In the 1950s, the US began test-flying a new spy plane, the Lockheed U-2. A Sky HISTORY series explores how this led to UFO ...

From a chicken that lived for two years without its head to an American project to blow up the moon, here are 10 unbelievable facts from history. Back in 1945, a chicken destined for the chop ...

The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high St. Stephen's Tower, rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time on this day in ...

From D-Day to the birth of Facebook, discover some of the major anniversaries the world will be marking in 2024. The first day of January 1999 saw the euro come into existence as 11 nations adopted ...

Nikola Tesla’s visionary wireless experiments weren’t just about transmitting power—they were driven by his belief that he could bridge Earth and the cosmos. From his Colorado Springs magnifying ...

This was a Dad's Army of silent killers and saboteurs. Alongside an accountant, a bank manager, and a salesman, bricklayer Stanley Hayes was a member of a secret auxiliary unit trained in covert ...

Join the team at Sky HISTORY as we share the strangest sports in Britain, from cheese-rolling and knob-throwing to bog ...

Historian Tony McMahon and alternative history theorist Andrew Collins debate the biggest mysteries surrounding Ancient Egypt. Join Bradley Walsh on an epic journey to Egypt as he dives deep into the ...

As Sky HISTORY series Discovered By Disaster shows, destructive weather can lead to major archaeological finds. Here are four times it actually ...

Meet TikTok star Katie Kennedy as she brings the past to life in History Crush, a fresh, funny take on love, scandal and ...

Josef Mengele is, without a doubt, one of the most notorious figures of the Holocaust. Known colloquially as the Angel of Death, Mengele contributed to sending some 400,000 people to their death at ...

One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...