The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals executed in Tokyo on the same day in 1948 were scattered over the Pacific Ocean, according to declassified U.S ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

In 1947, the transistor was invented, leading to a revolution in communications and electronics. In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo ...