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1842 – The University of Notre Dame (building pictured) was founded by Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
A team of scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Sakha Republic, Russia, unveil the highly preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old female juvenile woolly mammoth named Yana. The researchers say Yana was roughly about one-year-old when she died, likely from drowning, and was discovered in the Batagaika crater by locals.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Asked this week if a repeat of the events in 1993 is possible in today’s Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ruled it out, saying the country has “left the dark times behind and drawn its ...
October 23: At the end of an 11-year demining process, the Falkland Islands are declared free of land mines, 38 years after the end of the Falklands War. October 29: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirms the death of least 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of Senegal on a vessel bound for the Spanish Canary Islands.
Image credits: Old-time Photos "That's why funny, unexpected and random events in old photos always seem so much more magical to me," Ed continued. "The odds of capturing that moment were ...
November 30, 2018 – Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred. 2019 – All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States.
On Sept. 19, 1994, the first episode of ER premiered on NBC, launching one of the most popular and influential network TV dramas of the ’90s. Critics praised the episode for its unprecedented ...