On this day, Maltese television became the stage for one of the most emblematic episodes of the Nationalist Party’s internal crisis during the final years of the Gonzi administration. A live discussion on Bondiplus , hosted by Lou Bondi, featured PN backbencher Franco Debono at a time when the government’s one-seat parliamentary majority had rendered every dissenting voice politically consequential. The context was already charged. The background was a government operating wi

In January 1941, Malta crossed an invisible threshold. The island had been at war since September 1939, but until then conflict had felt abstract, distant, filtered through radio bulletins and distant fronts. Even after Italy entered the war in June 1940 and air raid sirens sounded for the first time, the sense persisted that Malta was suffering harassment rather than existential threat. The events that became known as the Illustrious Blitz ended that illusion. By late 1940,

Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin was first published on 8 January 1898, as Manuel Dimech used journalism to challenge colonial power, clerical authority, and social injustice.

William Savona, first president of the Labour Party, shaped Malta’s early workers’ movement, linking military service, social reform, & labour politics in the 1920s.

Tessie Camilleri was Malta’s first female university graduate. Born in 1901, her life marks a turning point in women’s access to higher education in Malta.

On 5 January 1902, a Maltese courtroom became the unlikely stage for a constitutional confrontation between colonial authority and cultural nationalism. However one would expect that the debucle would be over a legislation or taxation. No, this debate was about a song. More precisely, a newly composed Innu Malti that the British administration feared would turn a night at the theatre into a political act.

On 4 January 1927, a trademark linked to The Coca-Cola Company was registered in Malta. The mark, later catalogued as TM1915, covered mineral water, aerated water, soft drinks, and ginger beer. Nearly a century later, it remains valid.

Ġużepp Cauchi, known in Għarb as Ta’ Neriku, was born on 3 January 1910. He would later become one of the lesser-known Gozitan names tied to the Second World War, not through the bombing of Malta itself, but through a grim chain of events that took him from Gozo to Australia, then to Greece, and finally to a Nazi camp outside Berlin. Cauchi left Gozo as a teenager, emigrating to Australia in 1926, part of a broader pattern of Maltese and Gozitan migration in search of work a