On the morning of May 2, 1519, in a small château on the banks of the Loire River in Amboise, France, the most curious mind in human history fell silent forever. Leonardo da Vinci
Shortly before 1:00 a.m. on May 2, 2011, in a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, US Navy SEALs shot and killed Osama bin Laden the founder of al-Qaeda and the man responsible
On the morning of May 1, 1960 May Day, the Soviet Union’s proudest national holiday an American spy plane took off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and began a nine-hour mission deep
On May 1, 1931, a button was pressed in Washington, D.C., and the lights of the world’s tallest building flickered on for the first time above the Manhattan skyline. Presiden
On the foggy morning of February 1, 1979, a chartered Air France Boeing 747 descended through the clouds over Tehran and touched down at Mehrabad International Airport. Aboard that
On February 24, 1942, a radio signal traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and into the homes of people living under Nazi occupation. The message was brief, direct, and unlike
On the morning of January 2, 1942, columns of Japanese soldiers marched through the wide, eerily quiet streets of Manila. The city that had long been called the Pearl of the Orient
On January 2, 1905, in the frozen hills above the harbor of Port Arthur — a deep-water naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in southern Manchuria — a white flag was
On January 2, 1788, in the city of Augusta, Georgia, a specially elected convention of delegates cast a unanimous vote to ratify the United States Constitution, making Georgia the
On January 2, 1492, one of the most consequential moments in the history of the Iberian Peninsula unfolded beneath the walls of the magnificent Alhambra palace. Muhammad XII — kn
