Here are entries that are tagged “history.”
On this date in 1979, Soviet forces assaulted Tajbeg Palace and killed Afghanistan’s President Hafizullah Amin, his 11-year-old son, and 150 other persons.
On December 26, 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck Indonesia, causing a giant tsunami off Sumatra Island and killing more than 230,000 persons in a dozen Asian nations.
On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, guaranteeing women citizens the right to vote, was declared to be in effect.