At precisely 3:00 in the afternoon on November 2, 1936, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched the world’s first regularly scheduled high-definition television service
On November 1, 1993, after months of uncertainty, political drama, and narrow referendum results across twelve nations, the Maastricht Treaty officially came into force. With its e
On November 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison sat down with two proclamations of statehood on his desk. On the table before him were the official documents admitting what had be
On November 2, 1795, the French Directory formally assumed power in Paris, inaugurating a new phase in the French Revolution that would last four years and transform France from th
At his home in Palo Alto, California, on October 5, 2011, Steven Paul Jobs took a last long look at the faces of his family gathered around him and spoke his final words. His siste
At 7:15 in the morning on November 1, 1952, local time, a device the size of a small factory building detonated on the tiny Pacific island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll in the Mars
On November 28, 1893, New Zealand women walked into polling booths across the country for the first time in history. They had won the right to vote just ten weeks earlier, when Gov
On November 1, 1848, twelve women walked into a classroom in Boston, Massachusetts, and took their seats as medical students. This was not merely an unusual occurrence. It was an e
On the afternoon of October 5, 1877, in the foothills of the Bear Paw Mountains in northern Montana Territory, a man named Hinmatóowyalahtq’it mounted a black pony with a Me
On the morning of October 5, 1813, American forces under Major General William Henry Harrison caught up with the retreating British and their Native American allies along the north
