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Global2010
On this day (07/25), 16 years ago: WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. - summary
Global2010
On this day (07/28), 16 years ago: Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
On 28 July 2010, the Airbus A321 jet airliner serving the flight crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, while approaching Benazir Bhutto International Airport. - summary
United States2005Disasters
Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana on August 29, 2005, as a Category 3 storm with winds exceeding 125 mph. - summary
Global2005
On this day (08/02), 21 years ago: Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames, leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
On the afternoon of 2 August 2005, while landing at Pearson airport, the Airbus A340 operating the route overran the runway and crashed into nearby Etobicoke Creek, approximately 300 m (1,000 ft) beyond the end of the… - summary
Israel1993Wars
The handshake that changed everything. For about five minutes.
That changed on September 13, 1993, when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, with U.S. - summary
China1989Protests
Troops began moving toward the square, but initial attempts to clear it stalled when soldiers encountered roadblocks built by residents and protesters. - summary
Global1983
On this day (05/20), 43 years ago: First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
The CDC had first reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia cases in Los Angeles gay men in June 1981, followed by reports of Kaposi's sarcoma in the same population. - summary
United States1980Elections
Reagan's landslide victory and rightward realignment signaled the end of postwar liberalism and reshaped American conservatism for decades.
Bush defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent president Jimmy Carter and vice president Walter Mondale, and the Independent ticket of Congressman John B. - summary
Global1977
On this day (07/13), 49 years ago: Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
As one of Africa's most ethnically homogeneous countries, around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis. - summary
China1976Disasters
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake flattens the industrial city of Tangshan in seconds, killing an officially estimated 240,000 people—one of the deadliest seismic events in modern history.
In minutes, 85 percent of the buildings in Tangshan collapsed or were rendered unusable, all services failed, and most of the highway and railway bridges collapsed or were seriously damaged. - summary
Japan1975Tech launches
Sony's Betamax launch ignited a decadelong consumer electronics battle that would ultimately reshape home video distribution and establish VHS dominance.
417 (1984), also known as the "Betamax case", is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for purposes of time shifting does no… - summary
West Germany1948Wars
Stalin's gambit was straightforward: squeeze the Western-occupied sectors of the divided city into submission, force the Allies out, and hand all of Berlin to Soviet control. - summary
India1947Revolutions
Gandhi and Nehru's nonviolent independence movement ended 200 years of British colonial rule and created the world's largest democracy.
On August 15, 1947, India formally ceased to be a British colony, ending nearly two centuries of imperial rule that had begun with the East India Company's territorial expansion in the 1750s. - summary
United Kingdom1945Elections
Churchill's defeat by Attlee's Labour Party brought post-war welfare state reforms and marked Britain's transition from wartime to the modern social democracy.
With the ongoing Second World War still fresh in the minds of voters, the opposition Labour Party led by Clement Attlee won a landslide victory with a majority of 146 seats, defeating the incumbent Conservative-led go… - summary
United States1944Elections
Allied nations established the IMF, World Bank, and fixed exchange rate system at Bretton Woods, creating the financial order that governed the postwar world.
The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, in Bretton Woods, New … - summary
Monaco1929Sports
The Monaco Grand Prix established motorsport's most prestigious and technically challenging street circuit race.
Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, and is one of the races—along with the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans—that form the … - summary
Ireland1922Revolutions
The Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) had made British rule in Ireland untenable. - summary
Russian Empire1917Revolutions
The February 1917 uprising in Petrograd toppled Nicholas II and created a power vacuum that the Bolsheviks would exploit in October.
The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. - summary
Russia1917Revolutions
The October Revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power and established the first communist state, reshaping global politics.
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism and Leninism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. - summary
Turkey1915Wars
The Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians.
Ottoman soldiers and Kurdish auxiliaries killed hundreds of thousands en route; others died of hunger, thirst, and disease in the Syrian desert. - summary