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When Idi Amin, commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in Uganda on 25 January 1971, there was hope among many Ugandans that a new beginning beckoned.

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, a monk and professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg, circulated his 95 Theses—95 statements critiquing what he saw as papal abuses of power.

On March 12, 2004, South Korea’s then President Roh Moo-hyun was impeached, a historic first for the Republic.

Espionage has become more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but spies remain.

Today, Ludlow, Colorado is a ghost town, yet it remains the site of the deadliest labor war in American history in 1914.

The Marshall Plan, signed into law by President Harry Truman on April 3, 1948, was intended to revive the economies of war-torn Western Europe.

In April 1896, participants from 14 countries converged on Athens to compete in a festival that was simultaneously ancient and modern.

The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States

The Mariner 9 exploration of Mars was a good demonstration of how science and technology literally open new worlds for discovery.

The Soviet-German front that opened with Operation Barbarossa proved to be the decisive theater of the Second World War.

After World War II, canned foods became more and more common, along with a smorgasbord of pre-prepared, processed foods such as SpaghettiOs.

On December 18, 1898, the Jeantaud electric vehicle set the world’s first automotive land speed record of 63.13 km/hr (39.2 mph) over the course of a single kilometer.

Public memory of the battle for Manila includes a mixture of gratitude toward the Americans, nationalistic defiance, and horror.

The date, October 23, 1956, marked the beginning of the ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to Western Europe and the United States.