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...
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...
On 5 December 2013 the world lost Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. The anti-apartheid leader died peacefully at his Johannesburg home, aged 95, after months of...
Aboard the storm-battered Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, two men changed history.
After two days of talks rocked by Force 10 gales in Marsaxlokk Bay,...
