The famous poet Guillaume Apollinaire was initially suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa, who once said that the entire Louvre should be burned. The most famous theft of w...
Benigno Aquino, as a political opponent of Marcos, was in exile in the US for 3 years. August 21 is a national holiday in the Philippines in mourning for the assassinatio...
American scientist Harry K. Daghlian was fatally irradiated while handling the nucleus of a nuclear bomb on August 21, 1945. It was the first accident of its kind in worl...
On August 21, 1876, the Vienna bridge Kronprinz-Rudolf-Brücke was opened, which today bears the name Reichsbrücke. It was originally named after Crown Prince Rudolf, the...
James FitzJames held the highest aristocratic titles in as many as three countries – England, France and Spain. James FitzJames, whose descendants managed to accumu...
Hawaii is today the only U.S. state that consists entirely of islands. Although Hawaii is called an American state, it is not located on the American continent, but in Oc...
With its area of 64,589 square kilometers, Latvia is today slightly larger than the Republic of Croatia, but has a much smaller population (only about 2,000,000). The B...
The war situation at the time of Churchill’s speech of 20 August 1940 seemed desperate as the German air force was attacking Great Britain. On August 20, 1940, Brit...