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on September 30, 2020 at 7:41 am

He continued: Mohamed El-Shennawy is the best goalkeeper in Egypt now, and I consider them all my sisters, the image of the shoe in the touch was ...

on September 30, 2020 at 1:41 am

He continued, “In Egypt, there are no matters that remain in the dark. One day the masses will know the financial return about my transfer to Pyramids, ...

on September 29, 2020 at 10:41 pm

John Antwi capped off his Ghana Black Stars call-up with a match-winning strike for Pyramids FC against Al-Ittihad Al-Sakandary in the Egyptian ...

on September 29, 2020 at 10:30 pm

Eagerness Tunisian star Ali MaaloulOn his courtship with the fans of the Red Castle, after revealing the Pyramids' offer to move to him for $ 2 million, ...

on September 29, 2020 at 10:30 pm

Pyramids narrowly surpassed Al-Ittihad of Alexandria in the 30th round match in the Egyptian League and succeeded in winning with a clean goal. The victory raised the balance of Pyramids to 57 […]

on September 29, 2020 at 10:30 pm

Pyramids will play its next match against Egypt for the clearing on Saturday evening, while Al Ittihad faces the Vanguard of the Army on Sunday.

on September 29, 2020 at 10:30 pm

Pyramids narrowly surpassed Al-Ittihad of Alexandria in the 30th round match in the Egyptian League and succeeded in winning with a clean goal.

on September 29, 2020 at 10:07 pm

... netted the only goal on Tuesday night to hand his Pyramids FC side a narrow 1-0 win against Al-Ittihad Alexandria in the Egyptian Premier League.

by Farrell Evans on September 29, 2020 at 8:55 pm

In September 1868, a dispute over a column published in an Opelousas, Louisiana partisan newspaper provoked one of the bloodiest incidents of racial violence in the Reconstruction era. The attackers' […]

on September 29, 2020 at 8:15 pm

The Arab Contractors Club defeated its guest Club Egypt 6-0 in the 30th ... hit the ball and hit the feet of the Egyptian club players and settled in the net. ... in fourth place, two points behind […]

on September 29, 2020 at 6:19 pm

Jaber participated in 67 matches for the Pyramids in the Egyptian Premier League, scoring a goal and sending 4 assists. These were the details of the ...

on September 29, 2020 at 3:00 pm

Egypt- Sound and Light Company launches global bid to develop Giza Pyramids exhibition area. Date. 9/29/2020 3:17:33 PM.

by Patrick J. Kiger on September 29, 2020 at 2:25 pm

Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez […]

on September 29, 2020 at 10:30 am

The ancient pyramids of Egypt have long been a source of wonder and fascination to tourists and archaeologists alike. One of the most compelling ...

on September 29, 2020 at 8:26 am

... about Egyptian scholars and archeologists trying to copyright the pyramids and ... I agree that ancient Egyptian cultural artefacts are part of Egypt's civilization ... The title is: Movies and […]

on September 29, 2020 at 5:04 am

At 10:56 p.m. EDT Neil Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: "That's […]

on September 28, 2020 at 9:26 pm

History >> Ancient Egypt The Ancient Egyptian pyramids are some of the most impressive structures built by humans in ancient times. Many of the pyramids still survive today for us to see and […]

by Karen Juanita Carrillo on September 28, 2020 at 3:21 pm

The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant economy that had weakened under the grip of a U.S. trade embargo and by Cuban […]

on September 27, 2020 at 9:34 pm

The history behind building pyramids was of hard work, resilience, and efforts. But the Pyramids did not get right, the first time. The pyramids in the desert often collapsed while they were being […]

on September 27, 2020 at 8:15 pm

A pyramid is a structure or monument, usually with a quadrilateral base, which rises to a triangular point. In the popular imagination, pyramids are the three lonely structures on the Giza plateau at […]

on September 27, 2020 at 8:15 pm

The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt.As of November 2008, sources cite either 118 or 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids. Most were built […]

on September 27, 2020 at 7:04 pm

A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.This includes both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, […]

on September 27, 2020 at 1:06 pm

Pyramid of the Sun . The most famous single pyramid in Latin America is the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán, Mexico.The Teotihuacán was one of the most dominant societies in […]

on September 27, 2020 at 12:09 pm

The Egyptian pyramids are some of the most incredible man-made structures in history. More than 4,000 years after their construction, the pyramids still stand as some of the most important and ...

on September 27, 2020 at 11:19 am

The Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969 was one of the most astonishing achievements in human history. That day, an estimated 530 million TV viewers watched U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and ...

on September 27, 2020 at 6:11 am

Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations.The […]

on September 27, 2020 at 12:20 am

The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned ...

on September 26, 2020 at 6:58 pm

Pharaoh Khufu began the first Giza pyramid project, circa 2550 B.C. His Great Pyramid is the largest in Giza and towers some 481 feet (147 meters) above the plateau.

on September 26, 2020 at 6:58 pm

Egyptian Pyramids: History and Interesting Facts Egyptian pyramids were made around the time when Egypt was a wealthy country with a fast rate of acquisition of knowledge. Although some of the oldest […]

on September 26, 2020 at 6:15 pm

Astronaut Neil Armstrong made history on July 20, 1969, when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. Watch the historic Apollo 11 moments as the world witnessed them 50 years ago.

on September 26, 2020 at 10:58 am

The ancient pyramids of Egypt are some of the oldest and most magnificent monuments of antiquity. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one left standing.

on September 26, 2020 at 12:07 am

The Eagle made a risky landing in a shallow moon crater named the Sea of Tranquility. (Most people watching the landing on TV didn’t know that the Eagle had only 20 seconds of landing fuel left […]

by Jessica Pearce Rotondi on September 24, 2020 at 3:57 pm

Voting by mail can trace its roots to soldiers voting far from home during the Civil War and World War II. By the late 1800s, some states were extending absentee ballots to civilian voters under […]

by Lesley Kennedy on September 24, 2020 at 11:06 am

Five hundred thirty-seven votes. That's all that separated Democrat Al Gore and his Republican challenger George W. Bush when, on November 26, 2000, three weeks after Election Day, the state of […]

by Lesley Kennedy on September 23, 2020 at 3:59 pm

Since 1852, 35 individuals have received the high honor of lying in state: 12 presidents, two vice presidents, plus members of Congress, unknown soldiers, military heroes, a city planner, and U.S. […]

by Dave Roos on September 23, 2020 at 12:53 pm

Only since 1869 have there consistently been nine justices appointed to the Supreme Court. Before that, Congress routinely changed the number of justices to achieve its own partisan political goals, […]

by Jessica Pearce Rotondi on September 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm

Throughout history, fires have led to drastic changes in population patterns, infrastructure, and the course of world events. Here are seven fires that changed history. 1. The Burning of the Great […]

by Lesley Kennedy on September 22, 2020 at 1:20 pm

The Hatch Act was signed into law in 1939 to keep federal employees from engaging in political activities while they’re on the job. It was also designed to ensure federal employees don’t […]

by Dave Roos on September 21, 2020 at 7:18 pm

When the United States finally decided to enter World War I in 1917, there was opposition at home by those who wanted America to remain neutral in the European conflict and groups who actively […]

by Erin Blakemore on September 19, 2020 at 12:18 am

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a groundbreaking attorney, a lifelong advocate for gender equality, and a civil servant who served as a justice on the Supreme Court for 27 years, died September 18, […]

by Karen Juanita Carrillo on September 18, 2020 at 1:36 pm

In the 1960s, a radicalized Mexican-American movement began pushing for a new identification. The Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento, advocated social and political empowerment through a chicanismo […]

by Dave Roos on September 18, 2020 at 12:59 pm

When naturalists like John Muir first entered the Yosemite Valley of California in the 19th century, they marveled at the beauty of what they believed to be a pristine wilderness untouched by human […]

by Sarah Pruitt on September 17, 2020 at 1:00 pm

In the early morning hours of March 4, 1801, John Adams, the second president of the United States, quietly left Washington, D.C. under cover of darkness. He would not attend the inauguration […]

by Sarah Pruitt on September 16, 2020 at 8:56 pm

The U.S. Constitution, written in 1787 and ratified by nine of the original 13 states a year later, is the world’s longest-surviving written constitution. But that doesn’t mean it has […]

by History.com Editors on September 16, 2020 at 2:57 pm

On November 8, 1994, 59 percent of California voters approve Proposition 187, banning undocumented immigrants from using the state’s major public services. Despite its wide margin of victory, […]

by Lakshmi Gandhi on September 16, 2020 at 2:00 pm

When it comes to the fight for workers’ rights in the United States, Latino Americans have been critical players since the early 1900s. Their organizing and agitating have led to improved […]

by Becky Little on September 15, 2020 at 5:35 pm

Puns, rhymes and catchy phrases do remarkably well in United States presidential campaigns, even if they seem a little cheesy. After succeeding Warren G. Harding when he died in office, Calvin […]

by History.com Editors on September 14, 2020 at 7:50 pm

The American Hispanic/Latinx history is a rich, diverse and long one, with immigrants, refugees and Spanish-speaking or indigenous people living in the United States since long before the nation was […]

by Yara Simón on September 14, 2020 at 6:04 pm

The terms Latino, Hispanic and Latinx are often used interchangeably to describe a group that makes up about 18 percent of the U.S. population. While it’s now common to use umbrella terms to […]

by History.com Editors on September 11, 2020 at 6:55 pm

Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual celebration of the history and culture of the U.S. Latinx and Hispanic communities. The event, which spans from September 15 to October 15, commemorates how those […]

by Christopher Klein on September 10, 2020 at 2:40 pm

When it came to waging war at sea during the American Revolution, the mighty British Navy had a vast advantage over its small and inexperienced colonial counterpart. But while the Continental fleet […]

by Stephen Wood on September 9, 2020 at 1:21 pm

At dawn on June 14, 1846, a ragtag group of about 30 gun-toting Americans entered Sonoma, a small town in the Mexican territory of Alta California. Prepared to take the town by force, they instead […]

by Suzanne McGee on September 9, 2020 at 12:08 pm

How crucial were the French to helping colonists win the American Revolution? An iconic oil painting of the British surrender at Yorktown, now hanging in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, perfectly captures […]

by Greg Timmons on September 8, 2020 at 6:01 pm

September 11, 2001 was supposed to be a typical day for Lieutenant Heather Penney of the District of Columbia Air National Guard. As Penney recalled in a 2016 interview with HISTORY, that morning she […]

by Patrick J. Kiger on September 8, 2020 at 4:19 pm

Thanks in part to the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a small force of Spartan soldiers stayed behind to fight to the death against a vastly larger Persian army, the warriors of Sparta […]

by Sarah Pruitt on September 8, 2020 at 1:38 pm

It’s impossible to separate the history of the United States from the history of its post office. After all, Benjamin Franklin was appointed the nation’s first postmaster general all the […]

by Adam Janos on September 8, 2020 at 12:21 pm

The coordinated terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 unfolded at nightmarish speed. At 8:46 a.m., the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Sixteen minutes later, a second […]

by Christopher Klein on September 2, 2020 at 10:01 pm

After Private David Lewis collapsed and died during a basic training exercise at New Jersey’s Fort Dix on February 4, 1976, an investigation into the 19-year-old’s premature death […]

by History.com Editors on September 2, 2020 at 8:37 pm

On September 6, 2018 an off-duty Dallas police officer fatally shoots an unarmed Black man in the victim's own apartment.  Returning to her apartment complex in Dallas, Texas, police officer […]

by Becky Little on September 2, 2020 at 2:11 pm

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Colonel Paul “Ted” Anderson noticed that his colleagues at the Pentagon were gathered around a TV. When he walked over, he learned that a […]

by Dave Roos on September 1, 2020 at 3:57 pm

September 11, 2001 is an inflection point—there was life before the terrorist attacks and there is life after them. Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on that clear, sunny morning when two […]

by Dave Roos on August 31, 2020 at 7:40 pm

When David Hollister introduced a seat belt bill in Michigan in the early 1980s that levied a fine for not buckling up, the state representative received hate mail comparing him to Hitler. At the […]

by History.com Editors on August 27, 2020 at 3:30 pm

On August 29, 1970, more than 20,000 Mexican-Americans march through East Los Angeles to protest the Vietnam War. The Chicano Moratorium, as this massive protest was known, was peaceful until […]

by Sarah Pruitt on August 27, 2020 at 1:37 pm

By the time Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana early on the morning of August 29, 2005, the flooding had already begun. At 5 a.m., an hour before the storm struck land, the U.S. […]

by Benjamin Francis-Fallon on August 26, 2020 at 1:55 pm

During his 1960 bid for the White House, John F. Kennedy faced a tight race. Kennedy and his Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, remained neck-and-neck in the polls throughout the campaign season. […]

by Becky Little on August 20, 2020 at 8:41 pm

U.S. presidential history is filled with “firsts.” First president? George Washington. First president to die in office? William Henry Harrison. First president to serve two […]

by Jessica Pearce Rotondi on August 20, 2020 at 5:07 pm

The Vietnam War (1955-1975) was fought between communist North Vietnam, backed by the Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam, supported by the United States. The bloody conflict had its roots in […]

by Sarah Pruitt on August 19, 2020 at 5:28 pm

Hurricane Katrina, the tropical cyclone that struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, was the third-strongest hurricane to hit the United States in its history at the time. With maximum sustained winds […]

by History.com Editors on August 19, 2020 at 2:11 pm

On August 21, 1980, animal rights advocates Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco found People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Rising from humble beginnings, PETA will soon become the world’s […]

by Michelle T. Harris on August 18, 2020 at 2:28 pm

More than a decade before American women gained the right to vote, a 32-year-old woman stepped into the role of governor of Oregon, becoming the first woman to assume a state’s top office. […]

on August 15, 2020 at 6:33 am

The pyramids of Giza were royal tombs built for three different pharaohs. The northernmost and oldest pyramid of the group was built for Khufu (Greek: Cheops), the second king of the 4th dynasty. […]

by Christopher Klein on August 14, 2020 at 2:18 pm

Each year an average of two hurricanes strike the United States, leaving death and destruction in their wakes. According to Eric Jay Dolin, author of A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of […]

by Sarah Pruitt on August 13, 2020 at 9:16 pm

By the time the final battle over ratification of the 19th Amendment went down in Nashville, Tennessee in the summer of 1920, 72 years had passed since the first women’s rights convention in […]

by Becky Little on August 13, 2020 at 7:19 pm

George Washington didn’t have a nominating convention. As the commander of the colonial forces in the American Revolution, he was an easy candidate to select from among the eligible pool of any […]

by Jennet Conant on August 12, 2020 at 10:04 pm

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Germans bombed a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking 17 ships and killing more than 1,000 American and British servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught […]

by Christopher Klein on August 11, 2020 at 3:12 pm

World War II ended six years and one day after Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, sparked the 20th century’s second global conflict. By the time it concluded on the deck […]

by Christopher Klein on August 11, 2020 at 2:49 pm

Theodore Roosevelt, known for his boundless energy and brash, adventurous spirit, possessed one of the biggest personalities of any American president. But, he once said, “It is a quality of […]

by Jessica Pearce Rotondi on August 10, 2020 at 4:58 pm

Humankind is resilient. While global pandemics like the Bubonic Plague and 1918 pandemic wreaked havoc on populations through the centuries, societies honed critical survival strategies. Here are […]

by Patrick J. Kiger on August 10, 2020 at 2:25 pm

During the Revolutionary War, when there wasn’t any internet or telephones to provide instantaneous communication over long distances, the connective tissue that held the American colonies […]

by History.com Editors on August 6, 2020 at 4:45 pm

On August 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson shoots and kills Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, in the street of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Protests and riots ensue in […]

by Becky Little on August 6, 2020 at 3:27 pm

On July 27, 1919, a white man hurled rocks at 17-year-old Eugene Williams, a Black boy who’d drifted into an unofficially “white” section of a Chicago beach. Williams was floating […]

by Sarah Pruitt on August 5, 2020 at 8:35 pm

In the fall of 1918, as the deadly second wave of the influenza pandemic known as the “Spanish flu” swept across the nation, schools in cities around the United States closed in order to […]

by Alexis Clark on August 5, 2020 at 6:42 pm

When the Selective Training and Service Act became the nation’s first peacetime draft law in September 1940, civil rights leaders pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt to allow Black men […]

by Sarah Pruitt on August 5, 2020 at 12:50 pm

As the presidential election year of 1896 began, things were looking rosy for the Republicans. But the emergence of a brash, young politician, William Jennings Bryan, soon turned the tide. […]

by Lakshmi Gandhi on August 4, 2020 at 9:50 pm

When Congress ratified the 19th Amendment on August 18,1920, giving American women the right to vote, it reflected the culmination of generations’ worth of work by resolute suffragists of all […]

by Dave Roos on August 4, 2020 at 5:10 pm

On April 12, 1955, every American newspaper and TV set jubilantly announced that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was a success. Just three years earlier, during the worst polio outbreak in U.S. […]

by Dave Roos on August 3, 2020 at 6:53 pm

On September 18, 1969, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming 338 to 70 to send a constitutional amendment to the Senate that would have dismantled the Electoral College, the […]

by History.com Editors on August 3, 2020 at 5:16 pm

On August 8, 2008, a long-simmering conflict between Russia and Georgia boiled over into a shooting war between the small Caucasian nation and the superpower of which it was once a part. The brief […]

by History.com Editors on August 3, 2020 at 5:09 pm

A mass shooting takes place early in the morning in Dayton, Ohio on August 4, 2019. The killing of nine people and the injuries of 27 was significant in its own right, but this mass shooting was […]

by History.com Editors on July 28, 2020 at 7:27 pm

On August 1, 1943, 177 B-24 bombers take off from an Allied base in Libya, bound for the oil-producing city Ploiești, Romania, nicknamed “Hitler’s gas station.” The daring […]

by History.com Editors on July 20, 2020 at 4:34 pm

President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981—ending discrimination in the military—on July 26, 1948. Truman’s order ended a long-standing practice of segregating Black […]

by History.com Editors on July 20, 2020 at 3:56 pm

On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the most sweeping affirmation of rights for the disabled in American history at the time, into law. As […]

by History.com Editors on July 15, 2020 at 8:43 pm

On July 17, 2014, two New York Police Department officers confront Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African American father of six, for illegally selling cigarettes. Garner dies after losing consciousness […]

by History.com Editors on July 10, 2020 at 4:43 pm

On July 10, 2015, Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia pulls over a 28-year-old Black woman, Sandra Bland, for failing to signal a lane change. After a heated encounter, he arrests her and takes her to […]

by History.com Editors on July 10, 2020 at 2:37 pm

Outraged and saddened after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed a Black teenager in 2012, Oakland, California resident Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July […]

by History.com Editors on July 8, 2020 at 4:13 pm

Niagara Movement members begin meeting on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls. This all-African American group of scholars, lawyers and businessmen came together for three days to create what […]

by History.com Editors on June 30, 2020 at 6:28 pm

On the morning of July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on one of the last legs in their historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Their next […]

by History.com Editors on June 23, 2020 at 7:36 pm

June 26, 2015 marks a major milestone for civil rights in the United States, as the Supreme Court announces its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. By one vote, the court rules that same-sex marriage […]

by History.com Editors on June 22, 2020 at 4:09 pm

On the morning of June 27, 2015, activists posing as joggers signal to one of their comrades that the police have momentarily turned their attention away from the flagpole outside the South Carolina […]

by History.com Editors on June 10, 2020 at 4:20 pm

A dramatic battle in the Tennessee House of Representatives ends with the state ratifying the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution on August 18, 1920. After decades of struggle and […]