little military importance overall, the chivalric nature of the battle was celebrated by chroniclers, balladeers, and artists, while survivors of the Thirty were held in held ...

The marchers arrived in Montgomery on 25 March, where King made his ‘How Long, Not Long’ speech to a crowd of more than 25,000 ...

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 ...

Elisha Otis was an American mechanic who invented the safety elevator, which featured a mechanism to prevent the platform from falling if the hoisting cable ...

The surprise attack was launched against English settlers by the the Powhatan Confederacy, led by Chief ...

By the time the concert began at 10pm on 21 March there were thousands of people outside the arena unable to get in who resorted to breaking through the ...

The party quickly built support and by 1856 it proved to be the dominant political force in the North when John C. Fremont, the first Republican presidential candidate, won 11 of the 16 Northern ...

The heist was masterminded by James Honeyman and James Murray entered the bank late at night on 19 March where they raided the vault and safe deposit boxes. Together they left with approximately $245,000 in bank notes and coins, which is the equivalent of more than $50 million ...