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The students seized 66 hostages, 14 of whom were released before the end of the crisis. The other 52 hostages were held for 444 ...

The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of ...

Zionists regarded the Balfour Declaration as an important recognition of their national aspirations, while many Palestinian Arabs argued that it threatened their political and national ...

The public saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for the first time when Pope Julius II celebrated All Saints Day ...

The Lincoln Highway connected New York City on the East Coast to San Francisco on the West Coast, traversing 13 states along the ...

“Humbug Billy”, bought his stock from the confectioner Joseph Neal who made peppermint lozenges using powdered gypsum in place of some of the relatively expensive sugar, but he mistakenly added arsenic ...

His promotion to brigadier general on 27 October 1954 came six years after President Truman ordered the desegregation of the US military, and made him the first African American general in the US Air ...

The gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place between the Earp brothers and a gang of outlaws in Tombstone, ...

Due to miscommunication and a lack of clear orders Lord Cardigan led the Light Brigade, a cavalry unit consisting of approximately 670 horsemen, in a frontal assault against a fortified Russian artillery position at the end of the ...

Taylor had a specially constructed barrel built of oak, reinforced with iron bands, and fitted with internal padding. She survived the plunge with just some bruising and a small cut to her ...

The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich ...

The Granville–Paris Express train ran across the station platform in Paris, crashed through a 60cm wall, and fell 10 metres to the street below after it overran the buffer stop at the Gare Montparnasse ...

The breakthrough came when the team used carbonised cotton thread as a filament. A lamp that was initially illuminated on 21st October stayed lit for more than thirteen hours, providing evidence that a practical incandescent lamp was ...

Maria Theresa inherited the Austrian throne, prompting the War of the Austrian ...

After seventeen years, the Second Punic War was finally brought to an end with the decisive victory of the Roman general and consul Scipio Africanus over Hannibal at the Battle of ...

Instruments on board Venera 4 measured temperature, pressure, and the composition of the surrounding gases, with the results transmitted by radio to receiving stations on ...

Once the beer began to pour into the street, it quickly began to fill the cellars of nearby houses in which families lived, killing eight ...

The light cruiser HMS Southampton and the destroyer Mohawk were damaged, while sixteen Royal Navy sailors died and 44 were ...

Napoleon was exiled to the island of St Helena, situated roughly halfway between Africa and South America, where he lived for six years before his ...

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...

As she was accompanied through the Members’ Lobby, Travers Symons broke away from her escort and burst into the chamber where MPs were debating a bill regarding issues related to ...

Cyrus the Great’s Persian forces defeated the Babylonians at the Battle of Opis before entering Babylon on 12 October, bringing the Neo-Babylonian Empire to an end. He subsequently incorporated Mesopotamia into the Persian Empire while preserving Babylon’s importance as a major ...

The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant ...

At around 6am on 10 October the hurricane made landfall at Barbados in the Lesser Antilles, where it unleashed its full fury as it moved through the ...

Charles opened the fifth session of the Cavalier Parliament in the Great Hall at Christ Church College in Oxford, having left London to escape the Great ...