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United States1963Protests
MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech before 250,000 marchers became the moral center of the American civil rights movement.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. - summary
West Germany1948Wars
On June 24, 1948, Soviet forces sealed off West Berlin from the outside world. - summary
Canada1927Launches
The CBC's establishment created Canada's first national public broadcaster and defined the country's broadcasting policy for the century.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. - summary
United Kingdom1924Elections
Ramsay MacDonald's election as UK Prime Minister marked the Labour Party's first ascent to power and shifted British politics left.
The first Labour government of the United Kingdom was formed by Ramsay MacDonald. - summary
Global1920Launches
The League of Nations convened for the first time on January 10, 1920, in Geneva, born from the wreckage of World War I and the idealism of U.S. - summary
Greece1600Disasters
The catastrophic volcanic explosion likely destroyed the Minoan civilization and may have inspired the Atlantis legend.
The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera circa 1600 BC. - summary
France1572Disasters
The coordinated slaughter of thousands of Huguenots across France exposed the brutal depths of religious sectarianism in early modern Europe.
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. - summary
Spain1492Launches
Columbus's transatlantic voyage initiated European colonization and irreversibly transformed global demographics, economies, and cultures.
Columbus Saints Drum and Bugle Corps is an all-age drum and bugle corps based in Columbus, Ohio. - summary
England1485Wars
Richard III's defeat ended the Wars of the Roses and established the Tudor dynasty, bringing stability and beginning early modern England.
The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England and Wales in the latter half of th… - summary
England865Wars
The Great Heathen Army's systematic conquest forced the partition of England and shaped the political geography and cultural identity of the British Isles.
The Viking Age was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. - summary
Italy79Disasters
The catastrophic eruption that preserved Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash provides an unparalleled snapshot of Roman daily life and remains the world's most archaeologically valuable natural disaster.
Mount Vesuvius is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. - summary
Iraq3200 BCETech launches
The invention of cuneiform in Sumer created the first written language, enabling record-keeping and administration that would define all literate civilization.
The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. - summary
Syria9650 BCEWars
One of the earliest known defensive structures in the world, with evidence of organized conflict and community coordination for collective defense.
Tell Aswad, Su-uk-su or Shuksa, is a large prehistoric, Neolithic tell, about 5 hectares (540,000 ft2) in size, located around 48 kilometres (30 mi) from Damascus in Syria, on a tributary of the Barada River at the ea… - summary
Iraq2750 BCEElections
Cuneiform records document the assembly of elders selecting successive kings, revealing Mesopotamia's earliest documented electoral process.
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, responsible for defending the country, the Crown Dependencies, and the Overseas Territories from naval attack or invasion. - summary
China2070 BCEWars
The legendary Battle of Mingtiao marks the first documented succession conflict in East Asia and the dawn of dynastic succession warfare.
Chinese is an umbrella term for all Sinitic languages, widely recognized as a collection of language varieties, spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China, as w… - summary
Puerto Rico2017Disasters
Category 5 Hurricane Maria inflicted catastrophic damage on Puerto Rico and exposed systemic vulnerabilities in disaster response and recovery.
Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that affected the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. - summary
Global2016
On this day (07/14), 10 years ago: A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and inju… - summary
Global2016
On this day (07/26), 10 years ago: The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
The Sagamihara stabbings were committed on 26 July 2016 in Midori Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan. - summary
United States2006Tech launches
AWS pioneered cloud computing infrastructure, fundamentally reshaping how software is built, deployed, and scaled globally.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. - summary
Global2001
On this day (09/17), 25 years ago: The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. - summary