5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan executed in Nagasaki
The group, which included six foreign Franciscan friars, three Japanese Jesuits, and seventeen Japanese lay Christians, was sentenced to death by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after statements from a shipwrecked...
5 Feb 0s
4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war .....
4 Feb 0s
3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA
Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a ...
3 Feb 0s
2nd February 1887: First officially recorded Groundhog Day observance takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
The custom of predicting the weather using an animal drew on older beliefs brought to North America by German-speaking immigrants, whose tradition stated that clear weather on that date suggested a pr...
2 Feb 0s
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department ...
1 Feb 0s
31st January 1990: McDonald’s opens its first fast food restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square
Although a standard hamburger cost the price of ten loaves of bread, some news outlets estimated that 30,000 people passed through the doors on the first ...
31 Jan 0s
30th January 1975: Rubik’s Cube first patented by Hungarian architect and designer Ernő Rubik
International recognition came after the cube was exhibited at the 1979 Nuremberg Toy Fair where it attracted the attention of the Ideal Toy Company, and was later renamed Rubik's ...
30 Jan 0s
29th January 1856: The Victoria Cross medal for valour introduced by Queen Victoria
The Victoria Cross, which is commonly referred to as the VC, is the highest military decoration in the British honours system and takes precedence over every other order and ...
29 Jan 0s
