Bay of Pigs: President Kennedy and the Cold War. Many Cubans welcomed Fidel Castroâs 1959 overthrow of the dictatorial President Fulgencio Batista, yet the new order on the island just about 100 miles from the United States made American officials nervous.
Anno Domini inscription at a cathedral in Carinthia, Austria. The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means in the year of the Lord, but is often translated as in the year of our Lord.
On the morning of June 6, 1944, Allied forces staged an enormous assault on German positions on the beaches of Normandy, France. The invasion is often known by the famous nickname âD-Day,â yet few people know the origin of the term or what, if anything, the âDâ stood for. According to the U.S. military, âD-Dayâ was an Army designation used to indicate the start date for specific field operations. In this case, the âDâ in D-Day doesnât actually stand for anythingâitâs merely an alliterative placeholder used to designate a particular day on the calendar. The military also employed the term âH-Hourâ to refer to the time on D-Day when the action would begin.