Jennifer's 20th Century History Blog October 2005 Archive

Britain's National Archives has released 22 public information films from 1945-1951 and placed them online. Some of the films are in color while others are in black and white. ... Read More

Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq from 1979 until 2003, has gained international notoriety for torturing and murdering thousands of his own people. These five are some of Hussein's most ... Read More

Former Australian Veterans Affairs Minister Danna Vale recently proposed a plan to build a mock Gallipoli at Victoria's Mornington Peninsula in Australia. Vale believed that Gallipoli, the location of an ... Read More

Rosa Parks died at her home on Monday, October 27, 2005 at the age of 92. In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white ... Read More

Bill Gates has donated $15 million to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The museum's mission is "to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories ... Read More

An original copy of the Zimmerman Telegram is believed to have been found by a historian for the British GCHQ. The Zimmerman Telegram was an encrypted message sent from ... Read More

Vivian Malone Jones died at age 63 on Thursday, October 13, 2005 after suffering a stroke on Tuesday. When Jones and another black student, James Hood, attempted to enroll at ... Read More

A short history of the American Red Cross, the only congressionally mandated organization to provide aid to victims of disaster.

Since the fall of Communism in Russia, there has been substantial controversy over what to do with Lenin's body, which has lain in state, preserved, for eight decades. Some ... Read More

Recently, a map has been discovered that shows how T. E. Lawrence (also known as Lawrence of Arabia) thought the Middle East should have been divided at the end of ... Read More

A newspaper mistakenly ran an obituary for Alfred Nobel which called him the merchant of death. Not wanting to go down in history with such a horrible epitaph, Nobel created ... Read More

The Christian Science Monitor provides a fascinating look at the history of U.S. Supreme Court justices who had no experience as judges. In the history of the court, a ... Read More

A Nazi-forged edition of the London Evening Standard was released by British security agency MI5 to the country's national archives last month. The paper, dated February 17, 1940, details ... Read More

During construction work in 1991, a burial ground containing the remains of more than 20,000 slaves and free blacks was found near the New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan. ... Read More