TIL Tag: history
34 headlines found.
- Cold War 'Candy Bomber' Gail Halvorsen dies at 101
February 18, 2022 - European Commission President says world is "watching in disbelief" amid largest troop buildup since Cold War
February 19, 2022 - 97-year-old former Nazi secretary sentenced for involvement in more than 10,000 murders.
December 20, 2022 - Zelenskiy invokes fight against Nazi Germany in speech to US Congress.
December 22, 2022 - Suella Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she will not apologise for 'invasion' rhetoric
January 15, 2023 - Giant sloth pendants indicate humans settled Americas earlier than thought
July 12, 2023 - Henry Kissinger, top US diplomat in Cold War, dies aged 100
November 30, 2023 - Stone Age megastructure found submerged in the Baltic Sea wasn't formed by nature, scientists say
February 13, 2024 - US designates Nordic neo-Nazi group as terrorists
June 15, 2024 - Keir Starmer to attend Paris Armistice ceremony, the first UK prime minister to do so since World War II
November 10, 2024 - Biden condemns 'sickening' neo-Nazi march in Ohio
November 19, 2024 - Auschwitz survivor warns of 'huge rise in antisemitism' in speech marking 80 years since death camp's liberation
January 27, 2025 - Putin orders revival of Soviet-era Eurovision rival
February 4, 2025 - Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, has died at age 113
February 27, 2025 - Centuries-old Buddhist temple destroyed as 'unprecedented' South Korea wildfires leave at least 19 dead
March 26, 2025 - Ukraine could be partitioned like Berlin after second world war, says US envoy
April 12, 2025 - Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit
May 10, 2025 - Germany deploys permanent troops to another country for the first time since World War II
May 23, 2025 - MI5 neo-Nazi spy: Judge had 'no confidence' in Security Service's account of false evidence
June 3, 2025 - Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies
August 31, 2025 - By mid-January, Putin's conflict in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front during WWII
December 31, 2025 - Anne Frank stepsister and Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss dies aged 96
January 4, 2026 - Russia's 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since World War II, report says
January 28, 2026 - Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans
March 17, 2026 - Sunken warship found off Danish coast after 225 years in ‘remarkable’ discovery
April 3, 2026 - Italian council buys Mussolini’s villa to keep it away from ‘fascist nostalgics’
April 4, 2026 - Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library
April 29, 2026 - Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader's descendants
May 11, 2026 - France overturns law classing people as property – 178 years after it abolished slavery
May 28, 2026 - Israel seizes Crusader-era castle as Netanyahu orders forces deeper into Lebanon
June 1, 2026 - Sunken wreck of WWII ‘hell ship’ used to transport POWs discovered after more than 80 years
June 19, 2026 - Zelensky stripped of highest Polish honour over WW2 name of army unit
June 20, 2026 - Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI
June 26, 2026 - Artifacts dating back 400,000 years, found in cave, show ‘complex and rich’ pre-human society
June 29, 2026