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1948 UN Peace Keeper Folke Bernadotte Assassinated 1928 Boston Braves String of Nine Doubleheaders Ends On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II (though by... Read More The Confederate army secured a decisive victory at Chickamauga but lost 20 percent of its force in battle. After two days of fierce fighting,... Read More On Sept. 17, 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan stopped Gen. Robert E. Lee's first Confederate invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam,... Read More On September 17, 1939, only a couple weeks after World War II in Europe began, the German U-boat, U-29, sunk the British aircraft carrier HMS... Read More ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1931 Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in... Read More During the fight for Jewish statehood, extremist military groups sometimes resorted to the use of terrorist tactics. One such instance... Read More eventy-five years ago today, a little squib contributed decisively to changing American attitudes toward the Soviet... Read More Upon the death of Augustus, Tiberius Claudius Nero stood as the last logical choice in a long and tumultuous line of potential heirs. In 14... Read More efore Ernie Banks said, Let s play two , the Boston Braves played two; and again, and again, and again and when it... Read More Teachers looking for a history and civics curriculum that focuses on America s promise of securing liberty for all have a new resource:... Read More Our human ancestors were roaming Earth as far back as 6 million years ago, but what is the earliest site containing archaeological evidence... Read More Golfers are forever trying to avoid everything from bunkers, the rough and water to other players putting lines. In Lincolnshire the... Read More NEW ORLEANS (AP) A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th... Read More The first-ever Neanderthal found in The Netherlands, who scientists call Krijn, has now been brought more fully to life . A pair of... Read More Do we need another wrist-breaking book about Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich and World War... Read More George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing... Read More Countless books have been written and films made about the Warsaw Ghetto. It saw more than 400,000 Jews packed into the... Read More Military history and its practitioners were long derided for their obsession with battle. The bugles and banners style of operational... Read More Thousands of years after Homer s Iliad described the events of the Trojan War, its dramatic resonance and memorable characters have... Read More A column of American M-4 Sherman medium tanks moved through Dison, Belgium, in late summer 1944, near the city of Liege. The tankers belonged... Read More In his showily imperial way MacArthur became a substitute emperor figure, ensconced mystically atop Tokyo s Dai Ichi... Read More On the eve of World War II, many Iranians contrasted the United States with Great Britain and the Soviet Union, seeing it as the one... Read More The Incheon Landing, code named Operation Chromite is quite possibly the most recognized action taken during the Korean... Read More The Land Run of 1889, although not without precedent in the history of the West, began the disposal of the federal public domain in Oklahoma.... Read More George Washington was often concerned he would die young. His father died at 48 and his favorite sibling, Lawrence, was only in his early... Read More Few of the poet Fernando Pessoa s diaries survive, mostly businesslike lists of classes he attended or didn t attend, people he... Read More Just over four centuries ago, the ship The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth in the UK to the shores of America, carrying with it a group of... Read More Independence Day presents an ideal opportunity to reflect upon our nationâ??s rich history and to commend those figures who sacrificed for... Read More World War II was the greatest conflict in history, carried out on a scale almost impossible to grasp. In many ways it was the first modern war, in which airpower played a vital role both on land and at sea, but many actions were ultimately won by the determination and grit of the foot soldier. Here\ s the whole vast panoramic epic of the Second World War presented in 20 of its most significant bat... Read More After the clashes and white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, the latest dimension of our unfolding national meltdown is over monuments to the Confederacy. In retaliation for the violence in Charlottesville, demonstrators pulled down a Confederate statue in Durham, several cities in the North quickly yanked theirs down, and several other places are considering the same thing.... Read More During the fight for Jewish statehood, extremist military groups sometimes resorted to the use of terrorist tactics. One such instance occurred in 1948 when members of the Jewish underground organization LEHI killed UN Peace Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte to protest his diplomatic efforts to modify the Palestine partition plan.Bernadotte, a Swede with family ties to the Swedish King, gained int... Read More

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