One of the most magnificent Baroque palaces in history – the palace of Russian Empress Catherine II. Great near St. Petersburg was completed on July 30, 1756. This...
Caliph Al Mansur founded Baghdad as the new capital of his state on July 30, 762. Al Mansur ruled the Abbasid Caliphate, a vast state that stretched from North Africa to...
Schwarzenegger has never lost his strong Austrian accent by which, apart from his massive body structure, he is particularly recognizable. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Ameri...
His patron was the Florentine Medici family. Italian painter, builder and art writer Giorgio Vasari was born on July 30, 1511 in Arezzo. He acquired a humanistic educatio...
Residents there during the British-French condominium period could choose between prosecution under French and British law. On July 30, 1980, independence was granted to...
The chief founder of the new Grand Lodge was Henry Price, who received the authority to establish it from the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England himself, Lord Mon...
On July 30, the American city of Baltimore was officially founded. Interestingly, it was named after the Catholic Lord Baltimore, the owner of the Maryland colony there (...
Alfred was the younger son of Britain’s Queen Victoria, who proclaimed him Duke of Edinburgh. Much later, only in the 50th year of his life, he became Alfred and th...