Dermot MacMurrough was the King of Leinster during the twelfth century and is most remembered as the man who invited…
Tighearnán Mór Ua Ruairc
Tighearnán Mór Ua Ruairc (older spelling: Tigernán Mór Ua Ruairc), anglicised as Tiernan O’Rourke (fl. 1124–1172) ruled the kingdom of Breifne as the 19th king in its…
SpaceX Wins Contract For Next Lunar Lander
NASA will pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX $2.9 billion to build a lunar landing system to ferry astronauts to the surface…
Alexei Navalny ‘Could Die At Any Moment’
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is three weeks into a hunger strike, protesting the lack of medical attention he…
Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with…
1829: Gdańsk dike break flood kills 1,200
April 9, 1829: The Polish city of Gdańsk is flooded when the dike breaks, killing 1,200 people. Gdańsk, also known as Danzig, is…
Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu
Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as Tipu Sahab or the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler…
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924) was an American professional baseball catcher who is credited with being one of the…
Sitting Bull leads his people into Canada
Nearly a year after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and a band of followers cross into Canada hoping to find…
Bosco Ntaganda sentenced to 30 years for crimes
A former Congolese rebel leader has been sentenced to 30 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bosco Ntaganda,…
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي, 27 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian secularist, feminist, humanitarian, author, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. She wrote…
Pioneer 9 Launched to Aid Apollo Astronauts
In 1968, NASA’s primary focus was to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth before the…
Myanmar security forces reportedly killed 93
As Myanmar’s military junta celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade in the country’s capital Saturday, soldiers and police…
Uighurs: Western countries sanction China
Several Western countries have imposed sanctions on officials in China over rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group.…
Niger confirms 137 dead in village attacks near Mali
Gunmen aboard motorcycles have attacked a series of villages near Niger’s troubled border with Mali, leaving at least 137 people…
In Afghanistan, She’s No. 11 On A Murder List
It’s not the risk of contracting COVID-19 that keeps journalist Fatima Roshanian home. It’s the murders. Roshanian scaled back her…
Majestic 12
Majestic 12, also known as MJ-12 for short, is a purported organization that appears in UFO conspiracy theories. The organization is claimed to…
Myanmar a ‘war zone’ – security forces kill 38
At least 38 people were killed after Myanmar’s security forces opened fire on young peaceful protesters in towns and cities…
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko (Russian: Степа́н Макси́мович Петриче́нко; 1892 – June 2, 1947) was a Russian revolutionary, an anarcho-syndicalist politician, the head of the Soviet Republic of…
Yemenis Starve To Death
Hunger has been weaponized in the war in Yemen, says a former U.N. official who is currently in the country.…
