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On 2 July 1900 the first rigid airship built by Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin flew over Lake Constance in Southern Germany. Although the test was not a complete success, it marked the start of a new era in powered flight.
LZ-1 (The First Zeppelin) Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin first saw the potential for [...] The first thirteen articles in my Kings and Queens of England series have been moved to pages on this site from their old home at Triond. The biographies cover the reigns of the kings of the Saxon and Danish houses from August 924 to January 1066. Æthelstan (924-939) Edmund I (939-946) Eadred (946-955) Eadwig [...] On 21 March 1960 in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, 69 black men, women and children were shot dead when police officers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators. The shootings shocked the world and were condemned by the United Nations, but none of the police officers involved have ever been convicted of an offence [...] When the Belgian people voted in a referendum on the return of their king in March 1950 he had been in exile in Switzerland for five years. The question of King Leopold III’s return to Belgium had remained unanswered since the end of the Second World War and a settlement of the matter was [...] On the night of 16 March 1190, the Jewish feast of Shabbat ha-Gadol, 150 men, women and children died at the royal castle at York, where Clifford’s Tower now stands. Many died following a mass-suicide and the rest at the hands of a mob waiting outside. Jewish communities had been established in London in [...] |
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