At nine o’clock in the morning on July 4, 2012, at the headquarters of CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — in Geneva, Switzerland, the Main Auditorium
At approximately ten o’clock in the morning on July 4, 1946, a massive crowd gathered at the Luneta grandstand — the great open park in the heart of Manila that Filipinos w
At ten o’clock in the morning on July 4, 1863 — the eighty-seventh anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — approximately 29,000 Confederate soldiers filed out of
On the morning of July 4, 1831, the United States was celebrating the fifty-fifth anniversary of its independence with the festivities that had become a national tradition — the
At 12:01 in the morning on August 1, 1981, a new cable television channel flickered to life in homes across parts of New Jersey. The screen filled with footage of a rocket launch c
At 5:00 in the afternoon on August 1, 1944, shots rang out across the streets of Warsaw. At precisely that hour, the hour that Poles would come to call “W Hour,” the Po
On August 1, 1914, the German Foreign Minister delivered a formal declaration of war to the Russian Imperial court. The message was terse and absolute: “His Majesty the Emper
On August 28, 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formally ending the institution of slavery across most of the British E
On August 1, 1774, a forty-one-year-old English minister and amateur scientist named Joseph Priestley focused sunlight through a twelve-inch glass burning lens onto a small lump of
On the morning of July 4, 1826, the United States of America was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its independence — the Jubilee, as newspapers and citizens had taken to c
