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There are many myths about the battle for Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. Historians of the battle have often been tempted into the... Read More

Men of the Durham Light Infantry move forward during the breakout from Normandy, 9 August 1944. The collapse and mass retreat of German... Read More

As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago,... Read More

Daniel boone spent his life traversing yet another mountain and crossing yet another river into the unknown wilderness. Through the... Read More

MARGARET THATCHER'S plane landed in Peking at half-past one on the afternoon of 22 September, 1982. It was her second visit to China, the... Read More

The English mariner, privateer, and explorer Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596 CE) made his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 CE.... Read More

On the 20th of Sept. 1854 the Collins Line sidewheel steamer Arctic left Liverpool bound for New York, Arctic was one of the fastest... Read More

eptember 28, 1941: On the final day of the season in Philadelphia, Ted Williams goes six for eight in a doubleheader against Connie... Read More

More than 2,000 police officers were assaulted or injured—and at least one was killed—during the riots that followed the death of... Read More

It’s a curious thing. As decades and centuries pass by, what was once considered grand, wonderful, stupendous, or any other superlative... Read More

For all the advances made against the Germans in the west between D-Day on 6 June 1944 and the crossing of the Rhine in March 1945, postponed... Read More

Pearl Harbor. Of all the aspects of the attack on that 7 December 1941 Sunday morning-including its treachery, swiftness, daring, and... Read More

The reputation of airpower pioneer Billy Mitchell will be forever tied to the World War I Battle of St. Mihiel, and that is as it should be.... Read More

Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was born in Mecca around the year 570. Orphaned before he had reached the age of six, he was raised under the... Read More

On Sept. 25, 1978, a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner and a small plane collided in the air over North Park. The crash killed 144 people... Read More

There were more spectators than usual on the terraces at Orly airport, south of Paris, on that September afternoon in 1973. They had come to... Read More

Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 revisits one of the most notorious American trials of the 20th Century, as retold by The Social... Read More

The strike to end all strikes, it wasn’t. No picketing. No violence. Not one raw chicken leg flung. But what the National Football... Read More

Bernard Law Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, England, United Kingdom to Anglo-Irish Anglican priest Reverend Henry Montgomery and... Read More

Twenty-five years after the slaughter at Chernomen in 1371, an epic battle took place. The army of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid the Thunderbolt... Read More