The cost of maintaining horses, riders, and remote relay stations far outstripped revenues from postage fees, while government subsidies dried up after Congress chose to instead begin funding the ...

Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than ...

World-renowned escapologist Harry Houdini performed his final show in Detroit while suffering from ...

On 23 October 1956, thousands of students marched through Budapest calling for political reforms, free elections, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Over the next few weeks the revolution was brutally put ...

Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute ...

The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ...

Construction began in March 1959 but the project, located on Bennelong Point overlooking Sydney Harbour, soon ran into difficulties before finally opening on 20 October ...

When Abyssinia was finally captured on 5 May, all the sanctions were ...

European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda ...

The Japanese used approximately 60,000 POWs, mainly British, Dutch, Australian, and American, to construct the railway alongside an estimated 180,000 to 250,000 Asian civilians. It is estimated that around 12,000 Allied prisoners and up to 90,000 civilians died during ...