Wikipedia defines history as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. It came from the Greek word ‘historia’ – which means ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation’.. This website utilizes entries from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are 105,060 records in the database …

Jun 02, 2022 · On June 2, 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs.The following year ...

Jan 29 1964 Dr. Strangelove is Released Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy...

Jul 19, 2017 · This Day in History – Chandrayaan 1 was launched; This Day in History – Launching of Doordarshan; This section will go hand-in-hand with your UPSC 2020 preparation as it will enhance your knowledge about Indian history, polity and economy among others and help in improving your memory and associate with it what you have studied for the day ...

Jan 06, 2021 · Understanding the events that occurred on January 6, 2021, requires careful reading, rigorous thinking, and an appreciation for the complex array of causes at work in history and current events. This Teaching Idea guides students to resist oversimplified explanations of what happened during the insurrection by using an iceberg diagram to ...

Jan 25 1924 to Feb 5 1924 I Olympic Winter Games Held in Chamonix, France The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix,...

Census Day was January 1, 1920. Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States on Census Day, January 1, 1920. Authorizing Legislation. The date change for the 1920 census was requested by the Department of Agriculture. The department believed that in January, harvests would be completed and information about those harvests would still be ...

Oct 14, 2009 · The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occured in 1994 when members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as ...

Historical Events. Jan 23 China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 9 million people, in a belated but ultimately successful effort to control the city's COVID-19 epidemic; Mar 11 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths

Jan 31 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad; Feb 2 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II; Feb 9 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific; Mar 3 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces …