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Featured article Konon Molody The Portland spy ring was an espionage group active in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1961. It comprised five people who obtained classified research documents from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and passed them to the Soviet Union. Two of the group, Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee worked at the AUWE and had access to classified information. They passed this to their handler, Konon Molody (pictured), a KGB agent acting under a Canadian passport in the name Gordon Lonsdale. Lonsdale would pass the documents to Lona and Morris Cohen, American communists living under the names Helen and Peter Kroger; they passed the information to Moscow. The ring was exposed in 1960 after a tip-off from the Polish spy Michael Goleniewski. The information he supplied was enough to identify Houghton. MI5 surveillance uncovered the rest of the group, who were arrested in January 1961 and tried that March. Sentences for the group ranged from 15 to 25 years. (Full article...) Recently featured: Lemurs of Madagascar (book) The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Black Slave's Cry to Heaven Zimmerman Telegram Zimmerman Telegram On February 24, .. 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1803 - Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in the U.S. 1917 - The Zimmermann Telegram was delivered, complicating World War I. 1999 - Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand. Recent days: February 23 - February 22 More events in history... Did you know ...? Solfrid Koanda ... that Solfrid Koanda (pictured) qualified for her first weightlifting competition a few days after starting the sport? ... that the Joint Operations Command was created based on lessons learned from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami? ... that a village in North Sulawesi traces its founding to exiles from the Java War? ... that Continuity by Andre Wee at Hume MRT station presents a stylised cross-sectional view of the historical Former Ford Factory? ... that the first governor of Macau Francisco Mascarenhas took the Fortaleza do Monte as the governor's residence from the Jesuits through a ruse? ... that construction of a Pittsburgh TV station was delayed when it was discovered that abandoned mine shafts ran beneath the planned tower site? ... that American football coach Jorge Munoz served as an assistant to a former player he coached? ... that the birth of Christianity in Minahasa, Indonesia, is celebrated annually on June 12, the day that Johann Friedrich Riedel set foot in Manado? ... that protesters launched a Garbage Offensive on New York City?	In the news Port of Shahid Rajaee An explosion and fire (pictured) at the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Iran, kills at least 70 people and injures more than 1,200 others. At least 11 people are killed in a car-ramming attack at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada. Militants attack a group of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 26 people. Pope Francis dies at the age of 88. Ongoing: Gaza war M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Puan Noor Aishah Alexis Herman Hajji Alejandro Peter von Matt Zurab Tsereteli Virginia Giuffre Holidays {{Holidays}} Obituaries Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died suddenly at a hotel in Rimini, Italy on February 14. Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion on February 13. Former leader of the Canadian liberal party, Claude Ryan, died from stomach cancer on February 9 at age 79. More recent deaths...
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