On July 31, 1498, Christopher Columbus first reached the island of Trinidad, one of the largest and southernmost of the Caribbean islands. The word Trinidad in Spanish me...
The Basque organization fighting for national independence, ETA, was founded on 31 May 1959. The abbreviation ETA means the term Euskadi ta Askatasuna, which in the Basqu...
On July 31, 1971, humans rode across the moon for the first time in history. This was done by the Apollo 15 crew in a vehicle called the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Apoll...
The famous work which is the legacy of St. Ignatius are his famous Spiritual Exercises, which are used today as a means of meditation even by non-Catholics. On July 31, 1...
Maximilian married in the Spanish city of Valladolid his close cousin Maria of Habsburg, sister of King Philip II of Spain. On July 31, 1527, Maximilian II was born. Habs...
Rum began to be given in 1655, after the British occupied Jamaica, an island rich in sugar cane from which rum is produced. After the abolition of free rum giving, some s...
On this day in 1777, Marquis de La Fayette, a French nobleman, became a U.S. general in the War of Independence. The rank of general was awarded to him by the American Co...
On this day in 1658, Aurangzeb became the great mogul and the ruler of the mightiest empire in India. At one time, he was quite possibly the richest and most powerful rul...