1649: The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other high crimes 1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey 1912 Geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture to the Geological Association at the Senckenberg Museum […]
Denmark’s prime minister has told Donald Trump to “stop the threats” about taking over Greenland. Mette Frederiksen said “it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland”, adding: “The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom.” Her remarks […]
EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called for ‘calm and restraint by all actors’ as the Trump administration remained vague on its transition plan for Venezuela after the ousting on Maduro. All member states, except for Hungary, supported the statement released by Kallas on Sunday night.
Anyone predicting in early 2000 that Athens would evolve into an important point on the international contemporary art map would almost certainly have received a skeptical look. Greece didn’t have a fully operational Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) at the turn of the century, nor a biennale, nor even a consistent presence of artists at […]
1477: Battle of Nancy: Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeats the Duchy of Burgundy, 7,000+ killed including the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold 1781: British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia 1919: German Workers’ Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) 1930: Mao Zedong writes […]
By Martin Banks MEPs appear split on the reported overthrow of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by US Special Forces.. Maduro is expected to appear in a court in New York on drugs and weapons charges. President Trump ordered the strikes against the country saying Maduro and his wife had been captured from a “fortress like” […]
By Martin Banks Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, says the EU “stands in full solidarity with Switzerland” following the tragic fire at Crans Montana which has claimed at least 40 lives, many of them young people.
It has emerged that Turkey secured the procurement of 10 GE F110 engines from US-based GE Aerospace, the successor to General Electric. The engines are a critical component of Turkey’s first indigenous fighter jet, KAAN, which is being developed by state-owned Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).
1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government 1865: New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad Street, near Wall Street, in New York City 1959: USSR’s Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes the first spacecraft to escape Earth’s gravity 1961: Longest recorded strike ends as Danish barbers’ […]
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has called for Yemen’s southern factions to attend a “dialogue” in Riyadh, after a dramatic turn of events in the south brought Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates into unprecedented direct confrontation. Both Gulf powers have intervened on behalf of Yemen’s internationally recognised government in the country’s long-running civil war, […]
