History
878 verified facts in this category, showing 701–800.
- The Cosmonaut Training Centre was established on January 11, 1960, by order of Soviet Air Force commander Chief Marshal Konstantin Vershinin.
- On September 7, 1909, the New York Times ran a front-page headline stating 'Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years.'
- Samuel Clemens first adopted the pen name 'Mark Twain' in 1863.
- Nebuchadnezzar II conquered Jerusalem in 597 B.C.
- Thomas and Tinie Causby bought 2.8 acres of land next to a small airfield near Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1934.
- Yee Shun was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- On the evening of February 24, 1882, Yee Shun got off a train in East Las Vegas, New Mexico.
- The Maya civilization began building its society around A.D. 250.
- China conducted its first atomic test in October 1964.
- This U-2 discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis that took place October 15-28, 1962.
- A new Italian helmet law (Law 07.12.1999, n°472) took effect on March 30, 2000, extending the mandatory helmet requirement to adult moped riders.
- Jon Henricks set the 100-metre freestyle Olympic record of 55.4 seconds at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
- The Tet Offensive was the largest offensive of the Vietnam War up to that point, targeting South Vietnamese and U.S. troops.
- Galileo Galilei was found guilty of heresy by the Holy Office of the Inquisition for supporting the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
- The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 by soldiers led by Pierre-François Bouchard while they were demolishing ancient walls near Rosetta to improve a French fort.
- The British Guiana One-Cent Magenta was displayed in a glass case at Sotheby's in New York on June 17, 2014.
- The BBC article on Brar's denial of a UK 'link' to the Golden Temple attack was published on 14 January 2014.
- General Kuldip Singh Brar was the Indian general in charge of the 1984 storming of the Golden Temple.
- In 2016, Mitch McConnell refused to act on Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination and held it for a year.
- The St. Francis Dam failure occurred in 1928.
- Under 50 USC 435, the President was required to establish procedures governing access to classified information within 180 days after October 14, 1994.
- Douglas Scott co-authored the book 'They Died With Custer: Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn', published in 1998.
- Douglas Scott is known for archaeological investigations of Pea Ridge National Military Park (site of an 1862 battle), Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (site of an 1861 battle), and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (site of an 1876 battle).
- The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.
- During the 1940s, the U.S. federal government promoted home canning as a way for families to supplement food resources during World War II rationing.
- USDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the first edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 1980.
- The Library of Congress launched the American Memory project in 1994 to make digitized historical materials from its special collections freely available online.
- Under 49 U.S.C. § 114, the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security was appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, with a term of office of 5 years.
- Executive Order 14176, signed by President Donald Trump on January 23, 2025, covers records concerning the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
- The July 2025 National Archives release included State Department records concerning James Earl Ray's extradition from the United Kingdom.
- A monograph analyzing CIA support to policymakers regarding the 2007 NIE on Iran's nuclear intentions was published in May 2013 and authored by Gregory F. Treverton of the RAND Corporation.
- RAND became an independent nonprofit organization in 1948.
- Michael Marcus received a 1997 Mansfield Fellowship, allowing him and Gail Marcus to spend a year in Japan.
- Gail Marcus's book 'Nuclear Firsts: Milestones on the Road to Nuclear Power Development' won the 2013 ASME Engineer-Historian Award.
- A U.S. childhood vaccination initiative launched in 1977 aimed to raise the national vaccination rate to 90% within two years.
- The Jebel Sahaba skeletons were excavated in the 1960s by American archaeologist Fred Wendorf.
- Historian Tessa Dunlop described Ruth Bourne as an 'unsung hero' of Bletchley Park.
- Ruth Bourne was a veteran of Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking center during World War II.
- The Beaker folk lived approximately 4,500 years ago across the temperate zones of Europe, during the Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age.
- Lunar Orbiter 3 photographed the Moon from February 15 to 23, 1967, and confirmed safe landing sites for the Apollo program.
- Apollo 8 was the first successful crewed mission to orbit the moon and return to Earth.
- Eric Jones received the American Astronautical Society's Ordway Award in 2024 for his work documenting Apollo history.
- The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal contains corrected, annotated transcripts of all recorded conversations between astronauts on the lunar surface and mission control in Houston.
- The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal was first published online by Eric M. Jones in mid-1995.
- In April 1989, Eric M. Jones and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt spent three days thoroughly reviewing part of Apollo 17's lunar activities.
- Ancient Egypt's documented history spans approximately three millennia.
- The Arabia Nome was located in northern Egypt, roughly stretching from the eastern bank of the Nile Delta to the Suez Canal region.
- The Bedford Level experiment observations were performed during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Draža Mihailović held the rank of Colonel during the 1941 Chetnik attack on Užice.
- The Battle of Jaktorów ended with the defeat of the main forces of the Kampinos Group by the Germans.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was a partisan battle.
- The aeolipile is also known as Hero's engine.
- The Axis powers were later called the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis.
- The German battleship Tirpitz was sailing as part of a squadron under the command of Admiral Otto Schniewind to intercept convoy PQ 17 on 5 July 1942.
- The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash occurred shortly after takeoff.
- The Dornier Do 24T-3 that crashed in Resko Przymorskie took off from a German Air Force base in Kępa.
- The aircraft involved in the 1945 Resko Przymorskie crash was a Dornier Do 24T-3.
- Millions of people died during World War II as a result of massacres, starvation, and disease.
- In the symbolic stage of mathematical notation, comprehensive notational systems for formulas became the norm.
- The Lwów School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians who worked in the city of Lwów (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) during the interwar period.
- Early mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Ebla was used for taxation, commerce, and trade.
- Ancient Egypt began using arithmetic, algebra, and geometry for taxation, commerce, trade, and astronomy shortly after Mesopotamia did, around 3000 BC.
- Hilbert's problems is an example of an agenda proposing future directions for mathematics.
- In ancient Rome, a 'client kingdom' referred to a kingdom or people that appeared independent but was actually within the Roman Empire's sphere of influence and dependence.
- India conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1974.
- China conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1964.
- The United Kingdom conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1952.
- Russia (or its predecessor, the Soviet Union) conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1949.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain, to date, the only use of nuclear weapons in hostilities.
- The United States initiated the Manhattan Project in 1942 in collaboration with the United Kingdom.
- A cohors peditata quingenaria consisted of about 500 soldiers.
- Unlike the cohors equitata, the cohors peditata contained no cavalry, only infantry.
- A cohors peditata was a body of auxiliary units of the Roman army composed solely of infantrymen.
- The caetra shield had a diameter ranging from 30 cm to 90 cm.
- The American Committee for East–West Accord's stated goals included promoting conciliation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Abo Elementary School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
- Sports diplomacy was used as a form of Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union.
- The Cold War involved no direct military fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Early Chinese cultures showed astronomical interest, as evidenced by historical records.
- In the Americas, Asia, and Africa during the Age of Discovery, most Catholic missions were run by religious orders including the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and Jesuits.
- During the Age of Discovery, Christian missions to indigenous peoples were run hand-in-hand with the colonial efforts of Catholic nations such as Portugal, Spain, and France.
- Juan Cabrero fought as a professional combatant during the Granada War in Spain.
- The interconnected global economy of the 21st century has its origins in the expansion of trade networks during the Age of Discovery.
- The Age of Discovery is sometimes synonymous with the first wave of European colonization.
- The Age of Discovery overlapped with the Age of Sail during the early modern period.
- Ancient Egyptians cultivated papyrus as an industrial crop.
- Ancient Egyptians grew flax as an industrial crop.
- Ancient Egyptians developed basin irrigation as an agricultural technique.
- Ancient Egyptians are credited as being one of the first groups of people to practice agriculture on a large scale.
- The New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt occurred during the Late Bronze Age.
- The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt occurred during the Middle Bronze Age.
- The Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt occurred during the Early Bronze Age.
- Ancient Egypt emerged as a unified civilization around 3150 BC when Upper and Lower Egypt were united.
- The Roman conquest of Egypt occurred in 30 BC, marking the end of the ancient Egyptian period.
- Japan entered a new imperial era called 'Reiwa' on May 1, 2019.
- The Showa era in Japan spanned from 1926 to 1989.
- Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
- Rémi Hadad authored a chapter titled 'In the shadow of monoliths.: Göbekli Tepe and the monumental tradition of the Pre-Pottery Levant.'
- Editor Kevin C. Ruffner joined the CIA History Staff in 1991 after receiving a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University.
- The world exposition "Internationale Ausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik" (Bugra) opened on 6 May 1914.