Explore the story of the SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc, a French four-engine airliner whose first flight on December 15, 1939, ...

Patton was not an ideal commander. But his fighting spirit was second to none—and continues to inspire military leaders in the United States today.

What is a National Monument? Who gazettes them? How many national monuments are there in Singapore? To date, the Preservation ...

On Dec. 17, 1975, a federal jury in Sacramento sentenced Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme to life in prison for her attempted ...

Delivery of Jerusalem's Arrow 3 missile defense system to Berlin marks historic reversal, reflecting growing relationship ...

The United States and Japan’s vague, ahistorical version of the “one China” policy is inflaming tensions with Beijing.

The Dayton Accords were not perfect. But they stopped the Bosnian war, enabled accountability for atrocities, and offered ...

The Holocaust did not begin with murder. It began with accountants. Jews were first destroyed economically, banks cooperated, ...

It was Dec. 17, 1944, and the Battle of the Bulge – one of the bloodiest, coldest battles of World War II – raged on for the ...

1976: Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley — who held the office for 21 years — died of a heart attack. On that frigid Monday, ...

1971: The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced the formation of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity, later changed to ...

The war that had dominated their youth was drawing to a close. The Amsterdam High School class of 1945 yearbook reported that ...