History
878 verified facts in this category, showing 801–878.
- In 1998, six states received CDC funding for core capacity building and two states received funding for more comprehensive programs.
- Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm on 10 December 1929.
- The German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) was solemnly proclaimed on 23 May 1949.
- The new building of the German National Library in Frankfurt opened in 1997.
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was born in the year 980 CE in the town of Afshana in Central Asia.
- The discovery occurred during an archaeological excavation campaign southeast of Lake Colhué Huapi, near the town of Sarmiento, Chubut Province.
- Yuri Gagarin launched into space aboard Vostok-1 on April 12, 1961.
- Samuel Clemens married Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York, in 1870.
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri.
- Marriage between people of the same sex or gender was legislated in Australia from December 2017.
- On May 1, 2011, a U.S. military raid on an al-Qa'ida compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killed Usama Bin Ladin.
- Cory Booker was previously the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
- Cory Booker unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020.
- The conventional theory of North American population holds that the first migrants arrived from Asia across an ancient land bridge.
- Peter Cooper opened Cooper Union in 1859.
- The UK's Freedom of Information Act came into force in 2005, ten years before the BBC published an article about it in January 2015.
- The BBC News article about the Ness of Brodgar arm bone discovery was published on 21 August 2019.
- The Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 was enacted as part of Pub. L. 106-567 on December 27, 2000.
- A 2002 amendment (Pub. L. 107-306) to 50 USC 435(b)(2) replaced the requirement to report to the 'Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate' with a requirement to report to the 'congressional intelligence committees.'
- The War on the Rocks article reviewing Scott Decker's book on the Amerithrax investigation was published on January 16, 2019.
- Luis Jaime Castillo Butters is affiliated with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and involved in excavations at San José de Moro.
- Gary Urton is associated with a Harvard Summer School archaeological program at San José de Moro, Peru.
- Douglas Scott co-authored the book 'Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn', published in 2000.
- The Yom Kippur War of October 1973 was fought between Egypt and Syria against Israel.
- The International Philatelic Federation was formed in 1926.
- The Library of Congress was founded in 1800.
- Eric M. Jones died in July 2025 at age 81.
- David Woods created the companion Apollo Flight Journal in 1998 to document crewed Apollo flight activities that did not take place on the Moon.
- Aerial reconnaissance can be used for artillery spotting.
- Edwin Henry Barton was a Professor of Physics at University College, Nottingham.
- ORP Czapla was part of the second series of Jaskółka-class minesweepers.
- ORP Czapla was built at the Polish Navy Shipyard in Gdynia.
- ORP Czapla was a Polish coastal minesweeper of the Jaskółka class.
- The Boise Valley Herald ran from June 14, 1928 to September 26, 1968.
- The Boise Valley Herald was a small weekly newspaper based in Middleton, Idaho.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was fought near the village of Budy Zosine, close to Jaktorów.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was fought on 29 September 1944.
- Many countries engaged in total war during World War II on an unprecedented scale.
- The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash occurred on March 5, 1945.
- After the Allied victory in World War II, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied.
- Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes after World War II.
- World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the deaths of 60 to 75 million people.
- Pakistan conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1998.
- The Roman Republic existed from 509 BC to 27 BC.
- The Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century AD.
- The city of Rome was founded in the 8th century BC.
- Espionage and propaganda were major methods of competition between Western and Eastern Bloc powers during the Cold War.
- The Cold War superpowers competed through proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan rather than direct military confrontation.
- Both the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc developed nuclear weapons based on the principle of mutually assured destruction to deter the other side from attacking.
- The Cold War was termed 'cold' because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc powers.
- The Cold War is commonly dated as occurring between 1947 and 1991, though historians have not fully agreed on the exact dates.
- The Cold War began in the aftermath of the Second World War.
- The Space Race was part of the technological rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- The United States and Soviet Union supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars during the Cold War.
- The Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church spread Christianity to the New World, Asia, and Africa through missions to convert indigenous peoples.
- The Spaniards and Portuguese opened maritime routes to the East Indies and colonized the Americas, later joined by the English, French, and Dutch.
- The Age of Discovery lasted from approximately the 15th to the 17th century.
- Ancient Egyptians grew wheat and barley as staple food crops.
- Ancient Egyptian civilization relied on the Nile River's dependable seasonal flooding for agriculture.
- The French Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted in 1789.
- The United States Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
- The book 'Plant Food Processing Tools at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe' was published by Archaeopress in 2021.
- The chapter 'In the shadow of monoliths.: Göbekli Tepe and the monumental tradition of the Pre-Pottery Levant' appears in the book 'Megaliths of the World,' spanning pages 823-836.
- Frederick Cook was born in 1865.
- Robert E. Peary was born in 1856.
- The Pearl Harbor attack took place on December 7, 1941.
- Aerial reconnaissance can be used for the observation of enemy maneuvers.
- Egyptian archaeology is considered one of the branches of Egyptology.
- Edwin Henry Barton lived from 1858 to 1925.
- The Axis powers were a military coalition that initiated World War II.
- The Holocaust was one of the genocides that occurred during World War II.
- German leaders were tried for war crimes after World War II.
- World War II was fought between two coalitions known as the Allies and the Axis powers.
- The United States conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1945.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred at the close of World War II.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were conducted by the United States in August 1945.
- The Manhattan Project aimed to build a weapon using nuclear fission.