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3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand (Wed, Sep 03, 2025)

2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade (Tue, Sep 02, 2025)

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War (Mon, Sep 01, 2025)

31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water (Sun, Aug 31, 2025)

30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt (Sat, Aug 30, 2025)

29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction (Fri, Aug 29, 2025)

28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (Thu, Aug 28, 2025)

27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States (Wed, Aug 27, 2025)

26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces (Tue, Aug 26, 2025)

25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles (Mon, Aug 25, 2025)

24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum (Sun, Aug 24, 2025)

23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe (Sat, Aug 23, 2025)

22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end (Fri, Aug 22, 2025)

21st August 1911: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre in Paris (Thu, Aug 21, 2025)

20th August 1975: NASA launches Viking 1, the first spacecraft to land on Mars and transmit images of the surface back to Earth (Wed, Aug 20, 2025)

19th August 1934: The first All-American Soap Box Derby held in Dayton, Ohio (Tue, Aug 19, 2025)

18th August 1612: The trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches begin (Mon, Aug 18, 2025)

17th August 1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell published in the United Kingdom (Sun, Aug 17, 2025)

16th August 1819: An estimated 15 protestors are killed in the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Field in Manchester (Sat, Aug 16, 2025)

15th August 1965: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City, in front of a crowd of over 55,000 people (Fri, Aug 15, 2025)

14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union (Thu, Aug 14, 2025)

13th August 1521: Aztec Empire ends with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés (Wed, Aug 13, 2025)

12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer (Tue, Aug 12, 2025)

11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs (Mon, Aug 11, 2025)

10th August 1961: United States begins Operation Ranch Hand to destroy trees and crops during the Vietnam War (Sun, Aug 10, 2025)

9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment due to the Watergate Scandal (Sat, Aug 09, 2025)

8th August 1786: Mont Blanc was successfully climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (Fri, Aug 08, 2025)

7th August 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by the United States Congress (Thu, Aug 07, 2025)

6th August 1945: The United States drop an atomic bomb nicknamed ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay (Wed, Aug 06, 2025)

5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins, marking the first major engagement of the First World War (Tue, Aug 05, 2025)

4th August 1789: The August Decrees result in the National Constituent Assembly of France voting to abolish the feudal system (Mon, Aug 04, 2025)

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on the voyage that takes him to the Americas (Sun, Aug 03, 2025)

2nd August 1940: No. 303 Squadron, one of two Polish RAF squadrons in the Battle of Britain, formed at RAF Northolt (Sat, Aug 02, 2025)

1st August 1944: Warsaw Uprising begins in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War (Fri, Aug 01, 2025)

31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins (Thu, Jul 31, 2025)

30th July 1916: German agents trigger a major explosion at the Black Tom munitions depot in New Jersey to stop supplies to the Allies (Wed, Jul 30, 2025)

29th July 1976: David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, committed his first known murder in the Bronx, New York City (Tue, Jul 29, 2025)

28th July 1939: Ornate Anglo-Saxon helmet uncovered at the Sutton Hoo burial site in Suffolk, England (Mon, Jul 28, 2025)

27th July 1942: Allied forces in North Africa stop the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein (Sun, Jul 27, 2025)

26th July 1945: Britain, the USA, and China issue the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan (Sat, Jul 26, 2025)

25th July 1965: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival (Fri, Jul 25, 2025)

24th July 1847: Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley to begin the foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah (Thu, Jul 24, 2025)

23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries (Wed, Jul 23, 2025)

22nd July 1793: Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first recorded person to cross North America north of Mexico (Tue, Jul 22, 2025)

21st July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War, takes place in Virginia (Mon, Jul 21, 2025)

20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France (Sun, Jul 20, 2025)

19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII (Sat, Jul 19, 2025)

18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California (Fri, Jul 18, 2025)

17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg (Thu, Jul 17, 2025)

16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar (Wed, Jul 16, 2025)

15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks (Tue, Jul 15, 2025)

14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett (Mon, Jul 14, 2025)

13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people (Sun, Jul 13, 2025)

12th July 1790: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy passed by the National Constituent Assembly of France (Sat, Jul 12, 2025)

11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite (Fri, Jul 11, 2025)

10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France (Thu, Jul 10, 2025)

9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London (Wed, Jul 09, 2025)

8th July 1497: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on the first known voyage to India from Europe (Tue, Jul 08, 2025)

7th July 1928: Pre-sliced and wrapped bread first sold by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri (Mon, Jul 07, 2025)

6th July 1988: Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed by a series of explosions in the deadliest offshore oil disaster in history (Sun, Jul 06, 2025)

5th July 1865: United States Secret Service established in Washington, D.C., by the Department of the Treasury (Sat, Jul 05, 2025)

4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland (Fri, Jul 04, 2025)

3rd July 1973: David Bowie announces the end of Ziggy Stardust during a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London (Thu, Jul 03, 2025)

2nd July 1881: American President James A. Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau (Wed, Jul 02, 2025)

1st July 1979: Sony Corporation releases the Walkman portable cassette player in Japan (Tue, Jul 01, 2025)

30th June 1894: Tower Bridge in London officially opened by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII (Mon, Jun 30, 2025)

29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground (Sun, Jun 29, 2025)

28th June 1935: United States approves the construction of a vault to hold the country’s gold reserves at Fort Knox, Kentucky (Sat, Jun 28, 2025)

27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea (Fri, Jun 27, 2025)

26th June 1794: French army makes the first recorded military use of an aircraft for reconnaissance during the Battle of Fleurus (Thu, Jun 26, 2025)

25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD (Wed, Jun 25, 2025)

24th June 1509: Henry VIII crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey in London (Tue, Jun 24, 2025)

23rd June 1757: British East India Company troops defeat the Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey (Mon, Jun 23, 2025)

22nd June 1942: The words of the Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress (Sun, Jun 22, 2025)

21st June 1675: Foundation stone laid for the new St Paul’s Cathedral in London following the Great Fire of London (Sat, Jun 21, 2025)

20th June 1948: The Western Allies introduce the Deutsche Mark in the three western zones of occupied Germany (Fri, Jun 20, 2025)

19th June 1949: The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race takes place at Charlotte Speedway (Thu, Jun 19, 2025)

18th June 1984: The Battle of Orgreave takes place between miners and police officers during the UK miners’ strike (Wed, Jun 18, 2025)

17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal (Tue, Jun 17, 2025)

16th June 1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space on board Vostock 6 (Mon, Jun 16, 2025)

15th June 1970: Trial of Charles Manson begins in Los Angeles, California, for conspiracy to commit murder (Sun, Jun 15, 2025)

14th June 1777: Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Resolution and adopts the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States (Sat, Jun 14, 2025)

13th June 313: The Edict of Milan formally ends the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (Fri, Jun 13, 2025)

12th June 1942: Anne Frank receives her famous diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father (Thu, Jun 12, 2025)

11th June 1963: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest again the government of Ngô Đình Diệm (Wed, Jun 11, 2025)

10th June 1829: The first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race takes place at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire (Tue, Jun 10, 2025)

9th June 68: Emperor Nero commits suicide (Mon, Jun 09, 2025)

8th June 1968: James Earl Ray arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport in connection with the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (Sun, Jun 08, 2025)

7th June 1832: The Great Reform Act becomes law, significantly changing the electoral system of the UK (Sat, Jun 07, 2025)

6th June 1822: ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’ William Beaumont first treats Alexis St Martin (Fri, Jun 06, 2025)

5th June 1963: John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, resigns following a political scandal caused by his extramarital affair (Thu, Jun 05, 2025)

4th June 1411: King Charles VI of France grants the exclusive right to ripen Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon (Wed, Jun 04, 2025)

3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz (Tue, Jun 03, 2025)

2nd June 1896: Guglielmo Marconi files a patent application for his system of wireless telegraphy (Mon, Jun 02, 2025)

1st June 1946: Ion Antonescu, the former Prime Minister of Romania, executed by firing squad (Sun, Jun 01, 2025)

31st May 1916: Battle of Jutland begins in the North Sea, marking the largest naval battle of the First World War (Sat, May 31, 2025)

30th May 1899: Female bandit Pearl Hart and her partner, Joe Boot, commit one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies (Fri, May 30, 2025)

29th May 1660: Charles II restored to the English throne, marking the end of over a decade of republican rule (Thu, May 29, 2025)

28th May 1754: Battle of Jumonville Glen in Pennsylvania marks the beginning of the French and Indian War (Wed, May 28, 2025)

27th May 1703: The foundation of St Petersburg by Tsar Peter the Great (Tue, May 27, 2025)

26th May 1923: First 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race begins, establishing the endurance racing format (Mon, May 26, 2025)

25th May 1977: The first Star Wars film is released in cinemas (Sun, May 25, 2025)

24th May 1943: Josef Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death, transferred to Auschwitz (Sat, May 24, 2025)

23rd May 1949: West Germany formally established, otherwise known as the Federal Republic of Germany (Fri, May 23, 2025)

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent (Thu, May 22, 2025)

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman (Wed, May 21, 2025)

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (Tue, May 20, 2025)

19th May 1922: Young Pioneer organisation formally established in the USSR (Mon, May 19, 2025)

18th May 1848: The Frankfurt Parliament opens at St. Paul’s Church as the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany (Sun, May 18, 2025)

17th May 1756: The Seven Years’ War begins, when Great Britain formally declares war on France (Sat, May 17, 2025)

16th May 1960: The first laser was successfully operated by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California (Fri, May 16, 2025)

15th May 1940: The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in San Bernadino, California (Thu, May 15, 2025)

14th May 1878: The last witchcraft trial in the United States was held in Salem, Massachusetts (Wed, May 14, 2025)

13th May 1861: Queen Victoria issues a “Proclamation of Neutrality” concerning the American Civil War (Tue, May 13, 2025)

12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California (Mon, May 12, 2025)

11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions (Sun, May 11, 2025)

10th May 1869: The ‘Golden Spike’ completes the first transcontinental railroad in the United States at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory (Sat, May 10, 2025)

9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels (Fri, May 09, 2025)

8th May 1950: The Tollund Man, who lived in the 5th century BC, discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg in Denmark (Thu, May 08, 2025)

7th May 1794: Cult of the Supreme Being formally announced by Robespierre in a meeting of the National Convention (Wed, May 07, 2025)

6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries (Tue, May 06, 2025)

5th May 1789: The Estates General meets at Versailles, near Paris, for the first time in 175 years (Mon, May 05, 2025)

4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students (Sun, May 04, 2025)

3rd May 1921: Partition of Ireland divides Ireland into two separate political entities (Sat, May 03, 2025)

2nd May 1670: Hudson’s Bay Company established with a royal charter from King Charles II of England (Fri, May 02, 2025)

1st May 1776: The forerunner of the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt (Thu, May 01, 2025)

30th April 1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty concluded between the United States and France (Wed, Apr 30, 2025)

29th April 1587: Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard (Tue, Apr 29, 2025)

28th April 1967: Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, refuses induction into the United States Army (Mon, Apr 28, 2025)

27th April 1945: Benito Mussolini, the former Fascist dictator of Italy, captured by Italian partisans in northern Italy (Sun, Apr 27, 2025)

26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender (Sat, Apr 26, 2025)

25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said (Fri, Apr 25, 2025)

24th April 1932: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in the Peak District protests against limited access to open countryside (Thu, Apr 24, 2025)

23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria (Wed, Apr 23, 2025)

22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres (Tue, Apr 22, 2025)

21st April 1526: First Battle of Panipat marks the beginning of Mughal rule in India and the end of the Lodi dynasty (Mon, Apr 21, 2025)

20th April 1965: Houston Astrodome’s skylight windows painted to reduce glare from the sun (Sun, Apr 20, 2025)

19th April 1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War (Sat, Apr 19, 2025)

18th April 1942: The Doolittle Raid marks the first American air operation to strike the Japanese mainland (Fri, Apr 18, 2025)

17th April 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion launched by Brigade 2506 (Thu, Apr 17, 2025)

16th April 1746: The Battle of Culloden takes place near Inverness, Scotland, ending the Jacobite Rising of 1745 (Wed, Apr 16, 2025)

15th April 1861: President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to suppress the growing insurrection in the southern states (Tue, Apr 15, 2025)

14th April 70 CE: Titus begins the Siege of Jerusalem (Mon, Apr 14, 2025)

13th April 1953: Project MK-Ultra human experimentation program granted approval by Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA (Sun, Apr 13, 2025)

12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge (Sat, Apr 12, 2025)

11th April 1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his commands in Korean and Japan (Fri, Apr 11, 2025)

10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy (Thu, Apr 10, 2025)

9th April 1860: First known audio recording made by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph (Wed, Apr 09, 2025)

8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name (Tue, Apr 08, 2025)

7th April 1739: Legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin executed in York after being convicted of horse theft (Mon, Apr 07, 2025)

6th April 1917: The USA declares war on Germany in WW1 (Sun, Apr 06, 2025)

5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America (Sat, Apr 05, 2025)

4th April 1841: US President William Henry Harrison dies 32 days after taking office, ending the shortest presidency in US history (Fri, Apr 04, 2025)

3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford (Thu, Apr 03, 2025)

2nd April 1877: Zazel performs the first recorded human cannonball act at the Royal Aquarium in London (Wed, Apr 02, 2025)

1st April 1918: Royal Air Force formally established in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service (Tue, Apr 01, 2025)

31st March 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially completed and inaugurated in Paris for the Exposition Universelle (Mon, Mar 31, 2025)

30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris (Sun, Mar 30, 2025)

29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam (Sat, Mar 29, 2025)

28th March 1979: British Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a vote of no confidence by a single vote (Fri, Mar 28, 2025)

27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines (Thu, Mar 27, 2025)

26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store (Wed, Mar 26, 2025)

25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their first “Bed-In for Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)

24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia (Mon, Mar 24, 2025)

23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII (Sun, Mar 23, 2025)

22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris (Sat, Mar 22, 2025)

21st March 1871: Otto von Bismarck formally appointed first Chancellor of the German Empire (Fri, Mar 21, 2025)

20th March 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his Hundred Days as ruler of France following his escape from Elba (Thu, Mar 20, 2025)

19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Wed, Mar 19, 2025)

18th March 1921: Kronstadt Rebellion ends following a final assault by Bolshevik forces (Tue, Mar 18, 2025)

17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel II (Mon, Mar 17, 2025)

16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom (Sun, Mar 16, 2025)

15th March 1848: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 begins in Pest, marking the start of a nationwide movement against Habsburg rule (Sat, Mar 15, 2025)

14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA (Fri, Mar 14, 2025)

13th March 624: Battle of Badr sees the first major engagement between the early Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca (Thu, Mar 13, 2025)

12th March 1938: Nazi German troops cross the border to annex Austria in an event known as the Anschluss (Wed, Mar 12, 2025)

11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas (Tue, Mar 11, 2025)

10th March 1762: The execution of Jean Calas prompts debates on religious intolerance and judicial injustice in France (Mon, Mar 10, 2025)

9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free (Sun, Mar 09, 2025)

8th March 1736: Nader Shah formally crowned as the ruler of Iran, marking the start of the Afsharid dynasty (Sat, Mar 08, 2025)

7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler (Fri, Mar 07, 2025)

6th March 1933: Eleanor Roosevelt holds her first press conference as First Lady of the United States (Thu, Mar 06, 2025)

5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri (Wed, Mar 05, 2025)

4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)

3rd March 1938: First commercial quantities of oil discovered in Saudi Arabia after engineers drill Dammam Well No. 7 (Mon, Mar 03, 2025)

2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine (Sun, Mar 02, 2025)

1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park (Sat, Mar 01, 2025)

28th February 1993: The Waco siege against the Branch Davidian Church begin in Texas (Fri, Feb 28, 2025)

27th February 1900: Labour Representation Committee founded, marking the start of what would later become the British Labour Party (Thu, Feb 27, 2025)

26th February 1935: Daventry Experiment proves the ability of using radio waves to detect aircraft, heralding the development of radar (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)

25th February 1932: Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship, having been stateless for seven years and unable to run for public office (Tue, Feb 25, 2025)

24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act (Mon, Feb 24, 2025)

23rd February 1903: US President Theodore Roosevelt leases Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in perpetuity (Sun, Feb 23, 2025)

22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard (Sat, Feb 22, 2025)

21st February 1804: World’s first recorded locomotive-hauled railway journey takes place at the Penydarren Ironworks in South Wales (Fri, Feb 21, 2025)

20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland as a wedding dowry (Thu, Feb 20, 2025)

19th February 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to place Japanese Americans in internment camps (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)

18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)

17th February 1936: ‘The Phantom’ comic strip published for the first time, widely regarded as the first costumed superhero (Mon, Feb 17, 2025)

16th February 1937: Organic chemist Wallace Carothers is awarded a patent for nylon (Sun, Feb 16, 2025)

15th February 1965: Canada officially adopts its national flag of a red maple leaf on a white square between two vertical red bars (Sat, Feb 15, 2025)

14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth (Fri, Feb 14, 2025)

13th February 1945: Allied bombing of Dresden begins during the final months of World War II (Thu, Feb 13, 2025)

12th February 1963: Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. (Wed, Feb 12, 2025)

11th February 1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Tue, Feb 11, 2025)

10th February 1940: First Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (Mon, Feb 10, 2025)

9th February 1895: Volleyball invented by William G. Morgan (Sun, Feb 09, 2025)

8th February 1950: The Stasi formally established in East Germany as the Ministry for State Security (Sat, Feb 08, 2025)

7th February 1964: The Beatles arrive in the United States for their first appearance on national television (Fri, Feb 07, 2025)

6th February 1819: Modern Singapore established with the signing of the Treaty of Singapore (Thu, Feb 06, 2025)

5th February 1924: Greenwich time signal ‘pips’ broadcast by the BBC for the first time (Wed, Feb 05, 2025)

4th February 1703: Forty six of the Forty-Seven Rōnin commit seppuku after avenging the death of their master (Tue, Feb 04, 2025)

3rd February 1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper killed in a plane crash known as ‘The Day the Music Died’ (Mon, Feb 03, 2025)

2nd February 1925: Great Race of Mercy delivers diptheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled relay (Sun, Feb 02, 2025)

1st February 1968: Viet Cong Captain Bảy Lốp executed by General Loan (Sat, Feb 01, 2025)

31st January 1918: Battle of May Island damages and sinks Royal Navy vessels during accidental collisions in thick fog (Fri, Jan 31, 2025)

30th January 1661: Oliver Cromwell posthumously executed, two and a half years after his death (Thu, Jan 30, 2025)

29th January 1886: Karl Benz patents his Motorwagen, widely regarded as the world’s first automobile (Wed, Jan 29, 2025)

28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)

27th January 1967: The Outer Space Treaty that is the basis for all space laws opened for signatures (Mon, Jan 27, 2025)

26th January 1998: US President Bill Clinton tells a White House press conference he “did not have sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky (Sun, Jan 26, 2025)

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game (Sat, Jan 25, 2025)

24th January 41: Caligula is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard (Fri, Jan 24, 2025)

23rd January 1795: French cavalry capture 14 Dutch warships at Den Helder during the War of the First Coalition (Thu, Jan 23, 2025)

22nd January 1506: Pope Julius II formally establishes the Pontifical Swiss Guard as the personal bodyguard of the Pope and the Vatican (Wed, Jan 22, 2025)

21st January 1908: Sullivan’s Ordinance in New York prohibits women from smoking in public places (Tue, J 21, )(an 03:05:45 2025, +0000)

20th January 1949: Shirley Temple given a tear gas fountain pen by J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, during the inauguration of Harry Truman (Mon, Jan 20, 2025)

19th January 1883: World’s first electric lighting system using overhead wires activated in Roselle, New Jersey (Sun, Jan 19, 2025)

18th January 1871: Wilhelm I of Prussia proclaimed the first German Emperor (Sat, Jan 18, 2025)

17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War (Fri, Jan 17, 2025)

16th January 1547: Ivan the Terrible formally crowned as the first Tsar of Russia (Thu, Jan 16, 2025)

15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston (Wed, Jan 15, 2025)

14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii (Tue, Jan 14, 2025)