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…
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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…
The term “Irangate” was used to describe the 1987 US political scandal involving senior members of the Reagan administration (the name echoes the Nixon administration’s Watergate). Congressional hearings in 1986…
Iraq had, since 1970, enjoyed a fluctuating relationship with Syria, sometimes distant and sometimes close enough to contemplate a complete political and economic union. By…
The United States led an international coalition in a military invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the…
A small island separated from the UK mainland by the waters of the Solent, the Isle of Wight at the end of the 1960s was…
On 4 May 1970, four students, two of them girls, were killed by shots fired by the National Guard who were called in to control…
At the end of World War II, Korea – formerly occupied by Japan – was divided along the 38th Parallel. In the north, the Russians installed…
The Greek cruise ship TSMS Lakonia left Southampton on 19 December 1963 for an 11-day Christmas cruise of the Canary Islands. She carried 646 passengers…
A series of benefit concerts dubbed ‘Live 8’ took place in the G8 states and South Africa on 2 July 2005, organised by Bob Geldof…
On 25 November 1984, 36 British recording artists gathered at a studio in Notting Hill, London, to donate their time and talent to a song…
Pan Am flight 103 – a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas – left London Heathrow Airport at 6:25 pm on 21 December 1988 en…
In February 1954, actress Marilyn Monroe travelled to Korea to entertain the American troops stationed over there. Marilyn was asked if she wanted to do…
When Martin Luther King – the pastor who believed in nonviolent protest – addressed the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC on…
This British strike against pit closures – arguably the most bitter industrial dispute in British history – lasted almost a year from April 1984. The…
The most memorable musical event of 1967 was the Monterey International Pop Festival, held in the Californian sunshine over three days between June 16th -…
It seemed the whole world had stopped. Then, clear as crystal, came those immortal words . . . “That’s one small step for man -…
On 28 February 1975, a tube train rammed into the end of a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate on the London Underground, killing the driver and…
The XXII Olympiad took place in Moscow in the Soviet Union between 19 July and 3 August 1980. The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in…
Stephen Adrian Lawrence (born 13 September 1974) was an 18-year-old black British student from Woolwich, southeast London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack…