The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. Betty…

World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. The White Rose movement was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group active in…

Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus. The Weenen massacre was a violent incident that took place on…

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

During the Anglo-French War (1213–1214), an English invasion force led by John, King of England, lands at La Rochelle in France.

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London

Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial…

Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to…

Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.