Milestones

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US Marines fight rebellious Boxers outside Beijing Legation Quarter, 1900 – copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer
The Boxer Rebellion
The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
A Brief History of Alcoholics Anonymous
The University of Algiers, ca. 1920.
The University of Algiers Library Bombing
On the first day of the uprising, protesters assembled around the fountain outside the Jeollanam-do Provincial Office, a site that would become central to the struggle against military oppression. Courtesy of the 5.18 Foundation.
Gwangju Isn’t Over
Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980.
The WHO and the Eradication of Smallpox
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.
Discovering Pluto
Zimbabwe Flag against a blue sky
Colonial Land Injustices in Post-Independence Zimbabwe
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.
Beethoven’s First Symphony
Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.
Albania’s First Republic
One of the McMinnville UFO photographs. Skeptics have concluded that the UFO was a small model suspended by wires or string from the power lines visible at the top of the photo.
The Air Force Investigation into UFOs
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
Female governors left to right, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Ella T. Grasso, Kay Orr, and Gretchen Whitmer.
A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024
Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.
The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Black Woodstock: The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD, Oil on Canvas, Robert Hubert, 1785. In the Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux; Le Havre, France.
The Great Fire of Rome
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
The Berlin Airlift
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.
The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America
The South Korean flag in Seoul, South Korea.
The Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun and the Patterns of South Korean Politics
The Statue of Liberty during the June 10, 2021 solar eclipse.
Solar Eclipses in American History
Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922
The Long End of the Ottoman Empire
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Count Gaston aboard his Jeantaud electric, 1899.
The Jeantaud Electric Car Land Speed Record
Joel Roberts Poinsett on a background of poinsettias.
Poinsettia Day, the Monroe Doctrine, and U.S.-Mexican Relations
The Beatles, upon their arrival at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on February 7,1964.
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”