History
838 verified facts in this category, showing 701–800.
- The Jebel Sahaba skeletons were excavated in the 1960s by American archaeologist Fred Wendorf.
- Historian Tessa Dunlop described Ruth Bourne as an 'unsung hero' of Bletchley Park.
- Ruth Bourne was a veteran of Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking center during World War II.
- The Beaker folk lived approximately 4,500 years ago across the temperate zones of Europe, during the Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age.
- Lunar Orbiter 3 photographed the Moon from February 15 to 23, 1967, and confirmed safe landing sites for the Apollo program.
- Apollo 8 was the first successful crewed mission to orbit the moon and return to Earth.
- Eric Jones received the American Astronautical Society's Ordway Award in 2024 for his work documenting Apollo history.
- The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal contains corrected, annotated transcripts of all recorded conversations between astronauts on the lunar surface and mission control in Houston.
- The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal was first published online by Eric M. Jones in mid-1995.
- In April 1989, Eric M. Jones and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt spent three days thoroughly reviewing part of Apollo 17's lunar activities.
- Ancient Egypt's documented history spans approximately three millennia.
- The Arabia Nome was located in northern Egypt, roughly stretching from the eastern bank of the Nile Delta to the Suez Canal region.
- The Bedford Level experiment observations were performed during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Draža Mihailović held the rank of Colonel during the 1941 Chetnik attack on Užice.
- The Battle of Jaktorów ended with the defeat of the main forces of the Kampinos Group by the Germans.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was a partisan battle.
- The aeolipile is also known as Hero's engine.
- The Axis powers were later called the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis.
- The German battleship Tirpitz was sailing as part of a squadron under the command of Admiral Otto Schniewind to intercept convoy PQ 17 on 5 July 1942.
- The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash occurred shortly after takeoff.
- The Dornier Do 24T-3 that crashed in Resko Przymorskie took off from a German Air Force base in Kępa.
- The aircraft involved in the 1945 Resko Przymorskie crash was a Dornier Do 24T-3.
- Millions of people died during World War II as a result of massacres, starvation, and disease.
- In the symbolic stage of mathematical notation, comprehensive notational systems for formulas became the norm.
- The Lwów School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians who worked in the city of Lwów (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) during the interwar period.
- Early mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Ebla was used for taxation, commerce, and trade.
- Ancient Egypt began using arithmetic, algebra, and geometry for taxation, commerce, trade, and astronomy shortly after Mesopotamia did, around 3000 BC.
- Hilbert's problems is an example of an agenda proposing future directions for mathematics.
- In ancient Rome, a 'client kingdom' referred to a kingdom or people that appeared independent but was actually within the Roman Empire's sphere of influence and dependence.
- India conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1974.
- China conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1964.
- The United Kingdom conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1952.
- Russia (or its predecessor, the Soviet Union) conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1949.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain, to date, the only use of nuclear weapons in hostilities.
- The United States initiated the Manhattan Project in 1942 in collaboration with the United Kingdom.
- A cohors peditata quingenaria consisted of about 500 soldiers.
- Unlike the cohors equitata, the cohors peditata contained no cavalry, only infantry.
- A cohors peditata was a body of auxiliary units of the Roman army composed solely of infantrymen.
- The caetra shield had a diameter ranging from 30 cm to 90 cm.
- The American Committee for East–West Accord's stated goals included promoting conciliation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Abo Elementary School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
- Sports diplomacy was used as a form of Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union.
- The Cold War involved no direct military fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Early Chinese cultures showed astronomical interest, as evidenced by historical records.
- In the Americas, Asia, and Africa during the Age of Discovery, most Catholic missions were run by religious orders including the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and Jesuits.
- During the Age of Discovery, Christian missions to indigenous peoples were run hand-in-hand with the colonial efforts of Catholic nations such as Portugal, Spain, and France.
- Juan Cabrero fought as a professional combatant during the Granada War in Spain.
- The interconnected global economy of the 21st century has its origins in the expansion of trade networks during the Age of Discovery.
- The Age of Discovery is sometimes synonymous with the first wave of European colonization.
- The Age of Discovery overlapped with the Age of Sail during the early modern period.
- Ancient Egyptians cultivated papyrus as an industrial crop.
- Ancient Egyptians grew flax as an industrial crop.
- Ancient Egyptians developed basin irrigation as an agricultural technique.
- Ancient Egyptians are credited as being one of the first groups of people to practice agriculture on a large scale.
- The New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt occurred during the Late Bronze Age.
- The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt occurred during the Middle Bronze Age.
- The Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt occurred during the Early Bronze Age.
- Ancient Egypt emerged as a unified civilization around 3150 BC when Upper and Lower Egypt were united.
- The Roman conquest of Egypt occurred in 30 BC, marking the end of the ancient Egyptian period.
- Rémi Hadad authored a chapter titled 'In the shadow of monoliths.: Göbekli Tepe and the monumental tradition of the Pre-Pottery Levant.'
- Editor Kevin C. Ruffner joined the CIA History Staff in 1991 after receiving a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University.
- The world exposition "Internationale Ausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik" (Bugra) opened on 6 May 1914.
- In 1998, six states received CDC funding for core capacity building and two states received funding for more comprehensive programs.
- Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm on 10 December 1929.
- The German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) was solemnly proclaimed on 23 May 1949.
- The new building of the German National Library in Frankfurt opened in 1997.
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was born in the year 980 CE in the town of Afshana in Central Asia.
- The discovery occurred during an archaeological excavation campaign southeast of Lake Colhué Huapi, near the town of Sarmiento, Chubut Province.
- Yuri Gagarin launched into space aboard Vostok-1 on April 12, 1961.
- Samuel Clemens married Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York, in 1870.
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri.
- Marriage between people of the same sex or gender was legislated in Australia from December 2017.
- On May 1, 2011, a U.S. military raid on an al-Qa'ida compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killed Usama Bin Ladin.
- Cory Booker was previously the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
- Cory Booker unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020.
- The conventional theory of North American population holds that the first migrants arrived from Asia across an ancient land bridge.
- Peter Cooper opened Cooper Union in 1859.
- The UK's Freedom of Information Act came into force in 2005, ten years before the BBC published an article about it in January 2015.
- The BBC News article about the Ness of Brodgar arm bone discovery was published on 21 August 2019.
- The Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000 was enacted as part of Pub. L. 106-567 on December 27, 2000.
- A 2002 amendment (Pub. L. 107-306) to 50 USC 435(b)(2) replaced the requirement to report to the 'Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate' with a requirement to report to the 'congressional intelligence committees.'
- The War on the Rocks article reviewing Scott Decker's book on the Amerithrax investigation was published on January 16, 2019.
- Luis Jaime Castillo Butters is affiliated with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and involved in excavations at San José de Moro.
- Gary Urton is associated with a Harvard Summer School archaeological program at San José de Moro, Peru.
- Douglas Scott co-authored the book 'Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn', published in 2000.
- The Yom Kippur War of October 1973 was fought between Egypt and Syria against Israel.
- The International Philatelic Federation was formed in 1926.
- The Library of Congress was founded in 1800.
- Eric M. Jones died in July 2025 at age 81.
- David Woods created the companion Apollo Flight Journal in 1998 to document crewed Apollo flight activities that did not take place on the Moon.
- Aerial reconnaissance can be used for artillery spotting.
- Edwin Henry Barton was a Professor of Physics at University College, Nottingham.
- ORP Czapla was part of the second series of Jaskółka-class minesweepers.
- ORP Czapla was built at the Polish Navy Shipyard in Gdynia.
- ORP Czapla was a Polish coastal minesweeper of the Jaskółka class.
- The Boise Valley Herald ran from June 14, 1928 to September 26, 1968.
- The Boise Valley Herald was a small weekly newspaper based in Middleton, Idaho.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was fought near the village of Budy Zosine, close to Jaktorów.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was fought on 29 September 1944.
- Many countries engaged in total war during World War II on an unprecedented scale.