Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine, which declared that the U.S. would not interfere in…
Rosa Parks's refusal to relinquish her bus seat This day in 1955, in violation…
Independence of Barbados Barbados, an island nation in the Caribbean situated about 100 miles…
United Nations approves resolution for the partition of Palestine On this day in 1947,…
Opening of Tehrān Conference The Tehrān Conference, attended by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt,…
Nobel Prizes established Through the will drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobel—the Swedish chemist,…
Following a mass trial, hundreds of people were sentenced to prison for life by…
Japanese military base seized by Mishima Yukio On this day in 1970, Japanese novelist…
Dutch discovery of Tasmania Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman, who sailed from Batavia (Jakarta)…
Ley Juárez passed Passed this day in 1855 in Mexico, the Ley Juárez abolished…
U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the…
After some 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe—first as prime minister and later as…

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