Just after 2pm on Tuesday, January 30, 1649, King Charles I was beheaded on a temporary scaffold built in front of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London. Stood next to the king’s lifeless body was ...

Although Whitehall is now known for being the home of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, 10 Downing Street, and countless ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Thursday what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

A ceremony has taken place in Bath to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and 80 years since the liberation of the largest Nazi ...

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...

Holocaust survivors and their supporters marked the 80th recognition of Soviet Union soldiers liberating Auschwitz on Monday.

The monarch will join other heads of state at the camp, a short drive from Krakow, to remember all those who met their deaths ...

This is the 52nd time that The King's Army commemorate the execution of Charles I. 30 January marks a grim date in the annals of London history. On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St ...

The monarch will join other heads of state at the camp, a short drive from Krakow, to remember all those who met their deaths ...

Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...

Today in History for Jan. 19: ...