On this day in 1666, the worst blazes of the Great Fire of London engulfed the City, creating, in the words of Samuel Pepys, “the saddest sight of desolation” he ever saw. Eliot Wilson tells us more ...

It has been 359 years since the Great Fire ravaged London - changing the shape of the city and its history. Today, we’re taking a step back in time to revisit one of the most significant events in ...

Sept. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1666, the Great Fire of London began. It destroyed 13,000 houses in four days. In 1935, a hurricane hit the Florida Keys, killing more than 350 people. In ...

"The archaeological excavations at 1 Poultry included burials associated with the medieval church of St Benet Sherehog, and a post-Great Fire burial ground on the same location, which served the ...

Great Barrington’s quiet monument to the 1774 court closure marks what some call the first open resistance to British rule — but the event was far more radical than the ...

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2025 with 120 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and ...

The young Connecticut schoolmaster's intelligence-gathering mission was ill-fated from the start. But after he was hanged by ...

Baltimore — When Jeanette Coury and her husband shopped for a car in late May, it took only about a week to search online, test drive a 2018 Nissan Rogue and drive away the next day with a “really ...

Long established as one of London’s most desirable postcodes, locals will tell you Notting Hill is home to some of the ...

A week-long series of free events is set to commemorate the 350th anniversary of a fire that devastated a town centre. In 1675, the Great Fire of Northampton destroyed 700 of 850 buildings and claimed ...