Category: History Knowledge

The “Spanish flu” was used to describe the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 and its name suggests that the epidemic began in Spain. But

On the morning of May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz walked the two streets of his house to his bus stop in Manhattan. It was

After 14 years, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River opens, connecting the major cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time in

“MIA” means ineffective, a term used to refer to members of the armed forces who have not returned from military service and whose whereabouts are

On May 20, 1506, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings

In December 1940, three months after Japan, Germany and Italy signed their Second World War “Tripartite Pact” alliance, a convoy of Japanese military leaders traveled

Four centuries ago, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei put his freedom and his life at stake to convince the religious establishment that the Copernican model

People have been eating outside the home for millennia, buying a quick snack from a street vendor, or taking a break from a roadside inn

On May 18, 1920, Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born in the Polish city of Wadowice, 56 kilometers south-west of Krakow. Wojtyla became Pope John Paul