Cornwell paints ’Portrait’ of Jack the Ripper (USA TODAY)

Monday, December 2 (AP)
... Alexandropol while Communists seize power in Armenian capital Yerevan and proclaim a Soviet republic. 1942 - Nuclear...

Budapest’s Faded Pleasure Palace Regains Splendor (Reuters)
...-- but managed a second lease of life from 1936 to 1942.......

Taiwan Military Called in to Battle Dengue Fever (Reuters)
...Dengue fever broke out in Taiwan island-wide in 1915, 1931, and 1942, when Japan occupied the nation.......

Today in History - Nov. 19 (AP)
...In 1942, during WWII, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the......

Tuesday, November 26 (AP)
... War. 1940 - Half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, are ordered to live within a walled ghetto. 1942 - The film "Casabl...

WW II Internment Camps Summit Held (AP)
... Japanese-Americans who were forced to live and work behind barbed-wire and guard towers between 1942 and 1945 while...