Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. Samuel Johnson’s *A Dictionary of the English Language*, first published in 1755, stands…

Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica. The Kingdom of Corsica was a short-lived and rather quirky experiment in monarchy that existed briefly in 1736….

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp located in Lower Saxony, Germany, near the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established…

Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece The 1896 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the I Olympiad,…

McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.

First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress’]

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. Before there were smart phones and Google Maps, people relied on road atlases and paper maps stored in…

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. ergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of…