1718 events
A parade in Sétif, French Algeria, celebrating the end of World War II in Europe became a riot and was followed by repri
The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repat
The United States conducted the first detonation of a nuclear weapon during the Trinity test (pictured).
A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people and causing an estimated…
World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan…
World War II: The USAAF bomber Bockscar dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb (replica pictured) on Nagasaki, Japan.
Amid rumors of kidnappings of children by Jews in Kraków, a crowd of Poles took part in a pogrom, resulting in at…
An official administrative history of the Manhattan Project, written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth, was…
The Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong was liberated following the announcement of the surrender of Japan in World…
The independence of Indonesia was proclaimed by Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta , igniting a revolution against the Dutch…
World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the…
On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied…
World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek
World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek
Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Oper
World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and th