The Creation of the Congo Free State and the Acceleration of the "Race for Africa
Day of democratic liberation, human abysses, a failed coup attempt and birthday of a new democracy
On this day exactly five years ago, on November 4 2016, the Paris Agreement came into effect. Back in 2015, 55 countries responsible for at least 55 percent of greenhouse gases had agreed on the treaty at the UN Climate Change Conference. In the Paris Agreement are,...
Never had the world come so close to nuclear war
On this day 66 years ago… the German Bundestag met for the first time in West Berlin. The session was held for the first time on October 19th in 1955 as a sign of solidarity with West Berlin and its citizens in a temporary meeting room at the TU Berlin. The MPs...
Today, 20 years ago, nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the United States. For the first time in its history, NATO decides to invoke the alliance and goes to war alongside the USA. Its target: Afghanistan. Civil war has been raging...