With Parliamentary troops searching the surrounding woodland, Royalist soldier William Careless suggested the king should hide in an oak tree, later known as the Royal ...

The Reign of Terror began in France when Bertrand Barre, a member of the Committee of Public Safety, made a speech in favour of it that ended with the exclamation, Let's make terror the order of the ...

The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President ...

The Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of ...

With the prisons full of suspected counter-revolutionaries, the radical journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat urged the citizens of Paris to take up arms and eliminate these enemies of the ...

In the early hours of September 1, while King Idris I was in Turkey receiving medical treatment, Gaddafi and the Free Officers Movement launched their coup that took control of key institutions in Tripoli and Benghazi, including military bases, government

On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols commonly known as Polly became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of ...

President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court on June 13, 1967, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 69 to 11 on August ...

Ishi, believed to be the last surviving member of the indigenous Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in ...

During a bank robbery in Stockholm, Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank workers hostage. They later began to exhibit sympathy towards their captors while becoming fearful of the polices ...