History
878 verified facts in this category, showing 601–700.
- In 1975, the number of votes needed for cloture was reduced to three-fifths of the Senate, or 60 votes.
- The 1917 version of Rule 22 required an affirmative vote of two-thirds of senators present and voting to end debate.
- Rule 22, the Senate's cloture rule, was adopted in 1917.
- Jon Henricks set the 100-metre freestyle world competitive record (excluding time trials) of 55.4 seconds at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
- Communist forces during the Tet Offensive attacked dozens of cities, towns, and military bases in South Vietnam, including the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
- On January 30, 1968, during the Tet holiday cease-fire in South Vietnam, an estimated 80,000 troops from the North Vietnamese Army and the National Liberation Front launched attacks throughout South Vietnam.
- On May 22, 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, blockading the southern Israeli port city of Elat.
- During an air battle with Syria in April 1967, the Israeli Air Force shot down six Syrian MiG fighter jets.
- In November 1966, an Israeli strike on Al-Samu' village in the Jordanian-controlled West Bank killed 18 people and wounded 54.
- Archaeological evidence indicates that ritual human sacrifice was practiced in many cultures, including ancient Egypt, ancient China, certain Indian sects, Aztec society, and Mayan communities.
- The Judiciary Act of 1789 divided the United States into 13 judicial districts organized into three circuits: the Eastern, Middle, and Southern.
- INAH archaeologist Alberto Vázquez said there were no records at the time linking the Campo Viejo discoveries to other ancient sites.
- Archaeologists found fragments of burnt maize, buried vessels and a broken greenstone bead at the Coatepec site.
- The Clovis culture was one of the earliest archaeological cultures to extend throughout North America.
- According to the conventional theory, a migration corridor into North America became passable after the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets receded.
- Archaeological studies date human colonization of North America by the Clovis culture to more than 13,000 years ago.
- Salomon Brothers' August 1991 admission of improprieties in government securities trading led shortly afterward to the resignation of the firm's senior management.
- In a BBC interview, ex-general Brar denied that the UK government colluded in the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple.
- In 1999, Paul Allen sent a memo to Interval Research Corporation calling for less pure research (R) and more development (D).
- The Obama administration stated its support for the whistleblower protection bill, removing the traditional objection that the Justice Department opposed whistleblower-protection legislation.
- Senate Republicans restricted the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees in 2017.
- ProPublica published the article 'Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans' on November 9, 2012.
- The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans were first issued jointly by USDA and HHS in 1980.
- The first prominent baseball cards, called Old Judge, were first issued in 1887.
- During a 1906–1908 visit to Asia and North Africa, Charles Lang Freer acquired a biblical text and numerous ancient Egyptian sculptures, amulets, beads, and vessels.
- Charles Lang Freer worked as a railroad clerk before becoming a businessman.
- Codex Washingtonianus is currently held in the Freer Gallery of Art.
- Charles Lang Freer acquired the Codex Washingtonianus manuscript in Egypt in 1906.
- After the Church Committee scandal, the FBI issued explicit guidelines intended to prevent abuses.
- The July 2025 National Archives release included FBI records from the investigation code-named 'MURKIN' into the MLK assassination.
- The United States began deploying Special Forces to the southern Philippines in 2002 to advise and assist against terrorist and insurgent groups.
- The Korean War armistice was negotiated through dozens of meetings over approximately two years.
- U.S. operations supporting the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan against the Soviets were conducted almost entirely from and through Pakistan.
- The 1964 CIA article "'Face' among the Arabs" was once classified and was later released through the CIA's Freedom of Information Act website.
- Peter Naffsinger's 1964 CIA article on Arab honor culture was later released through the CIA's Freedom of Information Act website.
- By 1998–1999, all but four U.S. states required vaccines for students entering kindergarten through 12th grade, while 30 states required vaccines for students entering college for the first time.
- By 1980, every U.S. state had vaccine-related laws concerning children before they entered school, with some states allowing county public health boards to decide which vaccines were required.
- Göbekli Tepe's stone circles range from 30 to 100 feet in diameter and are enclosed by rectangular stone walls about 6 feet high.
- The Chauvet–Pont d'Arc cave in southeastern France is considered one of the greatest Paleolithic sanctuaries.
- Apollo 7's Service Propulsion System engine, rated at 20,500 pounds of thrust, fired eight times as planned during the mission.
- The word 'Pacific' derives from a version of 'pacify' or 'peaceful.'
- NASA launched five nearly identical, van-size Lunar Orbiter satellites in 1966 and 1967 to map the Moon and identify safe Apollo landing sites.
- Apollo astronauts had to perform some return maneuvers while their spacecraft was behind the moon and outside communications range with Earth.
- Eric Jones received a NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2023 for his work documenting Apollo history.
- The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal includes commentary from ten of the twelve astronauts who walked on the Moon.
- Astronomer Eric M. Jones began developing the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal in 1988 after an 'epiphany' while visiting Johnson Space Center.
- By 1945, air reconnaissance was widely recognized as a vital, indispensable component of air power, in contrast to its status before the war.
- Aerial reconnaissance underwent transformational growth between 1939 and 1945, especially in Britain and later the United States.
- The interpreting of aerial photographic images became an important new specialty during World War I, essential for accurate mapping.
- Aerial reconnaissance using heavier-than-air aircraft was an entirely new science during World War I that had to be developed step-by-step.
- The Annals of Thutmose III are inscriptions recording ancient Egyptian military campaigns conducted by Thutmose III's armies in Syro-Palestine during regnal years 22 to 42 of the 18th Dynasty.
- The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level in the Cambridgeshire Fens, UK.
- In the nomenclature used by the Navy of the Second Polish Republic, ORP Czapla was referred to as a mine layer.
- The Chetnik attack on Užice was led by Colonel Draža Mihailović.
- After the K-21 attack, the German ships continued on their original course for approximately five hours before turning back.
- The German squadron including the Tirpitz sailed on 5 July 1942 to intercept Arctic convoy PQ 17.
- The Soviet submarine K-21 was commanded by Captain Second Rank Nikolai Lunin during the attack on the Tirpitz on 5 July 1942.
- The German battleship squadron attacking convoy PQ 17 on 5 July 1942 was commanded by Admiral Otto Schniewind.
- The Dornier Do 24T-3 crashed shortly after takeoff into Resko Przymorskie.
- Nearly all of the world's countries participated in World War II.
- In the syncopated stage of mathematical notation, quantities and common algebraic operations began to be represented by symbolic abbreviations.
- Early mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Ebla was used in astronomy to record time and formulate calendars.
- Ancient Egypt began using arithmetic, algebra, and geometry shortly after Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, around 3000 BC.
- The Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria began using arithmetic, algebra, and geometry starting around 3000 BC.
- Felix Klein's Erlangen program is an example of a historical agenda proposing future directions for mathematics.
- Client kingdoms in ancient Rome functioned as a form of protectorate, controlled or influenced by Rome despite nominal independence.
- The Classis Pontica was later established on a permanent basis by Emperor Nero.
- The Classis Pontica was a Roman provincial fleet.
- France conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1960.
- Tube Alloys was initiated during World War II.
- Light infantry warriors who carried the caetra shield were called caetratus.
- The caetra was a circular shield used by Iberian, Celtiberian, Gallaecian, and Lusitanian warriors.
- The American Committee for East–West Accord is the name of two related organizations that existed during separate periods of American history.
- Roman cohors equitata units could consist of approximately 1,000 soldiers in the milliaria size configuration.
- North European cultures showed astronomical interest in early history.
- Central American cultures showed astronomical interest in early history.
- Early astronomical records from the Babylonians date back to around 1000 BC.
- The Catholic Church's evangelical effort during the Age of Discovery served as both a major part of and a justification for the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and France.
- Ancient Egypt's history included periods called 'Intermediate Periods' of relative instability between stable kingdoms.
- The pharaonic period of Egypt lasted approximately 2,900 years, from the 32nd century BC to 332 BC.
- Japan's Basic Act on Environmental Pollution Control was enacted in 1967.
- Japan's Waste Management and Public Cleansing Act of 1970 legally defined industrial waste and established that the responsibility for treating and disposing of waste is placed on those who discharge it.
- Jonathan Wild was hanged in 1725.
- The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels was founded in Leipzig in 1825.
- American surgeon William Halsted developed the radical mastectomy in the late 19th century.
- The six declassified WWI-era documents are housed at the National Archives.
- The U.S. State Department publicly announced the formation of the Roberts Commission on August 20, 1943.
- The Current Intelligence Bulletin began on 28 February 1951, was retitled the Central Intelligence Bulletin in 1958, and remained a separate publication until 10 January 1974, when it was replaced by the National Intelligence Daily.
- Congress created the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) in 2007 when it amended the Freedom of Information Act.
- The Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection covers dietary guidance and nutrition education from the 19th century to today.
- The outbreak of Minamata disease was a major environmental pollution event in Japan caused by chemical contamination.
- The Victoria Declaration on Heart Health, published in 1992, was the first in a series of international heart health declarations CDC collaborated on.
- The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 established both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- The United States Bureau of Mines was established by the Department of the Interior on July 1, 1910.
- The 'Königlich-Polnische und Kurfürstlich-Sächsische Porzellan-Manufaktur' (Meissen porcelain manufactory) was founded by decree on June 6, 1710.
- In 1994, under rector Juan José Goiriena de Gandarias, the Museum was converted into a Foundation named 'Medikuntza eta Zientzia Historiaren Euskal Museoaren Fundazioa / Fundación Museo Vasco de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia'.
- The 'Seminario de Historia de la Medicina Vasca / Euskal Medikuntzaren Historia Mintegia' was created in 1979 by José Luis Goti, Luis S. Granjel, and Ignacio Mª Barriola, among others.
- The Faculty of Medicine at the University of the Basque Country was founded in 1968.
- The first edition of Gray's Anatomy (originally titled Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical) was published in 1858.
- The Nivellement Général de la France network was established by Paul Adrien Bourdalouë between 1857 and 1864.