Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia. Here’s a four-paragraph piece on Julia Gillard: Julia Gillard is an Australian politician…

A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably…

In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. In Roth v. United States (1957),…

Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country’s third prime minister. The country we now know as Thailand was historically known as Siam until…

The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.

Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.

“The Jakarta Incident”: British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the…

The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on the NBC.

A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army in what was called the Battle of Beaver Dams. The Battle of Beaver Dams…