History

It started with a cloud of gas in the dead of night, silently submerging the city in a toxic soup. By morning on December 3, 1984, an Indian city awoke to a nightmare.

More than three decades since his death in a rooftop shootout with police, the legacy of cocaine king Pablo Escobar continues to affect Colombia.

A  Victorian tourist has been "blown away" after discovering a connection with a volunteer at the Hobart Penitentiary, with the volunteer noting people seem more open to discussing their convict histories.

Australia's Ashes domination in Brisbane is almost total, with England winless at the Gabba since 1986. It wasn't always like this though, with the first visit to Brisbane resulting in the heaviest defeat in cricket history.

From reality TV and heist movie remakes to man's last step on the Moon — how well do you know this week in history?

A former truck driver has sold his 200-piece collection of garage-themed memorabilia to a regional local government in hopes it will drive tourism to the area.

It's been 185 years this month since Australia's first Mormon arrived in Adelaide. He immediately regretted the move.

Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon can trace their relationship back five years, but the historic nature of their secretly planned wedding at The Lodge runs far deeper.

The uniforms and pledge may have had a revamp, but the learning, friendships and camping trips at Girl Guides are just as relevant for a new generation more than a century after the organisation first began. 

The first fully Australian-made car rolled off the Holden production line in Melbourne on this day in 1948. The man who dreamt it up wasn't there to see it unveiled.

A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg is heading to auction with a price estimate of more than $40 million.

An 86-year-old farmer claims this year's Dairy Science Award for inventing spreadable butter, by mixing oils with cultured cream at a time when it was illegal.

The State Library of WA is running an appeal to save a set of seaweed scrapbooks made nearly 100 years ago by a renowned Kalgoorlie-born naturalist.

Harvey Milk had been elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 — a little over a year later, he would be dead. 

On November 26, 1948, the first Polaroid camera was released commercially, changing photography forever.  

Marilyn Warren made history when she was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, though she has never thought of herself as a trailblazer.

The 18-carat gold Jules Jurgensen pocket watch belonged to Isidor Straus, the co-founder of the Macy's department store.

The opening of a new supermarket franchise in one of Australia's biggest inland cities has revived memories from the past when Kalgoorlie-Boulder was home to at least 35 market gardens, run mostly by European migrant families. 

CIA assassination plots, the Eureka flag and the Sex Pistols — how well do you know this week in history?

David Boon is one of Australia's greatest and most-beloved Test cricketers. His debut, at the Gabba on November 23, 1984 was not the most auspicious of starts, though.