16 March 1968 Between 0700 and 1100 on the morning of 16 March 1968, members of “Charlie” Company, US 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment, entered…
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Young British men in the 1950’s were confronted by the daunting prospect of being “called up” for National Service. Under the terms of the National…
The Mandela Day Concert staged on 11 June 1988 at London’s Wembley Stadium was organised by Special AKA main man Jerry Dammers and Britain’s Artists…
The 1964–1965 World’s Fair in New York was conceived by a group of local businessmen who remembered their childhood experiences at the 1939 New York…
As with President Kennedy’s assassination or the moon landing, ask pretty much any American what they were doing when former American football star O J…
In his sporting prime, Orenthal James Simpson – a.k.a. The Juice – was an American institution. Born in San Francisco in 1947, he played American…
The Odyssey Pop Festival was a significant three-day event held from 22 to 24 January 1971 in Wallacia, New South Wales, about 40 miles west…
On 19 April 1995, a bomb in a Ryder rental truck exploded outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City in the US, killing 168…
The events in Paris of May 1968 – Les événements – are part of the collective memory of French society. The trouble had begun when police forcibly…
The 1979 Conservative Party election manifesto promised reforms to local tax laws in Great Britain. The resulting Community Charge legislation was due for implementation on…
In August 1968, tanks from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary crossed the border into Czechoslovakia to crush what was known as “the Prague…
John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War and member for Stratford-on-Avon was a charming and respected Tory politician who was educated at Harrow…
Around midnight on 10 July 1985, French secret service agents bombed the Greenpeace environmental patrol ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand’s Auckland harbour, ripping apart the…
On 16 January 1979, a young Ukrainian woman jumped from the Russian cruise ship Leonid Sobinov in Sydney Harbour wearing only a red bikini. 18-year-old Lillian…
In a desperate attempt to prevent a third consecutive Tory victory at the looming General Election, Red Wedge – a coalition of Socialist-minded pop stars…
Cold War America was a hotbed of fear and suspicion of possible Communist infiltrators and spies – known as ‘the enemy within’ – and the…
Wednesday 29 July 1981 (UK) “I just absolutely thought I was the luckiest girl in the world” Diana later said of her wedding day. Around the globe, over 700…
In 1994, in the space of just 100 days, over 800,000 people were slaughtered during the Rwanda genocide. The population of the country at the…
On 21 March 1960, a group of up to 20,000 people in the township of Sharpeville (in the Transvaal Province of South Africa) gathered to…
An eleven-day siege at Ruby Ridge in Boundary County, Idaho, began on 21 August 1992 when deputies of the US Marshals Service attempted to apprehend…