1841 events
The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginn
The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginn
The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U
The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U
The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic withi
Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Op
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Pha
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX (co-author Patsy Mink pictured) into law as part of the Education Amendments, pr
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Troubles: Hours after the British Army's Operation Motorman brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of…
President Idi Amin announced the expulsion of Asians from Uganda.
In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th…
Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt…
Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Canadian ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in the Summit Series.
Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense
Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the…
The Troubles: British forces began arresting and interning suspected Irish republican militants in Northern Ireland.
Following a failed coup attempt, Mao Zedong's second-in-command Lin Biao died in a plane crash while attempting to…