The Korean War cost the lives of nearly five million people, and completely devastated whole swaths of Korea. In the end, however, the peninsula remained divided at the 38th parallel.
The International Office of RWTH Aachen University welcomes all new international students starting in winter term 2022/23 with a introduction and support program to ensure the best start possible at RWTH and in Aachen. The Welcome Week program will take place from...
On August 3, 2014, fighters of the jihadist terrorist militia Islamic State attacked the main settlement area of the Yazidis around the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iraqi-Kurdistan. This day represents the prelude to the most atrocious war crimes and an incipient...
For a long time, the "Humboldt House" in Aachen was named after the revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara; until the 1990s it was called Che House.
The assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 was the most significant attempted overthrow of the military resistance during the Nazi era.
Heute vor 37 Jahren fand das bis dahin größte Rock Konzert der Geschichte statt. Insgesamt wurden dabei etwa 150 Millionen Pfund an Spenden für die Hungersnot in Äthiopien gesammelt. Die Verteilung der Spenden und die Organisation des Auftrittes wurden häufig kritisiert.