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Global2019
On this day (07/14), 7 years ago: A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
The GippsAero GA8 Airvan is a single-engined utility aircraft manufactured by GippsAero of Victoria, Australia. - summary
Global2018
On this day (07/25), 8 years ago: As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
The 2018 Suwayda attacks were a string of suicide bombings and mass shooting incidents in Suwayda, Syria on 25 July 2018. - summary
Global2007
On this day (08/01), 19 years ago: The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
The bridge opened in 1967, and was Minnesota's third busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily. - summary
Global2005
On this day (07/29), 21 years ago: Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. - summary
Global2001
On this day (07/14), 25 years ago: Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducted his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.
He lodged two appeals against his conviction, both of which were unsuccessful. - summary
China1989Protests
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students and workers occupied Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reforms before military suppression ended the movement.
The Chinese government terms the events the political turmoil between the spring and summer of 1989. - summary
Israel1987Protests
Stones, strikes, and a region forever changed.
On December 8, 1987, a traffic accident in Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp killed four Palestinian workers. - summary
United States1974Elections
Power, paranoia, and the presidency's ultimate accountability reckoning.
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee's offices at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. - summary
Germany1930Elections
The Nazi party's stunning electoral surge in Depression-era Germany signaled the crisis of liberal democracy and democracy's near-fatal vulnerability.
Several articles in several parts of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany govern elections and establish constitutional requirements such as the secret ballot, and the requirement that all elections be co… - summary
Australia1901Launches
Six squabbling colonies finally agreed on something: unity.
For over a century, the Australian colonies had operated independently-New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania each governing their own affairs while nominally under Bri… - summary
United Kingdom1898Wars
British forces under Kitchener decisively defeated the Mahdist State at Omdurman, consolidating imperial control over Sudan and marking the zenith of British colonial military power.
Conflict duration: Mahdist War lasted 1881–1899 - key fact
Brazil1888Elections
Brazil became the last Western nation to abolish slavery, ending three centuries of institution under mass abolitionist protest and pressure.
The importation of African slaves began midway through the 16th century, but the enslavement of indigenous peoples continued well into the 17th and 18th centuries. - summary
United States1886Protests
Four men were hanged on November 11, 1887 (Parsons, Spies, Fischer, Engel); Louis Lingg died by suicide in his cell hours before execution on November 10; two had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment (Schwab … - summary
France1852Elections
Louis-Napoléon's plebiscite transformed the Second Republic into an authoritarian empire, reshaping Paris and French political culture.
The French electorate had grown weary of the Second Republic's instability, and Bonaparte capitalized on Bonapartist nostalgia, economic anxiety, and the specter of socialist unrest that had haunted the nation since t… - summary
United States1830Wars
Jackson's forced relocation policy displaced thousands of Native Americans and exemplified systematic ethnic cleansing.
During the presidency of Jackson (1829–1837) and his successor Martin Van Buren (1837–1841), more than 60,000 American Indians from at least 18 tribes were forced to move west of the Mississippi River where they w… - summary
United States1823Elections
President James Monroe stood before Congress on December 2, 1823, and outlined a principle that would define American foreign policy for two centuries: the Western Hemisphere belonged to the Americas, not Europe. - summary
England1687Tech launches
The book that made the universe make sense.
On July 5, 1687, the Royal Society of London officially licensed the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica-the Principia-a 510-page Latin treatise that rewrote the rules of how the … - summary
Egypt1457Wars
Thutmose III's victory over the Canaanite coalition stands as the ancient world's most documented military campaign with strategic precision.
All details of the battle come from Egyptian sources—primarily the hieroglyphic writings on the Hall of Annals in the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak, Thebes, by the military scribe Tjaneni. - summary
Turkey/Syria/Iraq1380Wars
Documented military campaigns and cuneiform records of chariot-based warfare establish the earliest fully attested inter-imperial conflict with strategic commanders and logistics.
It is characterized by a long tradition of canonized images and motifs rearranged, while still being recognizable, by artists to convey meaning to a largely illiterate population.“Owing to the limited vocabulary of fi… - summary
Global1040Festivals
Major Islamic religious observance during pivotal decades of Seljuk and Norman expansion.
Although there are many Rammans, such as the Jak Ramman, one of the most popular is the masked Ramman of the Saloor Dungra village of the Painkhanda Valley in the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, India. - summary