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World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service near…
Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of DC Comics, made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true super
During an exercise to demonstrate air power, United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft intercepted the Italian ocean
On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the…
On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the…
The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential…
The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential…
CBS Radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds", a radio drama that newspapers accused of tricking Americans into…
CBS Radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds", a radio drama that newspapers accused of tricking Americans into…
Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm tha
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike
The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a
The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop…
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable…
Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use…
Six days after retiring from the Queen's College, Oxford, Robert Howard Hodgkin was elected its provost due to the…
Former British king Edward and his wife arrived at Berlin Friedrichstraße station to begin a tour of Nazi Germany,…
Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial…