Category: This Day In History

Thousands of people have taken part in festivities to mark the historic final hours of 97 years of...

President Ronald Reagan has been shot and wounded after a lone gunman opened fire in Washington....

Millions of Russian voters have gone to the polls, with early results suggesting that a number of...

Pope John Paul II has prayed for forgiveness of the sins of those involved in the Holocaust....

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia has died after a gun attack in Riyadh despite the efforts of doctors...

Punch, Britain’s oldest satirical magazine, is to close after suffering crippling losses of £1.5m...

President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space. The Strategic Defense...

American missiles have hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign...

A group of Argentines have landed at the British colony of the Falkland Islands in the south...

More than 200 people have been arrested after thousands of demonstrators clashed in an...