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Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet head of state to visit the United States. During the next two weeks, Khrushchev’s visit dominated the news and provided some dramatic and humorous moments in the history of the Cold War. Khrushchev came to powe
From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history’s biggest chapters. Prehistory Prehistory Ancient Greece Ancient Greece Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt Ancient China Ancient China Ancient Middle East Ancient Middle East Ancient Americas Ancient Americas Ancient Rome Ancient Rome...
However, the government finds little popularity among the population. The black market and the corruption flourish with the general poverty of the population. July 4 1946 The US officially declares the Philippines as independent under President Truman. The country remains, however, in a strong ...
An 80's cop from Detroit takes on crime in BH 1980s Detroit Tigers: The Movie Ernie Harwell, Kell, Kaline An 80's retrospective of America's greatest sport 1980s Wall Street Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas The wily world of wall street trading is revealed 1980s The Hunt for ...
In my first book, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago (published by Cambridge University Press in 2003), I traced the rise of radical new ideas about the social causes of crime in modern industrial cities and the new institutions of law and liberal governance that th...
But to Topacio, an “amateur historian†by his own admission, Hitler is “one of the most misunderstood historical figures. “His main fault, his main crime, was that he lost the war. And as you know, history is written by the victors,†he says...
Also on This Day in History Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on April 27th Navigator Ferdinand Magellan killed in the Philippines After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand...
Black Panthers Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, are gunned down by 14 police officers as they lie sleeping in their Chicago, Illinois, apartment. About a hundred bullets had been fired in what police described as a fierce gun battle with members of
Regardless, flames sweptnorth- and eastward from the southwestside of Chicago quickly. By the time the fire was brought under control, 300 people had perished and 100,000 individuals were leftwithout homes. In the aftermath of the disaster, looting and crime resulted in even more destructio...