On this day in 1917 British Army Council Instruction Number 1069 formally establishes the British Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) authorizing femal...
King Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges stating that a General Church Council with superior power to the Pope must be held every 10 years
Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
European colonization of the Americas first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick
Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
For the first time in history women are enrolled into the United States Military Academy at West Point New York. On May 28 1980 62 of these female cadets gr...
On the morning of July 7 2005 bombs are detonated in three crowded London subways and one bus during the peak of the citys rush hour. The synchronized...
President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day OConnor an Arizona court of appeals judge to be the first woman Supreme Court justice in U.S. history. On...
On this day in 1930 construction of the Hoover Dam begins. Over the next five years a total of 21000 men would work ceaselessly to produce what would be the ...
On this day in 1942 Heinrich Himmler in league with three others including a physician decides to begin experimenting on women in the Auschwitz concentratio...
A battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division leaves Saigon in the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops. The 814 soldiers were the first of 25000 troops that were...
On this day in 1912 Jim Thorpe wins the pentathlon at the fifth modern Olympics in Stockholm Sweden. At the time Thorpe a Native American who attended Penns...
On this day in 1946 James Earl Jimmy Carter marries Eleanor Rosalynn Smith at the Plains Methodist Church in Plains Georgia. When the couple met...
Warren Earp the youngest of the famous clan of gun fighting brothers is murdered in an Arizona saloon.Nicholas and Virginia Earp raised a family of five sons ...
Mary Surratt is executed by the U.S. government for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincolns assassination.Surratt who owned a tavern in Surrattsv...
Samantha Smith an 11-year-old American girl begins a two-week visit to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. Some American observ...
On this day the Unions Lt. Colonel Christopher Kit Carson leaves Santa Fe with his troops beginning his campaign against the Indians of ...
A series of bomb attacks on Londons transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. Three explosions on the Underground le...
Two people have been stabbed and many more injured in running battles between white and Asian gangs in Bradford.Violence broke out in the city centre at 163...
The Ugandan authorities have denied knowledge of the whereabouts of British-Israeli citizen Dora Bloch.The 74-year-old grandmother disappeared three days ago...