On This Day: January 26
On This Date
1788 - The first European settlers in Australia landed in present-day Sydney.
1802 - Congress passed an act calling for a library to...
On this Day: 3 November 1955 – Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo is born
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, deputy president of South Africa and wife of former public prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka, was born in Claremont, Durban. She was appointed as...
On this Day : 15 March 1990 – Observer journalist executed in Iraq
Britain has strongly condemned the Iraqi authorities over the execution of The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad.
Mr Bazoft - who came to live...
15 Interesting Facts About John Kennedy On His 98th Anniversary
Samuel Masters for Art-Sheep
On this day, almost a century ago, the 35th and second youngest president of the United States was born. The only...
On this Day: 08 April 1973 – Art master Picasso dies
The artist Pablo Picasso has died of a heart attack at his chateau near Cannes on the French Riviera.
He suffered the fatal seizure at...
On this Day : 8 March 1985 – Beirut car bomb kills dozens
At least 45 people have died and 175 have been injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The bomb went off outside a...
On this Day: 12 January 1976 – Crime writer Agatha Christie dies
The most popular novelist in the world, Dame Agatha Christie, has died leaving rumours of a multi-million pound fortune and a final book waiting...
Google Celebrates Sally Ride, The First American Woman In Space
It was this day, sixty-five years ago, on May 26, 1951 that the first American woman to go to space was born. That woman...
42 Years Ago Marlon Brando Refuses An Oscar For His Performance In “The Godfather”
Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep
Greetings, my brave reader.
It is 29th March, 1973 and the 45th Academy Awards are being presented at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...
On this Day: 30 April 1952 – Anne Frank published in English
The moving diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish victim of the Holocaust, is now available in British book shops entitled The Diary of a...
On this Day : 10 March 1969: Martin Luther King’s killer gets life
James Earl Ray has been jailed for 99 years by a court in Memphis, Tennessee, after admitting he carried out the murder of the...
On This Day: 19 January 1966 – Indira Gandhi takes charge in India
Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader.
She was chosen at the end of...