This Constitution of the Year III established a bicameral legislature and a five-man Directory that wielded executive ...

Seabiscuit’s victory at Pimlico elevated him to the status of a national icon as his story of overcoming poor beginnings and repeated setbacks resonated strongly with the American ...

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 ...

The Grand National Assembly in Ankara declared the creation of the Republic of Turkey and, in a unanimous vote, Mustafa Kemal was chosen as ...

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 cost of maintaining horses, riders, and remote relay stations far outstripped revenues from postage fees, while government subsidies dried up after Congress chose to instead begin funding the ...

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 ...

On 23 October 1956, thousands of students marched through Budapest calling for political reforms, free elections, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Over the next few weeks the revolution was brutally put ...

Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute ...

The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ...

Construction began in March 1959 but the project, located on Bennelong Point overlooking Sydney Harbour, soon ran into difficulties before finally opening on 20 October ...

When Abyssinia was finally captured on 5 May, all the sanctions were ...

European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda ...

The Japanese used approximately 60,000 POWs, mainly British, Dutch, Australian, and American, to construct the railway alongside an estimated 180,000 to 250,000 Asian civilians. It is estimated that around 12,000 Allied prisoners and up to 90,000 civilians died during ...

The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General ...

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 ...

The twelve stories that make up The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were originally serialised between July 1891 and June 1892, and included cases such as “A Scandal in Bohemia,” and “The Adventure of the Speckled ...