On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a Japanese city and headquarters of the 2nd General Army. Sixteen hours later after the attack, U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s report of the event was broadcast to radio listeners:

“The world will know that the first atomic [...]

The Deir Yassin massacre (Deir Yassin is also transliterated from Arabic as Dayr Yasin and frequently (mis)transliterated from Hebrew writings as Dir Yassin) refers to the killing of scores of Arab civilians at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem in the British Mandate of Palestine by Jewish irregular forces between April 9 and 11, [...]

World War One or the Great War began with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand who was heir to the throne of the mighty empire of Austria-Hungary.
In the summer of 1914, he and his wife, Sophie, made a visit to the troubled province of Bosnia, where on June 28, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot [...]