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The Rajiv–Longowal Accord was an accord signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Akali leader, Harchand Singh Longowal, on 24 July 1985. The government accepted the demands of Shiromani Akali Dal, which, in turn, agreed to withdraw its…

The attack on Lt Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar, 78, in September last year brought one of the most controversial events in recent Indian history back into the headlines.

American Federation for the Physically Handicapped's President Paul Strachan outlines his proposals for an inter-departmental committee on selective job placement of the handicapped, and for a one-year pilot program in Pennsylvania leading to a…

Invasion Road. U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Marines build a temporary causeway as the invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, gets underway.

A photograph of Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, who played a crucial role in the decryption of the Japanese encryption machine codenamed "Purple" by the United States government.

A photograph of Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the woman who broke the Japanese M-1 cipher machine.

"To increase understanding of the process of military experimentation, this work examines some of these experiments; today, the technologies need no introduction, and the Second World War provides hindsight through which the experiments and their…

African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama