The Cold War was a geopolitical chess match between the United States, the Soviet Union, and both parties’ allies in which the major power players sought to project their respective ideologies across the globe in the wake of colonialism’s collapse following World War Two. The period occurred ...
1941 Crete World War II 1941 : The German Army using over 22,000 Paratroopers conquer Crete. 1952 France Communists 1952: Police throughout the country raided many Communist organization's headquarters and seized documents and weapons. It was likely that party members had previous knowledge of the...
May 14th Major News Events 1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition started. 1948 Israel is declared an independent state. 1955 The USSR and Eastern Bloc allies signed the Warsaw Pact. 1973 The first US space station, Skylab, was launched into orbit. 1991 Two commuter trains crashed in ...
In efforts to avoid another World War, The Kellogg-Briand Pact also known as the Pact of Paris was an agreement to outlaw war signed by the United States and 14 other nations. The U.S. Senate ratified the pact in a vote of 85-1, but only after noting that U.S. would still reserve...
Speaking for the 'world power economy': electricity, energo-materialist economics, and the World Energy Council (1924–78) The emergence of a field of global energy policy is usually traced back to the events around the 1973鈥 74 oil embargo. This article provides a prehistory to this by tr...
The Titleholderswas played from 1937 to 1966 (with a gap for World War II) and once more in 1972, then discontinued. (The tour introduced a season-ending tournament named Titleholders in 2011, but that tournament is not related to the earlier one.) TheWomen's Western Openwas played from...
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and around the world, the Christmas broadcast is a sort of State of the Union at year’s end—a barometer of national and global issues and events. In 1932, British King George V began the tradition. [Pictured: King George V making his annual Christmas broadcast to the nation.] 1931: ...
Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01536470 Introduction The number of patients undergoing major surgery worldwide is growing with advancements in treating disease.1 However, many patients still die or experience severe perioperative complications.2 Hemodynamic instability is common during sur...
November 14 and 21:The famous two-part "abortion episode" of "Maude" aired and drew protest letters. Some affiliate stations refused to air it. Abortion was legal in New York, where the sitcom took place. Key Events of United States Feminism During the 1960s 1973 The International Feminist ...