In Pakistan citizens vote in their first open election in more than a decade choosing as prime minister the populist candidate Benazir Bhutto daughter of for...
Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops
UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
US President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory collectively enter the United States as Oklahoma the 46th state.Oklahoma with a name derived from the Choctaw Indian w...
During the Revolutionary War Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen and a force of 3000 Hessian mercenaries lay siege to Fort Washington on Long Island. Th...
On November 16 1901 a spare low-slung car called the Torpedo Racerbasically a square platform on bicycle wheelsbreaks the world...
On this day in 1941 Joseph Goebbels publishes in the German magazine Das Reich that The Jews wanted the war and now they have itreferri...
On this day in 1914 in Germany a small group of intellectuals led by the physician Georg Nicolai launch Bund Neues Vaterland the New Fatherland League.One of ...
As the fighting gets closer to Phnom Penh the United States steps up its air activities in support of the Cambodian government. U.S. helicopter gunships struc...
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky speaking at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point says Cambodia would be overrun by communist forces wi...
President John F. Kennedy decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing U.S. combat troops.Kennedy was concerned at the advances being ma...
On November 16 1957 Notre Dame beats Oklahoma 7-0 ending the Sooners 47-game 1512-day college football winning streak. The game also marked the fir...
On this day in 1973 President Richard Nixon declares that Americas energy requirements have outpaced its production capacity and urges Congress to pass...
On this day Missouri Indian trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe New Mexico sells his goods at an enormous profit and makes plans to return the next ...
On November 16 1532 Francisco Pizarro the Spanish explorer and conquistador springs a trap on the Incan emperor Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against ...
Did the young Austrian nun named Maria really take to the hills surrounding Salzburg to sing spontaneously of her love of music Did she comfort herself with th...
On this day in 1849 a Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for his allegedly antigovernment activities linked to a radical intellectual group. Hi...
On this day in 2001 the British author J.K. Rowlings star creationbespectacled boy wizard Harry Pottermakes his big-screen debut in Har...