French Indochina was captured by the Japanese during WWII. After 1945 the French tried unsuccessfully to restore their rule in Vietnam, and in 1954 they…
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At 2.30 am on 17 June 1972, during the lead-up to the 1972 American presidential elections, five intruders broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices…
Between November 1978 and March 1979, British Public Sector workers went on strike in response to the government’s 5% limit on pay rises, in an…
On 29 January 1966, a 57-year-old cleaner was brutally slain as she worked alone in the Piccadilly Arcade in Wollongong, NSW (Australia). The mutilation of Wilhelmina…
It remains the defining assembly of rock music – an unprecedented gathering of at least 300,000 young, long-haired, raggedy-clad Americans “going up the country” in…
This American music festival was held between 12 – 14 August 1994 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival of 1969. The…
Like Woodstock ’94, this was an attempt to emulate the original 1969 Woodstock festival, and like the previous festivals, it was held in upstate New…
White balls, bright uniforms, night matches, batsmen and bowlers paid and acting like celebrities . . . it’s just not cricket! World Series Cricket (WSC),…
In addition to debating whether 2000 or 2001 would mark the “real” beginning of the new millennium, the Western World pondered the effect the Y2K…