On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitary public works employees. On April 3, King addressed a rally and delivered Advertisements
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Yalta Conference – The “Big Three” Conference in Yalta
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization
Charles de Gaulle – The birthplace of General in Lille
French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II, and chaired the Provisional Government of the French
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln in Washington
The 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at
The “Man Kenya” murdered in Nairobi
In the summer of 1969, Kenya lost in a tragic and violent way one of the most fervent and young political minds in the country, a symbol of
The Murder of the Russian Imperial Family at Yekaterinburg
The last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. In 1914, Russia was drawn into World War I, but was unprepared for the scale and magnitude of the fighting. Russia had the largest number of deaths in the war— over 1.8 million military deaths, and about 1.5 million […]
Mandela’s moments in Robben Island
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Island, off the coast from Bloubergstrand. It was here in a prison that Mandela would spend eighteen of his twenty-seven years of prison sentence before he would be freed just prior to the fall of apartheid in South Africa. From 1961 to 1991, a maximum-security prison here held […]
The founder of the Republic of Armenia, died in Yerevan
Armenian revolutionary, statesman, and a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation party. He is widely regarded as the founder of the First Republic of Armenia. Activities of Aram Manukian during the years of the Armenian Genocide are invaluable, especially in the organization of Van self-defense. In spring 1915, under his leadership, the local Armenian parties, taking […]
