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On January 23, 1973, US President Richard Nixon went on air to announce a peace accord with Vietnam ending about two decades of America’s longest military engagement in the Asian…
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After more than 30 years and 7.4 billion miles traveled, engineers at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California were finally unable to receive a transmission from Pioneer 10…
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January 24 1943 – General Friedrich von Paulus is Denied Permission to Surrender in the Battle of Stalingrad
by Vishul MalikFighting the bitter cold of Russian winter and resolute defenders, not to mention hunger and fatigue, the 6th German Army could make no progress. Five months after entering Soviet territory,…
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On January 24, 1965, Britain’s greatest war-time leader Winston Churchill breathed his last in London. Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on October 26, 1951, into aristocracy. He came from the…
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On January 25, 1924, the First Winter Olympic Games was opened in Chamonix, France. Although not known as an Olympics Games at the time, it became the first in many…
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Ten days after beginning deliberation in the most expensive murder trial in American history up to that point, jurors in the case of The State of California v. Charles Manson…
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On January 26, 1950, India adopted a new constitution, emerging from over a century of British rule, and became the Republic of India – the world’s most populous democratic nation.…
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Following the armed conflict between British soldiers and Egyptian policemen near the Suez Canal — a five-hour shootout which left 50 natives dead and another 80 wounded — citizens of…
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Long a defender of the Southern Song Dynasty, the loyal — and frequently successful — General Yue Fei met an untimely end at the age of 39 when his government…
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On January 27, 2006, Western Union discontinued its 155 year-old telegraph service. Telegrams became a very important mode of communication through the 20th century and became the standard conveyor of…
