1841 events
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was…
The Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong was liberated following the announcement of the surrender of Japan in World…
The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed by Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta , igniting a revolution against the Dutch…
World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied…
Dozens of Jews were injured in the Topoľčany pogrom, one of the worst episodes of anti-Jewish violence in postwar…
World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek
World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek
Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Oper
World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and th
World War II: A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505 (pictured)
World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing
Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied veh
Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the J