August 2, 1943 — The Japanese destroyer Amagiri rams and sinks US Navy PT-109
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, under the command of Lieutenant junior grade John F. Kennnedy, was one of 15 PT boats...
November 4, 2018
Politics & War
April 29, 1945 — Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler in 1929, when she was only 17 years old. At the time, she was...
October 19, 2018
September 5, 1945 — Iva Toguri D’Aquino is arrested under suspicion of being “Tokyo Rose”
During the Second World War, Japanese propagandist and DJ Tokyo Rose broadcasted to American and Allied soldiers from somewhere behind...
October 4, 2018
June 5, 1947 — The Marshall Plan is announced
Named for then US Secretary of State George Marshall, the Marshall Plan is one of the largest foreign aid schemes...
September 25, 2018
July 5, 1948 — The National Health Service begins in the UK
Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan was a Welshman from Tredegar who rose through the union ranks to become Minister of Health in...
September 19, 2018
February 9, 1950 — Joe McCarthy claims there are Communists in the State Department
Joe McCarthy was a shameless political hack who hitched his wagon to that never-failing engine of conservative vote winning: the...
August 9, 2018
June 25, 1950 — The Korean War begins
The Korean War was caused by the conditions holding since the end of World War Two. Korea had been split...
July 14, 2018
November 7, 1950 — Richard Nixon elected to the US Senate
It’s commonly believed that this is where Nixon got his start in politics, but in fact he was a member...
July 4, 2018
April 21, 1951 — Codename Easy, an A-bomb, is tested at the Enewetak Atoll
The nuclear tests at Enewetak were part of a series called Operation Greenhouse. The bombs in the Greenhouse series were...
June 24, 2018
July 17, 1951 — The Bantu Authorities Act comes into force in South Africa
The Bantu Authorities Act was one of the major foundations of apartheid in South Africa. It permitted the forced removal...
June 4, 2018
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