Lazar Kaganovich Dies at Age 97
Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991), a Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, died on July 25, 1991. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich held seve...
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Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991), a Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, died on July 25, 1991. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich held seve...
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, marked a pivotal moment in world history, symbolizing the collapse of the Cold War division between East and West Germ...
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Anfal Genocide On February 23, 1988, the Iraqi government launched the Anfal campaign against Kurdish populations in northern Iraq during the final phase of the Iran–...
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Guatemalan Maya Genocide On March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala through a military coup during the Guatemalan Civil War. His governmen...
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El Mozote massacre On December 11, 1981, Salvadoran Army units carried out a massacre in the village of El Mozote in Morazán Department, El Salvador. Soldiers of the ...
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Harold Wallace Rosenthal, a Senate aide, was killed in a terrorist attack at Istanbul Airport in 1976. Rosenthal had worked for Senator Jacob Javits and was serving in...
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East Timor Genocide On December 7, 1975, Indonesia launched a military invasion of East Timor following its declaration of independence from Portugal. The Indonesian ...
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Bangladesh Genocide On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight in Dhaka and other major cities of East Pakistan, targeting Bengali nationalis...
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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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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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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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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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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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JFK Wrote in 1939 That Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away In July 1939, John F. Kennedy, then a 22-year-old Harvard student, visited Palestine duri...
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Margherita Sarfatti, an Italian Jewish art critic and writer, played a documented role in the early political and cultural development of Benito Mussolini during the r...
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David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote a letter to his son Amos following the Peel Commission’s proposal to parti...
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Simele Massacre On August 7, 1933, units of the Iraqi Army entered the town of Simele in northern Iraq during a military campaign targeting Assyrian communities. Tens...
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In early 20th century Germany, Berlin was a center for sexual reform and research. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), physician and sexologist, a German Jewish doctor,...
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Financial backers of Hitler in 1933 In early 1933, Adolf Hitler received financial support from multiple sources as he rose to power in Germany. Major contributions c...
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Bonus army removed from Washington In the spring and summer of 1932, approximately 17,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans, along with their families and supporters, as...
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Charlie Chaplin married actress Lita Grey on November 25, 1924, in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. Chaplin was 35 years old and Grey was 16. Their marriage followed a relatio...
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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued on November 2 1917 by the British government during World War I expressing support for the establishment of a nat...
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3 July 2013 — Following enormous demonstrations against President Morsi, the Egyptian military removes him from office and suspends the constitution. Supporters descri...
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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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1960–1961 — Hoxha rejects Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and growing Soviet pressure. Relations collapse and Albania turns toward Maoist China for economic and i...
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26 July–7 November 1956 — Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal Company after Western governments withdraw support for the Aswan High Dam. Britain, France and Israel secr...
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August 1916–October 1918 — Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff become the dominant figures in Germany's Supreme Army Command. Their influence extends far beyond b...
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4 June 1916 — Russian General Aleksei Brusilov launches a major offensive against Austria-Hungary. Innovative preparation and attacks across a broad front produce spec...
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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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1894–1914 — France and Russia are formally allied, while Britain develops strategic understandings with France and Russia. Germany remains closely aligned with Austria...
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17 January 1468 — Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg dies at Lezhë after more than two decades as the central figure of Albanian resistance to Ottoman expansion. His leadersh...
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1272 CE — Charles of Anjou establishes the Regnum Albaniae after securing support among local nobles around Durrës. Angevin power proves uneven, but the kingdom demons...
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305–30 BCE — The Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty rules Egypt after the fragmentation of Alexander's empire. Its kings present themselves simultaneously as Hellenistic mon...
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c. 1323 BCE — The young king's mummy has been subjected to extensive medical and genetic analysis. Proposed explanations have included injury, malaria, inherited disor...
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c. 2580–2560 BCE — Khufu's Great Pyramid rises at Giza and becomes the largest pyramid ever constructed in Egypt. Originally about 146.6 meters high, it contains milli...
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c. 3100 BCE–2026 CE — Modern Egyptians live in the same Nile landscape that supported pharaonic civilization, but language, religion, political institutions and popula...
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30 September 1938 — Chamberlain and Daladier accept German acquisition of the Sudetenland in the hope of preserving peace. Their decisions reflect memories of World Wa...
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1939–1945 — Britain's Government Code and Cypher School gathers mathematicians, linguists, engineers, intelligence officers and thousands of support staff at Bletchley...
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1916–1922 as British prime minister — Lloyd George leads Britain during the final two years of the war and the peace conference. His government intensifies national ec...
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29 October 1929 — The Depression massively increases unemployment and political instability while Nazi electoral support grows dramatically. But economic misery does n...
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24 October 1929 — The beginning of the Wall Street panic provides an anchor for the economic collapse that spreads across industrial economies. Unemployment rises dram...
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March–November 1918 as Allied supreme commander — French General Ferdinand Foch receives increasingly broad authority to coordinate Allied armies during Germany's fina...
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1 October 1936 — Franco is proclaimed head of the Nationalist state during the Spanish Civil War. German and Italian military aid becomes important to his coalition, w...
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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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13 August 1923 — Stresemann becomes German chancellor during the Ruhr and inflation crisis and later serves as foreign minister. He ends passive resistance in the Ruhr...
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1940–1944 senior Japanese leadership — General Hideki Tojo becomes Japanese prime minister in October 1941 as negotiations with the United States approach collapse. He...
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