On the afternoon of July 4, 1776, in the stifling summer heat of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress completed two days o
On July 5, 1962, in cities and towns across Algeria, people poured into the streets in waves of joy that the world’s cameras recorded with astonishment. Children rode on thei
At 9:54 in the morning of July 3, 1988, two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes tore through the fuselage of an Airbus A300 climbi
On July 3, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison sat at his desk in Washington, D.C., and signed the proclamation admitting Idaho to the Union as the forty-third state of the United St
At approximately two o’clock in the afternoon on July 3, 1863, on a broad, sun-scorched Pennsylvania farm field south of the town of Gettysburg, roughly 12,500 Confederate so
At 4:30 in the morning of June 3, 1864, three Union corps of the Army of the Potomac advanced through thick ground fog and pre-dawn darkness toward Confederate earthworks at Cold H
On the night of June 2 to 3, 1098, a small group of Crusader knights scaled the walls of Antioch using ladders lowered from inside by a sympathetic Armenian guard named Firouz. Wit
On June 2, 2014, at a ceremony held in Hyderabad, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao took the oath of office as the first Chief Minister of Telangana. In that single moment, decades of
On July 3, 1775, a tall 43-year-old Virginia planter rode his horse into Cambridge, Massachusetts, drew his sword before thousands of assembled troops, and formally took command of
On July 3, 324 AD, on the flat plains near the city of Hadrianopolis in the Roman province of Thrace — the city that would later be known as Adrianople, and that is today the Tur
