Discovery Of Thousands Of Stored Fetal Remains In Los Angeles
On February 4, 1982, authorities in Los Angeles County discovered thousands of preserved human fetuses inside a repossessed storage container connected to a defunct pa...
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On February 4, 1982, authorities in Los Angeles County discovered thousands of preserved human fetuses inside a repossessed storage container connected to a defunct pa...
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Cambodian Genocide On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized Phnom Penh and established control over Cambodia, initiating a regime of social and political transformat...
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The Watergate Affair: Timeline, Operatives, And Unresolved Questions On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at...
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The Watergate Scandal From Break-In To Presidential Resignation On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquart...
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Attribution History of Golda Meir Quote on Children and Conflict Golda Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. A statement widely attribu...
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On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, carried out a mass killing of Vietn...
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On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, the United States Navy technical research ship USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was attacked in international waters of the eastern Medite...
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Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen became one of the few reporters to directly question Jack Ruby during his 1964 trial for the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. Kilgallen, a we...
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On November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby, a Jewish-American nightclub owner in Dallas, Texas, shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. ...
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding i...
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Marilyn Monroe (6 1 1926 – 8 5 1962) was a major Hollywood actress, signed to 20th Century Fox and MGM, with extensive ties to studio executives, publicists, and indiv...
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What it was The Lavon Affair, also known as Operation Susannah, was a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt in 1954, carried out by Israeli military i...
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Allegations have circulated claiming that King Charles III was circumcised in December 1948 shortly after his birth at Buckingham Palace. The accounts state the proced...
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The Yemenite Children Affair refers to a long-running controversy in Israel between 1948 and 1954, involving the disappearance of mainly Yemenite Jewish infants and to...
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On July 22, 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the administrative headquarters of the British Mandate authorities in Palestine, was bombed. The a...
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General George S. Patton, a senior U.S. Army officer in World War II, died on December 21, 1945, in Heidelberg, Germany, following injuries sustained in a car accident...
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the official surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, ending the war in Europe. Celebrations erupted across Europe and the United Sta...
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The German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact And Its Secret Protocols On August 23, 1939, the governments of Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression t...
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Soviet-Era Famines Under Bolshevik Rule Between 1930 and 1933, a series of mass famines occurred across the Soviet Union following Bolshevik policies of for...
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In the 1920s, businessman Julius Barmat, who was Jewish, became involved in a political corruption scandal in the Weimar Republic. The affair implicated government off...
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Charlie Chaplin married actress Mildred Harris on October 23, 1918, in Los Angeles. Chaplin was 29 years old and Harris was 16. Harris was already working as a film ac...
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The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Among the planned passengers was financier J.P. Morgan, head of the Internat...
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Theodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) was an Austro‑Hungarian journalist, playwright, and writer who is considered a founder of modern political Zionism. Herzl pr...
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Expulsion of Jews from the Kingdom of Naples In 1540, Jewish communities in the Kingdom of Naples were expelled as the region came under the control of the Spanish cr...
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1967 — The communist government launches an aggressive campaign against organized religion. Mosques, churches and monasteries are closed or converted to other uses, an...
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1958–1961 — Egypt and Syria unite as the United Arab Republic under Nasser. The union represents the high point of pan-Arab political enthusiasm. Syrian dissatisfactio...
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7–23 July 1914 — Austro-Hungarian leaders debate how to transform the Sarajevo assassination into a confrontation with Serbia. Officials increasingly favor demands sev...
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May–June 1914 — Members of the assassination conspiracy obtain pistols, bombs and assistance through contacts associated with Serbian nationalist and military-intellig...
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1914–1919 — Room 40 is the British Admiralty's cryptanalytic organization responsible for intercepting and decoding important German communications. Its intelligence c...
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1912–1914 — Officials in Germany and Austria-Hungary increasingly fear that Russia and Serbia will become stronger with time. Railway construction, military reforms, p...
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1882 — British forces intervene during the Urabi Revolt and occupy Egypt. The country formally remains connected to the Ottoman Empire for decades, but British officia...
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17 November 1869 — The Suez Canal officially opens, connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas without requiring ships to sail around Africa. The canal transforms globa...
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c. 1353–1336 BCE — Amenhotep IV changes his name to Akhenaten and promotes extraordinary devotion to the solar deity Aten. He establishes a new royal capital at Akheta...
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c. 2650 BCE — Djoser's Step Pyramid complex represents a revolutionary leap in monumental stone architecture. Traditionally associated with the official Imhotep, the p...
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c. 2686–2181 BCE — The Old Kingdom becomes the classic age of pyramid construction and highly centralized kingship. The royal court controls extensive agricultural res...
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28 June 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie are assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princi...
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The Council on Foreign Relations provided a continuing institutional forum where scholars, government officials, business leaders and other participants discussed inte...
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22 June 1941 — SS and police killing units move behind German armies. Their operations rapidly expand from targeting Soviet officials toward systematic mass murder of ...
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23 May 1941 — German economic planners develop guidelines that assume food from occupied Soviet territories will be redirected toward Germany and the Wehrmacht. Offici...
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5 July 1914 — Austro-Hungarian envoy Alexander Hoyos receives powerful assurances in Berlin that Germany will support Vienna if it acts against Serbia, even if Russian...
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31 May 1945 — Secretary of War Henry Stimson chairs the first major meeting of the Interim Committee considering policy surrounding the atomic bomb. Stimson becomes on...
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22 June 1941 — Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union along an enormous front. Hitler seeks not only military victory but ideological destruction of Soviet com...
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25 July 1914 — Serbia submits a conciliatory reply accepting most Austro-Hungarian demands while rejecting or qualifying provisions that would allow foreign officials ...
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17 September 1939 — Soviet forces cross Poland's eastern frontier while the Polish state is already collapsing under German attack. The invasion follows the secret ter...
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Untitled22 June 1941 — Special SS and police formations move behind German armies entering the Soviet Union. Their mission quickly expands into mass shootings of Jewis...
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20 January 1942 — Senior Nazi officials meet near Berlin to coordinate bureaucratic implementation of the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question. Mass killing...
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Map the officials, agencies, advisers and outside institutions documented in the preparation, review and implementation of NSSM 200. Distinguish formal participants fr...
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