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Hannibal’s army inflicted a devastating defeat on the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of ...

George, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of Great ...

The astronauts visited geological features near the Apollo 15 landing site in the Hadley-Apennine region, collected samples, and deployed scientific experiments, while television images transmitted from the rover allowed audiences on Earth to observe the ...

La Marseillaise was composed by a French army officer and was originally called the ‘War Song for the Army of the Rhine’ with the aim of rallying soldiers fighting in Strasbourg during the French Revolutionary ...

James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was forced to abdicate in favour of her young son a month after she was ...

British officials regarded the Acadian population as a security risk and, on 28 July, Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence and his council resolved that the Acadians should be removed and dispersed among Britain’s North American ...

Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the Merrie Melodies cartoon A Wild ...

The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in ...

The Brunswick Manifesto declared that, rather than conquering France, the invading armies sought to restore lawful authority in the country and warned that any attack on the royal family would bring “exemplary and ever memorable vengeance”, threatening the city of Paris with destruction if its inhabitants resisted the advancing armies or continued to detain the ...

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War in the area around the Ypres Salient, and features more than 54,000 ...

Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath ...

The Comte Jules-Albert de Dion’s steam tractor crossed the finish line first but the judges concluded that his vehicle required too much support to satisfy the competition’s objectives, so the principal prize was shared between the manufacturers Panhard et Levassor and Peugeot, whose petrol cars were considered the most practical ...

John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in ...

The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm ...

Combining an iron hull with screw-propeller propulsion, SS Great Britain was the largest ship afloat at the time of its launch and introduced technologies that would influence ocean-going ships for the remainder of the nineteenth ...

Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in ...

The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and ...

The new banknotes were welcomed because they were lighter, easier to carry, and more convenient for trade. The bank also found that paper currency encouraged greater commercial ...

By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were ...

The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven ...

FIFA president Jules Rimet organised football’s own independent international championship, with Uruguay as the host nation due to Uruguay’s victories in the Olympic football tournaments of 1924 and 1928, as well as the country’s willingness to finance the event during the centenary celebrations of its first ...

Moscow’s Trinity Church, later renamed Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat and better known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, was ...

The Hollywood Bowl opened in Bolton Canyon near Los ...

Yeltsin swore to uphold the constitution and protect the rights of Russian citizens, emphasising political reform and democratic ...

Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, made a secret trip to China to meet with Premier Zhou ...