History

The Battle of the Coral Sea, which began on May 4, 1942, during World War II, marked one of the...

On 4 May 1494, explorer Christopher Columbus arrived on the island now known as Jamaica during his second voyage across...

Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaeda and the architect behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the...

On 1 May 1840, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, was officially issued in England, marking the...

On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler died by suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin as Nazi Germany faced total...

On this day in 1943, one of the most daring deception operations of the Second World War reached a critical...

France’s Fifth Republic faced a defining political moment in April 1969 when President Charles de Gaulle resigned following a decisive...

On 26 April 1964, the independent states of Tanganyika and Zanzibar formally united to create the United Republic of Tanzania,...

When Akira Kurosawa’s landmark film Seven Samurai was released in Japan, it marked a turning point not only for Japanese...

In a landmark moment for Central America, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was sworn in as President of Nicaragua, marking the...