At 8am on the 3rd August 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera on the voyage that would take him to the ...

French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air ...

On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of ...

On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the ...

The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ...

The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the ...

The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte ...

On the 8th July 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average – a key indicator of the value of America’s biggest companies – fell to its lowest point during the Great Depression that began with the Wall Street ...

The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, the first international treaty that dealt with wildlife conservation issues, was ...

The bikini swimsuit was introduced for the first time, four days after an atomic test at the Bikini ...