Palestinian guerrillas, members of the ‘Black September’ group, broke into the Israeli athletes’ compound at the Munich Olympics on 5 September 1972. Over 250 plain-clothes…
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“Bloody Sunday” was the name given to the events of Sunday 30 January 1972 when 13 unarmed demonstrators in the Bogside area of Londonderry, Northern…
Beginning in 1949, for one week a year in April, all Scout groups across Britain ‘hired out’ their Scouts and Cubs for “Bob-a-Job week”, issuing…
On 26 April 1986, the Number 4 reactor of the V.I. Lenin nuclear power station at Chernobyl (situated in Ukraine, which was part of the…
Wednesday 29 September 1982 is a day etched into the history of Chicago and the state of Illinois for all the wrong reasons. With Survivor’s…
America in the 1950s was a place of deep division. Racism reigned supreme, with the Deep South having legalised racial segregation through the Jim Crow…
The term ”Cold War” was first used by Bernard Baruch, advisor to US President Truman, in a speech made in April 1947. He spoke about…
The founders of communism promised a new kind of state based on fairness and equality. Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet communism moved a long…
On 20 April 1999, two teenagers, Dylan Klebold (17) and Eric Harris (18), walked into their school, Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado, with their…
1 9 8 8 – Current (UK) Exploiting the talents of comedians and comic actors from various generations and backgrounds, Comic Relief has been described as a Children…
Before 1960 the Congo was a Belgian colony. It became independent on 30 June 1960 and the country was soon thrown into chaos. The Belgian government…
1 9 5 3 (UK) The British nation came to a standstill on 2 June 1953. Thousands lined the streets of London, while in homes and…
In 1959 a revolution took place in Cuba and Fidel Castro came to power. He introduced a Soviet-style government on the island and he looked…
The excitement of Christmas Eve 1974 was turned into stark horror in Darwin, Australia, as the killer wind of Cyclone Tracy struck in the night…
On 5 September 2003, American magician and illusionist David Blaine began an endurance stunt in which he was sealed inside a transparent 3 feet (0.9…
The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on Saturday 6 September 1997, drew reported television viewing figures of 2.5 billion worldwide, making it the most-watched…
In 1966, plans were introduced in Britain for conversion to decimal currency. After five years of planning and with a public fearful of the outcome,…
By the end of 1957, Elvis Presley was the unchallenged King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. With nine US chart-topping hits behind him (achieved in less…
A fifth Australian television channel began broadcasting on Channel 0 in Sydney and Melbourne on Friday 24 October 1980 – United Nations Day. Bruce Gyngell,…
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition – or Expo 67, as it was commonly known – was a World’s Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 27 April…