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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian ...

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 ...

CONAD was replaced by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) in 1958, and NORAD Tracks Santa has reported Santa's location ever ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...