Napoleon Dies in Exile: The Final Years of Bonaparte on Saint Helena

On May 5, 1821, at 5:49 in the evening, Napoleon Bonaparte died in his bedroom at Longwood House on the island of Saint Helena, a British-held territory in the South Atlantic Ocean

Kublai Khan: How the Grandson of Genghis Khan Became Ruler of the World’s Largest Empire

On May 6, 1260, a kurultai, the formal assembly of Mongol tribal chiefs and princes, proclaimed Kublai Khan the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, the supreme ruler of the largest co

Thatcher Becomes PM: How Britain’s First Female Prime Minister Came to Power on May 4, 1979

On the afternoon of May 4, 1979, a fifty-three-year-old woman who had once said in a television interview that she did not think there would be a woman prime minister in her politi

Kent State Shootings: The Day the Ohio National Guard Killed Four Students

At 12:24 p.m. on May 4, 1970, twenty-eight members of the Ohio National Guard turned and opened fire on a crowd of students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. In thirteen seco

May Fourth Movement: How Chinese Students Sparked a Nationalist Revolution in 1919

On the morning of May 4, 1919, student representatives from thirteen colleges and universities gathered in Beijing to discuss a catastrophic diplomatic betrayal. By the afternoon,