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Parliament declared Jane a usurper. She was tried on charges of high treason and found to be guilty for having signed official documents as ‘Jane the Queen’. She was beheaded the following ...

Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, made a secret trip to China to meet with Premier Zhou ...

From its high of 381.17 on September 3, 1929, the Dow plummeted by almost 90 per cent to 41.22 on July 8, ...

The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, the first international treaty that dealt with wildlife conservation issues, was ...

John Lennon was playing guitar with his skiffle band, The Quarrymen, who were performing on a bill alongside the Liverpool police dogs display team and the Band of the Cheshire ...

The bikini swimsuit was introduced for the first time, four days after an atomic test at the Bikini ...

Although the station was uncensored in that that it shared information that was suppressed within the Communist Bloc, it was am important propaganda tool founded and funded by the US ...

British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World ...

The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin and is consequently viewed as a landmark piece of civil rights ...

The German gunboat SMS Panther was sent to the Moroccan port of Agadir, sparking the Second Moroccan ...

The 999 service was launched in London on 30 June 1937, and initially covered a 12 mile radius from Oxford ...

The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first ...

The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in ...

Seven of the ship’s eighteen officers, including Giliarovsky and the Captain, were killed in the mutiny before the Tsar's forces launched a crackdown at the Odessa ...

Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit ...

The forces of the Plains Indians outnumbered Custer's troops, and they wee caught in a pincer movement after Crazy Horse led another group of Sioux to surround ...

Napoleon's Grande Armée began its failed invasion of Russia when it crossed the Neman River in what Russians refer to as the Patriotic War of ...

The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in ...

Galileo was sentenced to house arrest where he remained for the final nine years of his ...

King Louis XVI of France and his family were caught attempting to escape Paris during the Flight to ...