On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant Reformation.
At 3.51pm on the afternoon of the 25th January 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrived in New Jersey after completing a 72 day, 24,899-mile journey around the world.
The first instalment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys triggered the Boy Scout movement.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an abortion.
Nuclear propulsion enabled Nautilus to smash numerous records including those for both submerged speed and distance, and became the first submarine to transit the North Pole in August 1958.
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November 1983.
The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual rights and liberties are threatened.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
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