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4 days ago · Historical Events on May 26. Calendar. Summary. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Weddings. 451 The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
4 days ago · James Ramsay MacDonald FRS ( né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman [1] and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.
5 days ago · Without the 1924 law, the Great Migration of blacks to the North and West — described most memorably in “The Warmth of Other Suns” — could not have happened.
5 days ago · From the 1990s onward, several events shattered the world’s hopes for long-term peace and prosperity. These include genocide, war in Africa and Southern Europe, and economic issues in Eastern Europe. Communist China, too, survived the fall of the Soviet Union and slowly built its might to compete with the United States.
11 hours ago · Olympic Games, quadrennial athletic festival that is often regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition. The ancient Olympic Games included several sports that are now part of the Summer Games program, which includes events in as many as 32 different sports. Learn more about the Olympic Games in this article.
2 days ago · American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate States of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
3 days ago · Of the seven members elected to the Politburo between the October Revolution and Lenin's death in 1924, four were executed, one committed suicide, and two (Molotov and Kalinin) lived. [citation needed] While being the most visible part, the trials and executions of the former Bolshevik leaders were only a minor aspect of the purges.
