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Soviet Union1991Revolutions
When reforming a superpower accidentally demolishes it instead.
The Soviet Union's dissolution wasn't a sudden rupture but a managed unraveling that accelerated through 1991. - summary
Global1990
On this day (07/26), 36 years ago: The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics … - summary
Global1985
On this day (08/12), 41 years ago: Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747, crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, becoming the worst single-plane air disaster.
Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. - summary
India1984Protests
Indira Gandhi's Assassination
Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister, was assassinated at 9:30 AM on 31 October 1984 at her residence in Safdarjung Road, New Delhi by her two bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, after the Indian Armed Forces c… - summary
United Kingdom1982Wars
Argentina's invasion of the British Falkland Islands sparked a ten-week conflict that reshaped geopolitics in the South Atlantic and tested Cold War alignments.
The Falklands War was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South … - summary
Israel1979Wars
Carter brokered peace. Begin and Sadat actually signed it.
The deal's core terms were straightforward but seismic: Israel would withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, which it had occupied since 1967, returning it fully to Egyptian control by April 1982. - summary
Global1977
On this day (08/12), 49 years ago: The Sri Lanka Riots, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
In the elections, the party stood for secession. - summary
Cambodia1975Revolutions
The Khmer Rouge takeover initiated one of the 20th century's most devastating genocides, killing approximately two million Cambodians in a failed agrarian utopia.
Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. - summary
South Africa1960Protests
South African police opened fire on Black demonstrators protesting apartheid pass laws, killing 91 and igniting decades of intensified anti-apartheid resistance.
The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then U… - summary
Indonesia1955Protests
The Bandung Conference of April 1955 brought together leaders from 29 Asian and African nations-most freshly liberated from colonial rule-to a conference in Indonesia's second-largest city. - summary
Korea1950Wars
North Korea's sudden invasion of the South triggered the Korean War, drawing the United Nations and superpowers into a three-year conflict that split the peninsula permanently.
The DPRK did not declare war before the invasion and rushed to encircle and eventually capture Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the ROK within a week. - summary
Austria1950Wars
Five years after Nazi defeat, Austria's most notorious death camp was formally recognized as a memorial site, anchoring postwar reckoning with genocide.
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria. - summary
Global1947Revolutions
Two nations, one bloodbath, zero plan for what came next.
On August 15, 1947, British India ceased to exist. - summary
France1946Festivals
Established as a rival to Venice, Cannes became cinema's most prestigious festival and shaped global film culture for decades.
Cannes is considered one of the "Big Three" European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. - summary
Germany1933Elections
Hitler's appointment as Chancellor following the March 1933 elections effectively ended Weimar democracy and opened the pathway to Nazi totalitarianism and World War II.
The flag was also used by the German Empire from 1848 to 1849. - summary
Germany1930Elections
The 1930 German federal election delivered a seismic Nazi victory that shattered Weimar's center and accelerated the political collapse that would bring Hitler to power within three years.
A federal election was held in Germany on 14 September 1930 to elect the fifth Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. - summary
United States1925Protests
In the spring of 1925, Tennessee had just passed the Butler Act, a law making it illegal to teach any theory that denied the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible. - summary
United States1921Disasters
But on May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator operated by Sarah Page, a 17-year-old white woman. - summary
France1914Wars
Decisive WWI engagement that halted the German advance and established the Western Front stalemate, shaping four years of industrial warfare.
The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. - summary
United States1906Tech launches
Reginald Fessenden's Christmas Eve transmission marked the first wireless broadcast of voice and music, launching the radio age.
The history of radio had many contributors, beginning with the scientific discovery of electromagnetic radiation in the late 1800s, followed by technological development of improved devices for producing and receiving… - summary