History
On this day in 1946: Sony Corporation was founded by Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio.
Founded in the aftermath of World War II by engineers Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio, Sony Corporation evolved from a...
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On this day in 1937: Hindenburg disaster shocks the world in flames and tragedy
On 6 May 1937, one of the most iconic disasters in aviation history unfolded in front of horrified spectators as...
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To the Lighthouse and the modern novel: how Virginia Woolf changed literary history
On 5 May 1927, English author Virginia Woolf published To the Lighthouse, a novel that would become one of the...
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On this day in 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea began during World War II
The Battle of the Coral Sea, which began on May 4, 1942, during World War II, marked one of the...
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On this day in 1494: Christopher Columbus encountered the island of Jamaica, which he named Santiago
On 4 May 1494, explorer Christopher Columbus arrived on the island now known as Jamaica during his second voyage across...
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On this day in 2011: Osama bin Laden killed in US special forces raid
Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaeda and the architect behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the...
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On this day in 1840: The world’s first postage stamp was released in England
On 1 May 1840, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, was officially issued in England, marking the...
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On this day in 1945: Adolf Hitler killed himself
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler died by suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin as Nazi Germany faced total...
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On this day in 1943: Operation Mincemeat reaches Spain
On this day in 1943, one of the most daring deception operations of the Second World War reached a critical...
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On this day in 1969: Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France
France’s Fifth Republic faced a defining political moment in April 1969 when President Charles de Gaulle resigned following a decisive...
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