20th century history

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 July 1908, into a Black family that valued education, discipline and…

Sidney Poitier was born on 20 February 1927 in Miami, Florida, while his Bahamian parents were in the United States…

By the end of 1915, the First World War had ground itself into a stalemate that nobody had planned for,…

In the years before Soviet tanks crossed the Afghan border, Afghanistan was already a country in deep turmoil. Far from…

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu stands as one of the most compassionate, charismatic and courageous moral leaders of the twentieth and…

On the night of 4 June 1968, the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles was alive with celebration.…

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963 remains one of the most shocking and controversial events in…

The Cold War was a tense and complex period in world history, marked by ideological rivalry, proxy conflicts, and the…

The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948 sent shockwaves across India and the world, marking the violent end…

Joe DiMaggio Biography There are some names that are almost synonymous with baseball.  Names like Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Reggie…