Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. Enos was a chimpanzee trained by NASA in the early 1960s as part of the Mercury program, which…

Women’s suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election. Women’s suffrage in New Zealand took shape through decades of persistent activism,…

The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid. The Jerusalem Church in Berlin has one of those long, quietly dramatic histories that…

World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. The German V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp in late 1944 and early…

The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873 The Greenback Party was…

Hundred Years’ War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. The Hundred Years’ War was a long, tangled conflict between England and France that stretched…

French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela. The Battle of Tudela unfolded as one of the more decisive early clashes in Napoleon’s…

Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco two days earlier. Juan Carlos I, born in 1938 in Rome, became…

Albert Einstein’s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. Albert Einstein’s famous relation…

In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire The destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire in 1936 marked a dramatic end to one…