September

In September 1066, the questionable title of King Harold II of England was under attack from all sides. With Harald Hardrada of Norway arriving in the northern countryside early in…

Attempting to keep from launching Europe into another war, representatives from France, Great Britain and Italy signed an agreement with officials from Nazi Germany on September 29, 1938 that would…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Born to a diamond seller Kent, England, Malcolm Campbell was headed for a life in the family business before fate intervened. While in Germany learning more…

In the wake of World War II, the four Allied powers — France, Great Britain, the United States and Soviet Union — divided the vanquished German state into zones which…

Image Credit: http://web.archive.org Two Stanford University students, working on a research project in order to receive their PhDs, changed the way the world interacted with the information superhighway when they…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia Four months after the world had celebrated the Allied victory in Europe, a wire clerk based at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada decided he could…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia Launched in 1519, the Spanish expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan set out to be the first in history to make it all the way around the world.…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Among the many figures who managed to bring television into homes on a wide scale, none could be placed higher than American inventor Philo Farnsworth. Brilliant…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia Emperor Titus, with four legions surrounding the city of Jerusalem, finally made a breakthrough in his siege on September 8, 70 — and the Holy City would…

Shwe Zedi Kyaung, U Ottama’s monastery in the city of Sittwe, Rakhine State, in Burma/Myanmar. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost a decade before Mohandas Gandhi would become world-recognized as the…