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John Hancock, one of Boston’s wealthiest merchants and a leading figure in Boston politics, forcibly removed customs officials from his ship ...

The sculpture, believed to represent the goddess Aphrodite, was was uncovered by a farmer named Yorgos Kentrotas near the remains of an ancient theatre close to the village of ...

The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainstorm eventually led to the cancellation of the ...

The 1896 Summer Olympics laid down many traditions including the first competitive marathon ...

The blast, which was broadcast live on television, broke apart the submerged peaks of the Ripple Rock underwater mountain, sending 635,000 metric tons of rock and water 300 metres into the ...

King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several ...

The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in ...

The release of 2001: A Space Odyssey marked an important moment in the development of cinematic science fiction, combining large-scale visual effects with a narrative that addressed themes of human evolution, artificial intelligence, and space ...

Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use to take that power in ...

The Kaiser’s speech in Tangier was a direct challenge to the French Foreign Minister, Théophile Delcassé, who had previously secured wide European support for control of ...

One bullet struck Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady, another wounded District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty, and a third struck Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy as he attempted to shield the president. Nevertheless a fourth bullet ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and entered Reagan’s left side under his ...

The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, ...

The refusal of the Communards to accept the authority of the French government led to the Commune being brutally suppressed by the regular French army in May during ‘The Bloody ...

Khrushchev had already been elected First Secretary of the Communist Party, and his later rise to Chairman of the Council of Ministers placed both the party leadership and the government administration under his direct ...

The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 ...

The EEC, sometimes referred to as the Common Market, survived until 2009 when it was absorbed into the European ...

Koch's announcement that he had identified the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis strengthened the emerging “germ theory” of disease, which argued that many illnesses were caused by microorganisms rather than by environmental or hereditary factors ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United ...

Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vigilant regarding the chest’s contents which led his wife and maid-servant to propose a plan to smuggle him out by hiding him inside ...

Following its enactment on 21 March 1804, the Napoleonic Code became the foundation of the French legal system and was gradually extended to territories under French control during the Napoleonic ...

Bismarck submitted his resignation on 18 March, two days before formally leaving office, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing his ...

Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the Billboard 100. The album sold less than 5,000 copies in its first year and earnt Dylan the nickname ‘Hammond’s Folly’ from record ...

At approximately 10:34 a.m. Moscow time, Alexei Leonov floated outside the spacecraft Voskhod 2 and remained there for just over twelve ...

A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end ...

Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ...