Months Past

The most influential of 19th-century Russian wits was born on 31 March 1809.

More than 900 people perished in the Jonestown mass suicide of November 18th 1978.

Nelson was born on 29 September 1758.

The agreement permitting Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on 29 September 1938.

John Logie Baird gave the first demonstration of a colour television transmission on 3 July 1928.

Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered on July 17th, 1918.

Nigel Watson recalls a mysterious explosion that occurred in deepest Siberia on 30 June 1908.

The treaties that ended the first part of the second Opium War were signed on 26 and 27 June 1858.

Kennedy was fatally shot on 5 June 1968, in Los Angeles, California. He died the following day.