Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the area.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
On the 1st February 1968, American photojournalist Eddie Adams took a photograph of South Vietnamese National Police Chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém in Saigon.
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.
30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR
30th October 2020
27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me
27th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018