Hong Kong Handover: How Britain Returned 156 Years of Colonial Rule to China at the Stroke of Midnight on July 1, 1997

At the stroke of midnight between June 30 and July 1, 1997, in the cavernous new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, the last notes of God Save the

Canada Confederation: How the Dominion of Canada Was Born on July 1, 1867 and Changed the History of the British Empire

On July 1, 1867, the Dominion of Canada came into existence, not through revolution or war, but through a decade of political negotiation, constitutional compromise, and diplomatic

Battle of Gettysburg Begins: How Three Days in Pennsylvania Became the Bloodiest Battle in American History and the Turning Point of the Civil War

Before the sun had fully risen over the rolling farmlands of Adams County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of July 1, 1863, the course of the American Civil War began to shift. Confed

Battle of the Somme: How One Day on July 1, 1916, Produced 57,000 British Casualties and Changed the Course of the First World War

At precisely 7:30 in the morning on July 1, 1916, along a fifteen-mile front of chalky farmland in the Picardy region of northern France, whistles rang out and an estimated 120,000