History

raqi President Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003, marking the definitive end of one of the...

John le Carré reshaped the modern spy novel by stripping it of glamour and replacing it with moral ambiguity, institutional...

Apollo 17 marked a historic conclusion to the Apollo lunar programme when astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the...

General Augusto Pinochet remains one of the most polarising figures in modern Latin American history, associated both with the overthrow...

Lech Wałęsa’s victory in Poland’s landmark 1990 presidential election marked a historic transition for the country, delivering its first democratically...

John Lennon, former Beatle and global peace advocate, was shot and killed outside his Manhattan home late on Monday evening,...

The attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 marked a decisive turning point in the Second World War, propelling...

The establishment of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922 marked one of the most consequential constitutional shifts in...

Walt Disney’s influence on animation, popular culture, and global entertainment remains unmatched more than half a century after his death....

General Francisco Franco remains one of Europe’s most divisive 20th-century leaders, nearly five decades after his death. His rule, which...