On 26 September 1960, Fidel Castro of Cuba remained on the rostrum for 269 minutes, making his address the longest timed speech in General Assembly history. Delivered just one year after the Cuban ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...

Ghana (then the Gold Coast) had become independent in 1957. Nigeria would become independent later in 1960. Britain could either hold on to its past glories by force, as France was failing to do ...