Berlin Airlift Begins (1948)

Following a Soviet blockade of all ground routes into and out of Berlin, American and British forces organise airlifts to maintain food supplies into the isolated city. On June 26 1948, the effort to feed more than two million people in the city of Berlin beg...

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ON THIS DAY MAY 2ND 2O11 Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. forces

On this day in 2011, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, is killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Islamic extremists, had been...

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On This Day May 2nd 1933 Loch Ness Monster sighted

Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen “an...

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Pearl Harbour Attacked (1941)

December 7th 1941 - The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise devastating air attack against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbour, Haw...

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Charles Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic Solo (1927)

Charles Lindbergh achieves the world's first non-stop transatlantic flig...

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