In an open letter, President Museveni expressed his dissatisfaction with the ruling, arguing that civilians who illegally arm themselves should fall under military jurisdiction.As Parliament looks ...
Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck after falling ...
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 ...
More than a century later, on April 14, 1979, the rice riot occurred, just when the country's economy was growing at an astronomical level from an annual rate of about two percent in 1961 to its ...
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first woman Prime Minister creating a world record. She began her parliamentary career with a seat in the Senate entering the House of Representatives later.