History
852 verified facts in this category, showing 801–852.
- The International Philatelic Federation was formed in 1926.
- The Library of Congress was founded in 1800.
- Eric M. Jones died in July 2025 at age 81.
- David Woods created the companion Apollo Flight Journal in 1998 to document crewed Apollo flight activities that did not take place on the Moon.
- Aerial reconnaissance can be used for artillery spotting.
- Edwin Henry Barton was a Professor of Physics at University College, Nottingham.
- ORP Czapla was part of the second series of Jaskółka-class minesweepers.
- ORP Czapla was built at the Polish Navy Shipyard in Gdynia.
- ORP Czapla was a Polish coastal minesweeper of the Jaskółka class.
- The Boise Valley Herald ran from June 14, 1928 to September 26, 1968.
- The Boise Valley Herald was a small weekly newspaper based in Middleton, Idaho.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was fought near the village of Budy Zosine, close to Jaktorów.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was fought on 29 September 1944.
- Many countries engaged in total war during World War II on an unprecedented scale.
- The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash occurred on March 5, 1945.
- After the Allied victory in World War II, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied.
- Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes after World War II.
- World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the deaths of 60 to 75 million people.
- Pakistan conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1998.
- The Roman Republic existed from 509 BC to 27 BC.
- The Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century AD.
- The city of Rome was founded in the 8th century BC.
- Espionage and propaganda were major methods of competition between Western and Eastern Bloc powers during the Cold War.
- The Cold War superpowers competed through proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan rather than direct military confrontation.
- Both the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc developed nuclear weapons based on the principle of mutually assured destruction to deter the other side from attacking.
- The Cold War was termed 'cold' because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc powers.
- The Cold War is commonly dated as occurring between 1947 and 1991, though historians have not fully agreed on the exact dates.
- The Cold War began in the aftermath of the Second World War.
- The Space Race was part of the technological rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- The United States and Soviet Union supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars during the Cold War.
- The Cold War ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church spread Christianity to the New World, Asia, and Africa through missions to convert indigenous peoples.
- The Spaniards and Portuguese opened maritime routes to the East Indies and colonized the Americas, later joined by the English, French, and Dutch.
- The Age of Discovery lasted from approximately the 15th to the 17th century.
- Ancient Egyptians grew wheat and barley as staple food crops.
- Ancient Egyptian civilization relied on the Nile River's dependable seasonal flooding for agriculture.
- The book 'Plant Food Processing Tools at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe' was published by Archaeopress in 2021.
- The chapter 'In the shadow of monoliths.: Göbekli Tepe and the monumental tradition of the Pre-Pottery Levant' appears in the book 'Megaliths of the World,' spanning pages 823-836.
- Frederick Cook was born in 1865.
- Robert E. Peary was born in 1856.
- The Pearl Harbor attack took place on December 7, 1941.
- Aerial reconnaissance can be used for the observation of enemy maneuvers.
- Egyptian archaeology is considered one of the branches of Egyptology.
- Edwin Henry Barton lived from 1858 to 1925.
- The Axis powers were a military coalition that initiated World War II.
- The Holocaust was one of the genocides that occurred during World War II.
- German leaders were tried for war crimes after World War II.
- World War II was fought between two coalitions known as the Allies and the Axis powers.
- The United States conducted its first successful nuclear test in 1945.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred at the close of World War II.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were conducted by the United States in August 1945.
- The Manhattan Project aimed to build a weapon using nuclear fission.