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Global1999
On this day (08/02), 27 years ago: The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
The Gaisal train collision occurred on 2 August 1999, when two trains carrying about 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal in West Bengal, India. - summary
Global1996
On this day (07/28), 30 years ago: The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
Prehistory, sometimes referred to as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. - summary
United States1995Tech launches
Microsoft's Windows 95 introduced the graphical interface to mass consumers, making personal computing accessible and establishing the template for modern desktop operating systems.
It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. - summary
Poland1980Protests
Lech Wałęsa led striking workers at the Lenin Shipyard to form Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc and a catalyst for Eastern European liberation.
Solidarity, a Polish non-governmental trade union, was founded on August 14, 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards by Lech Wałęsa and others. - summary
United States1974Elections
Power, paranoia, and the presidency's ultimate accountability reckoning.
What looked like a routine burglary became something far larger when journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at The Washington Post began tracing the break-in to President Richard Nixon's reelection committee. - summary
Global1968
On this day (08/02), 58 years ago: An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
The 1968 Casiguran earthquake occurred on 04:19:22 local time on August 2 with a moment magnitude of 7.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). - summary
Germany1939Tech launches
The Heinkel He 178's maiden flight proved jet propulsion viable, upending aviation and military technology forever.
A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas that generates thrust by jet propulsion. - summary
Germany1936Sports
Nazi officials invested approximately 100 million Reichsmarks—an enormous sum for Depression-era Germany—to construct new stadiums, including the 100,000-seat Olympiastadion designed by Werner March. - summary
United States1920Elections
The ratification of the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, completing a multi-decade struggle for political equality.
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the… - summary
Switzerland1906Tech launches
The world's longest tunnel at completion (12.3 miles), Simplon connected Switzerland to Italy and represented a major feat of Alpine engineering and European rail integration.
The first tunnel is 19,803 m (64,970 ft) long; the last tunnel is 19,824 m (65,039 ft) long, making it the longest railway tunnel in the world for most of the twentieth century, from 1906 until 1982, when the Daishimi… - summary
Israel1897Revolutions
Herzl turned antisemitic despair into political machinery.
Theodor Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian journalist and playwright, had spent the previous years developing and promoting his vision of a Jewish homeland as the solution to European antisemitism. - summary
Germany1892Tech launches
Rudolf Diesel's engine patent introduced a high-efficiency power source that transformed transportation, manufacturing, and global commerce.
Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus. - summary
United Kingdom1821Disasters
The blast was so violent it was heard across a radius of several miles, and the damage to this 11th-century structure was extensive enough to render significant portions uninhabitable. - summary
France1804Elections
Napoleon's self-coronation as Emperor formalized his seizure of absolute power and triggered decades of European warfare.
Napoleon's was a sacred ceremony held in the great cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in the presence of Pope Pius VII. - summary
United Kingdom1796Tech launches
Jenner's inoculation with cowpox initiated modern immunology and established vaccination as the foundation of public health.
The machine aesthetic label is used in architecture and other arts to describe works that either draw the inspiration from industrialization with its mechanized mass production or use elements resembling structures of… - summary
Kingdom of Poland1543Tech launches
Copernicus published his heliocentric model, displacing Earth from the cosmic center and launching the scientific revolution.
In physical cosmology, the phrase may be used to refer to the emergence and formalization of the Copernican principle that humans are not privileged observers of the universe. - summary
Ottoman Empire1453Wars
The Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine capital ended the millennium-old Eastern Roman Empire and redrew the map of Europe and the Mediterranean.
One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour of the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed. - summary
Italy509 BCEFestivals
The ceremonial opening of the Roman Forum established the civic, commercial, and political center of the Republic, marking Rome's transition from monarchy to democratic institutions.
A forum was a public square in a municipium, or any civitas, of ancient Rome reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls. - summary
Global130000 BCETech launches
Advanced stone tool kits including spear-throwers and composite weapons represent humanity's most significant technological breakthrough of the Middle Paleolithic era.
The term Middle Stone Age is used as an equivalent or a synonym for the Middle Paleolithic in African archeology. - summary
