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 ...

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

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

Under the likes of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Union was well-known for its extensive use of propaganda, including the promotion of elite sportspeople like ice ...

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

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 ...

This provoked KGB chief Yuri Andropov to make more martyrs out of the organization’s members by leading another harsh crackdown on human rights activists—a repression that in turn contributed ...

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 ...