On this day: October 29, 1929 – Wall Street’s “Black Tuesday”.
For the West, the 1920s was a time of wealth and excess.…
On this day: October 30, 1922 – Mussolini prime minister of Italy
The end of World War I found Italy in a critical situation.…
On this day: October 31, 1956 – The Suez Crisis changes the facts
On July 26, 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser made a move…
On this day: October 26, 1912 – The liberation of Thessaloniki
Greece declared war on the Ottoman Empire on October 5, 1912, marking…
On this day: October 27, 1951 – Central government under N. Plastiras
In the early 1950s, the country's political life was going through a…
On this day: October 22, 1991 – The election of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
"The Indimeous Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected yesterday, in accordance…
On this day: October 23, 1942 – The Battle of El Alamein begins
In 1942 the situation for the Allies during World War II was…
On this day: October 24, 1929 – “Black Thursday”, harbinger of the Great Crash
The 1920s found the United States in a period of prosperity: American…
On this day: October 25, 1979 – Referendum on Basque and Catalan autonomy
After the death of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in November 1975,…
On this day: October 19, 1980 – Greece rejoins the military arm of NATO
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 brought Greece and Turkey to…
