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John Barton "Bart" King was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. King was part of the Philadelphia team that played from the end of the 19th cen…
Bart King, American cricketer (born 1873)
William Patton Black Jr. was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll. He played in Elvis Presley's early trio, the Blue Moon Boys. …
Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader (born 1926)
Muriel George was an English singer and film actress. She appeared in 55 films between 1932 and 1955. George also appeared on the variety stage and sang on radio with her second hu…
Muriel George, English singer and actress (born 1883)
Hans Meerwein was a German chemist. Several reactions and reagents bear his name, most notably the Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction, the Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement, the Meerw…
Hans Meerwein, German chemist (born 1879)
Travers John Heagerty, known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor who specialised in portraying slightly bumbling but amiable and likeable…
Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (born 1874)
Edward Willis Redfield was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes o…
Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (born 1869)
Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood…
Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (born 1949)
Thomas Graham Brown FRS was a Scottish mountaineer and physiologist, most famous for finding three new routes up the east face of Mont Blanc.
Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (born 1882)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed…
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (born 1888)
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected
Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen was an Egyptian-born Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965, where he developed close relationships with the Sy…
Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publ
The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation or Borneo confrontation was an armed conflict from 1963 to 1966 that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the state of Malays…
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Saraw
Cairo International Airport is a major international airport serving Cairo and its metropolitan area. It is the largest and busiest airport in Egypt. The airport serves as the prim…
While attempting to land at Cairo International Airport, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashed for unknown
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
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The Viet Cong (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-led armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. It was formally organized as and le…
Fighting began between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the larg
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the pri…
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, the commander of the South Vietnam Air Force, was appointed prime minister at the head of a military regi
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 was a scheduled domestic flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, via Prince George, Fort St. John, Fort …
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 was destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor w…
South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo (pictured)—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries…
Mattachine Midwest was a gay rights organization active in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was established in 1965 during the homophile movement and for several years operated…
Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights organization in Chicago, held its first meeting.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's …
U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other…
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlyi…
The state of Singapore (flag pictured) was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict…
Singapore, officially the State of Singapore, was one of the 14 states of Malaysia from 16 September 1963 to 9 August 1965. At the time of merger, Singapore was a British colony an…
The State of Singapore (flag pictured) separated from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict…
The Rhodesian mission in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, operated from September 1965 to May 1975. It was a diplomatic mission representing Rhodesia, initially as a self-governing…
Portugal accepted a diplomatic mission from Southern Rhodesia despite objections by Britain, which had required the…
The Indonesian National Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Indonesia. It consists of the Army (TNI-AD), Navy (TNI-AL), and Air Force (TNI-AU). The President of…
Seven Indonesian National Armed Forces officers, six of them generals, were murdered at dawn by a rebellious force in…