Former prime minister Brian Mulroney has died. He was 84. His daughter Caroline Mulroney shared the news Thursday afternoon on social media.
The Tokyo Skytree measures 634 m (2080 ft). It is also the world’s second tallest man-made structure, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The country’s first democratically elected president was toppled in a coup d’etat following the assassination of a gang leader. Aristide went into exile in South Africa and returned to Haiti in 2011.
The siege of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital during the Bosnian War was the longest lasting siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.
A wrong barometric altimeter setting caused the pilots to fly too low during an approach to Rodríguez Ballón International Airport in Arequipa, Peru.
She won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in the 1939 historical romance “Gone with the Wind”.
The pope whose birth name is Joseph Ratzinger was the first leader of the Catholic Church to resign since 1415.
The armed conflict had lasted a little over half a year and claimed over 100,000 civilian casualties.
Even though over 130 people have confessed to the murder, the case has never been solved.
The Moorgate tube crash claimed 43 lives and was the deadliest accident in the London Underground in during peacetime.
Wallace Carothers first produced the polymer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
The attack was carried out by a group of Islamist militants. 6 people died in the blast.
The browser “WorldWideWeb” (later renamed “Nexus”) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the internet.
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene is considered one of the best silent films of the horror genre.
The “Original Dixieland Jass Band” recorded “Livery Stable Blues” for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
A series of 21 short Kinemacolor films were presented at the Palace Theatre in London.
