My Lai Massacre
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 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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Event Overview On June 5, 1967, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched coordinated air strikes against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, marking the beginning of the Six-Da...
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The Biafran mass killings occurred during the Nigerian Civil War, which lasted from 1967 to 1970. Following the secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria and ...
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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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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington, advocating for racial equality, civil rights, and nonviolent protest in th...
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The birth control pill was developed in the mid-20th century as a result of combined efforts by scientists, doctors, activists, and funders. The idea of an oral contra...
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The Vietnam War was a prolonged armed conflict fought primarily between North Vietnam, led by the Communist Party under Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam, supported by th...
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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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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage On June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, afte...
Explore event →Mexican actress Maria Félix said she ate human meat during a 1951 Morocco banquet During the filming of the movie *La Corona Negra* in Morocco in 1951, Mexican film a...
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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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1948 Tantura Killings The events at the Palestinian village of Tantura occurred during the **1948 Palestine war**, when forces of the Haganah, specifically ...
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Operation Cast Thy Bread: Poisoning of Palestinian Wells In April 1948, during the Arab–Israeli War following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, personnel ...
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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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The Nakba refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians that occurred between 1947 and 1949 during the collapse of the British Mandate for Palestin...
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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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During World War II (1939–1945), the Allied forces of the United States and the United Kingdom carried out a widespread strategic bombing campaign against German citie...
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Typhus and Mortality in Nazi Concentration Camps Historical records from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Nazi documentation, and post-w...
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Joan Barry was an American actress who became involved with Charlie Chaplin during the early 1940s. Their relationship later resulted in a highly publicized paternity ...
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Publication of *Germany Must Perish!* by Theodore Kaufman On February 28, 1941, American author Theodore N. Kaufman self‑published a book titled *Germany Mu...
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11 February 2011 — Vice President Omar Suleiman announces that Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and transferred authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Cel...
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25 January–11 February 2011 — Mass demonstrations erupt against police brutality, corruption, economic frustration and authoritarian government. Cairo's Tahrir Square ...
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1998–1999 — War in neighboring Kosovo becomes a major national and humanitarian issue for Albania. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees cross into Albania...
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January–August 1997 — The collapse of enormous fraudulent investment schemes wipes out the savings of hundreds of thousands of Albanians. Armed rebellion spreads, mili...
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1990–1998 — Investigate economic collapse, weak institutions, mass migration, political confrontation, pyramid schemes and the rebuilding of Albanian state authority.
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23 July 1952 — Egyptian military officers overthrow King Farouk's government. The movement is driven by dissatisfaction with corruption, political inequality, British ...
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31 January 1925 — Albania formally becomes a republic with Ahmet Zogu as president. Zogu uses the presidency to consolidate central authority after years of political ...
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March–April 1919 — Mass demonstrations, strikes and civil unrest erupt after British authorities exile nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul and other members of the Wafd m...
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January–June 1919 — France prioritizes security and compensation for destruction. Britain wants Germany constrained without permanently destroying European economic st...
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3 November 1918 — Sailors at Kiel revolt after naval leaders attempt to send the fleet into a final battle. The mutiny spreads into a wider revolutionary movement as w...
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8 March 1917 — Demonstrations, strikes and bread shortages in Petrograd begin the revolutionary crisis that destroys the imperial government. Soldiers increasingly ref...
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1917–1918 — Woodrow Wilson increasingly presents American participation as part of a larger project to restructure international relations. His Fourteen Points call fo...
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21 February 1916 — Germany launches a major offensive against the fortified Verdun region. French forces commit enormous manpower and artillery to prevent the fortress...
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1915–1918 — Consumption of artillery shells and other matériel massively exceeds prewar assumptions. Governments intervene increasingly in factories, labor, transport ...
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1914–1918 wartime production — Schneider is a major French heavy-industrial and armaments producer whose factories supply artillery and military material to the French...
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29 July 1913 — The Great Powers recognize an independent Albanian principality. The borders they establish leave substantial Albanian-speaking populations outside the ...
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January–August 1912 — Albanian insurgents launch a major revolt against Ottoman authority. Rebel forces eventually enter Skopje and force the Ottoman government to acc...
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1912–1913 — Trace the Balkan Wars, competing territorial claims and Great Power diplomacy that created modern Albania while leaving many Albanian-speaking populations ...
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1908–1914 — Austria-Hungary faces growing nationalist pressures in the Balkans following the Bosnian annexation crisis and Serbia's expansion during the Balkan Wars. S...
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10 June 1878 — Albanian political and religious leaders gather in Prizren as the Ottoman Empire faces defeat and territorial losses following the Russo-Turkish War. Th...
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c. 1830–1912 — The Rilindja Kombëtare develops through writers, educators, political activists and diaspora networks. Albanian-language education and publishing become...
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1788–1822 — Ali Pasha controls Ioannina and expands his authority across Epirus, southern Albania and surrounding regions. His court becomes a major political center w...
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1757–1831 — The Bushati family builds a powerful semi-autonomous political center around Shkodër while formally remaining within the Ottoman Empire. At its height, Bus...
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1517–1798 CE — Egypt remains formally part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries while powerful local military households gain substantial autonomy. Agricultural taxes a...
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