On 15 December 1955, the armed anti-colonial campaign of EOKA (1955–59) recorded its first guerrilla death in combat: Charalambos (Haralambos) G. Mouskos, a member...
Born from the ashes of World War II
On 11 December 1946, UNICEF was founded as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, created to...
Western Australia, November–December 1932.
The enemy: thousands of emus.
The weapon: two Lewis machine guns.
The result: one of the most bizarre military defeats...
On 9 December 1868, London unveiled the world’s first traffic lights at the busy intersection of Great George Street and Bridge Street, right outside...
