Cities
The code name for a historic 1945 meeting at this Ukrainian city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea.
Yalta
Austrian archduke, by Gavrilo Princip in 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Although he died before he could complete his voyage, this explorer is credited as being the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Ferdinand Magellan
Although beginning as a quiet, formal complaint against the Catholic Church, the movement that followed would ultimately give rise to several wars and forever change the face of Europe.
The Protestant Reformation
In 1960, this new Communist leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, at 4 hours and 29 minutes, during which he attacked U.S. Cold War policy.
Fidel Castro
George Vancouver was the first European to visit the site of this city, the largest named after a Native American in the United States.
Seattle
Roman dictator, by Roman Senators in 44 BC.
Julius Caesar
This disease, which played a major role in the Spanish conquest of the Americas, was the first and so far only disease to be completely eradicated by humans.
Smallpox
This grassroots social movement, focused on civil rights and anti-racism, famously occupied Alcatraz Island in 1971 and Wounded Knee in 1973.
The American Indian Movement (AIM)
This practice, often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, was used to conserve fuel both by Germany during World War I and by the U.S. in 1974. The U.S. has used it each year ever since.
Daylight savings time
In what is sometimes called the "Babylonian captivity of the Papacy," this French city was home to seven Antipopes in the 1300s.
Avignon
American Muslim minister and civil rights activist, by Thomas Hagan and others in 1965.
Malcolm X
This West Asian country was the first to gain independence from the British Empire after World War II, one year before the partition of India.
Jordan
Started by a Tunisian fruit vendor and soon spreading to other nations, this series of protests in Africa and the Middle East fought for regime change, human and civil rights, and economic reform.
The Arab Spring
In 1985, the Mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this ancient conflict after more than 2,000 years.
This major South American city was founded, abandoned, then founded again. It was originally believed to have gotten its name from a quote by a Spanish explorer, but was actually named after the Virgin Mary.
Buenos Aires
Russian Marxist revolutionary, by Ramón Mercader in 1940.
Leon Trotsky
This was the first multi-page newspaper to be published in British colonial America in 1690, but it was shut down by authorities after only one issue.
Publick Occurrences (Both Forreign and Domestick)
This protest against British taxation sent Mahatma Gandhi on a 23-day, 240-mile journey to the coast of India, during which he denounced British laws taxing its namesake resource.
The Salt March
This was the word that English settlers found carved into the palisade at the "lost colony" of Roanoke, which was discovered to be abandoned in 1590 with no sign of the settlers.
Croatoan
This East African capital is known as "Little Rome" for looking remarkably like an Italian city, owing to the fact that it was once part of an Italian colony until the 1930s.
Asmara
Senator from Louisiana, by Carl Weiss in 1935.
Huey Long
This Chinese dynasty is believed by historians to be the first verified dynasty in ancient China, coming before the Western Zhou dynasty and after the alleged yet unproven Xia dynasty.
Shang (or Yin) Dynasty
In 1962, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) wrote this political manifesto, which gets its name from from the site of the United Auto Workers retreat complex the movement met at.
Port Huron Statement
This Muslim explorer, whose journeys spanned from Morocco to China, travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history.
Ibn Battuta