For half a century, Lebanon lived under the long rule of the two Assads in Syria. Damascus held Lebanon’s fate in its hands, ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...

On Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

In 249, legends say the woman who later became St. Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry, was tortured and killed for being a Christian. Her tormentors broke her teeth with iron points and ...

1966: The Government announces that a Fast Reactor will be built at Dounreay power station in Scotland. On the same day, singer/actress Sophie Tucker dies aged 79. 1967: Canadian conductor Percy Faith ...

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, Aleksandra Kosygina was initially working with KGB Agent Yuri Andropov to help Tarasenko pose as the captain of the stranded submarine as a cover to prevent the Swede ...

Whiskey on the Rocks is a Swedish satirical miniseries that premiered on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ in select countries on January 22, 2025. The series is based on a story by Jonas ...