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The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first ...

The world’s first transcontinental telephone line was successfully voice tested between New York and San ...

Having paid in advance for an expensive contract in which local businessman Rajyadhar Konai agreed to build a new road, Herschel chose to take the full hand print of the contractor as his commitment to honour the ...

Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the Merrie Melodies cartoon A Wild ...

Both Hitler and Mussolini were concerned about the risk of the Spanish Civil War escalating into a European-wide conflict, so at first their support for the Nationalists was small-scale and consisted mainly of transporting existing Spanish troops from Morocco to the mainland. As the war progressed their involvement ...

French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air ...

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers from the First World War in the area around the Ypres Salient, and features more than 54,000 ...

Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath ...

Wartime gasoline rationing began in seventeen ...

John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in ...

The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm ...

The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New ...

Despite its initially poor reception, Mein Kampf became a popular book with hundreds of thousands of copies sold each year after Hitler became Chanceller of Germany in ...

The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and ...

The explosion was equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT, and the blast-wave was felt by civilians up to 160 miles ...

The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space ...

The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven ...

The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte ...

Æthelstan was the son of Edward the Elder and the grandson of Alfred the Great. His ancestors had already carved large chunks from Viking lands as far north as the River Humber which led them to refer to themselves as ‘king of the Saxons’ or ‘king of the ...

The Hollywood Bowl opened in Bolton Canyon near Los ...