On 24 March 1989 the 1,000-foot-long oil supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a (well-marked) reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons…
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In 1982 – after years of failed negotiations – Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and the unthinkable happened – Britain went to war. The Islands…
The war in Vietnam ended abruptly on 30 April 1975. Saigon surrendered almost without a struggle as North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the city and…
In the 1980s American farmers were confronted by a crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. Many who depended on agriculture for their…
On 3 May 1951, King George VI opened the Festival Of Britain in London, an artistic and cultural festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of…
20 April 1992 “We’re here to celebrate the life and work and dreams of one Freddie Mercury,” said a clearly emotional Brian May, addressing the…
America had not seen such a star-spangled day in years. Washington DC was particularly festive and exuberant, with flags and banners fluttering gaily above the…
November 22 – 25, 1963 (USA) Air Force One touched down at Andrews Air Force on 22 November a little after 6 pm, a mere two…
Sydney (Australia) father Basil Thorne and his wife Freda won £100,000 in one of the first Opera House lotteries on 1 June 1960, and they…
Infamous ‘Granny Killer’ John Wayne Glover began his reign of terror at Mosman in Sydney’s north, murdering six elderly women over a 13-month period in…
Tuesday 18 January 1977 started as an ordinary working day in Sydney, Australia. Then at 8:12 am, the 6:09 city-bound express commuter train from Mt…
In the early hours of 8 August 1963 an armed gang of 15 men held up the overnight Glasgow-to-London Travelling Post Office train in what…
On 26 May 1972, 50,000 people descended at Tupholme Manor Park just outside the rural Lincolnshire village of Bardney (located ten miles from Lincoln) to…
In the early 1980s, NATO decided that RAF Greenham Common near Newbury in Berkshire would become one of two sites to host the US Air…
The US Government sent over 6,000 American troops to invade Grenada on 25 October 1983 after leaders of a local ”Revolutionary Military Council” (RMC) ousted…
Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, declaring that Kuwait was now the 19th province of Iraq. The justification was an old territorial claim on the…
Halley’s Comet has been observed by our ancestors since 240 BC. The comet is significant in that it can be seen from the earth by…
On Sunday 25 May 1986, Americans were asked to simultaneously hold hands across a 4,137-mile route stretching from California’s Santa Monica Pier to New York’s…
In October 1956, Hungary rose in revolt against Soviet domination. Thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom…
1 July 1969 The title “Prince of Wales” has traditionally been bestowed to the male heir apparent of the English or British monarch since Edward…