Significant events that happened on this day.
The tests, code-named Chagai-I, were conducted in the Chagai Hills of Balochistan. Pakistan became the seventh nation to publicly demonstrate nuclear...
Rust flew from Helsinki through heavily guarded Soviet airspace and landed his small plane right next to the Kremlin walls, shocking the world. The em...
The organization was established at the first meeting of the Palestinian National Council with the goal of liberating Palestine through armed struggle...
Benenson was outraged by a newspaper article about Portuguese students jailed for seven years simply for raising a toast to freedom. He published an a...
The rhesus monkey Able and squirrel monkey Baker were launched aboard a Jupiter missile and reached an altitude of 360 miles. They experienced nine mi...
Originally called Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens, the company was created to produce an affordable 'people's car' for German...
The five identical sisters were born two months premature to a poor farming family and weighed a combined 13.5 pounds. They became instant celebrities...
The avant-garde music and provocative choreography shocked Parisian theatergoers so much that fistfights broke out during the performance. The audienc...
Muir established the organization to 'explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth.' Starting with just 182 charter members, it grew into...
Led by white officer Robert Gould Shaw, this regiment of Black soldiers proved their courage despite facing discrimination and lower pay than white tr...
This controversial legislation led to the Trail of Tears, where thousands of Native Americans died during forced migration from their ancestral lands....
The Greek philosopher Thales had predicted this eclipse, making it the earliest eclipse recorded in history with a specific date. The terrified soldie...
