Spies put atomic bomb in hands of the Soviets
When the Soviets successfully tested their first atomic bomb 70 years ago today it sent seismic and political shockwaves around the world
Today In History
Real-life crime of passion inspired Chicago the musical
When Beulah Annan shot dead her lover in 1924 she could never have imagined the act would make her the basis of a character in a hit musical
Fuel crisis inspired Mini classic with a big heart
It was a little car designed to appeal to consumers during a fuel crisis, but the Mini Minor went on to be a major force in motoring
Pioneer private eye had own brush with the law
He changed the way criminals were caught but Allan Pinkerton had his own brushes with the authorities
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Rebellion freed Cuba from ‘yoke of Spain’
WHEN a Cuban plantation owner plotted rebellion against Spain he was forced to move it forward four days
Nixon’s fall guy knew ‘too damned much’
THE man in dark glasses testifying before a US senate committee could have been a spook out of a spy novel, but this was no ordinary spy it was Howard Hunt, one of President Nixon’s plumbers
Madmen’s shrieks haunted Van Gogh’s last year of life
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Warby still ‘fastest man on water’
FORTY years ago a crowd gathered on the shores of a dam near Tumut to see if a boat built in a suburban back yard could set the world water speed record.
French WWI flying ace immortalised by tennis
MOST people associate the name Roland Garros with tennis. However, the French tennis area was named after a pioneer aviator.
Passion for planes took first man to the moon
SOME people are lifetime achievers but one achiever, Neil Armstrong, had one achievement that eclipsed the others.
Botched Somali military op shook US and world
IT began as a plan to arrest one man, that should have taken an hour, but it ended up a two-day firefight in the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia.
The Seagull takes flight after bumpy first airing
A NEW film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play, The Seagull, opens across Australian theatre screens today.
Anzacs beat Lawrence of Arabia into Damascus
THERE was a great deal of fanfare as the dusty Rolls Royce rumbled toward Damascus. In the car was British officer Lt-Col Colonel Walter Stirling and another British officer, dressed in bedouin robes — Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence.
Work reformist went on to become president of Poland
WHEN a stocky electrician took charge of a strike at his former workplace in August 1980, it became the national Solidarity union movement and would eventually force the puppet Soviet-run Polish government to hold free elections.
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