On this day in 1981, the severed head of Adam Walsh, murdered child of the wealth John Walsh, was found. Adam Walsh is one of the most famous kidnap victims in the histor...
Cardinal Guillaume Dubois, one of the four cardinals of the Catholic Church who served as Chief Ministers of the French king, died on this day in 1723. Cardinal Dubois wa...
On this day in 1902, King Edward VII’s coronation ceremony was held in London. It was the first coronation in the UK in 64 years. The reason for this long pause was the u...
On this day in 378, a Visigoth army under King Fritigern decisive defeated an Eastern Roman army under the personal leadership of Emperor Valens. Previously, in 376, the...
Archduke Joseph August of Austria, a member of the Habsburg-Lothringen dynasty, was born on this day in 1872. He belonged to a branch of that dynasty which held the highe...
On this day the famous South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung, the later Nobel laureate and president, was kidnapped. At that time he was the leader of the opposition agai...
On this day, in 1945, Stalin’s USSR declared war on imperial Japan. Of course, it was already very late in World War II, since the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb...
On this day in 1987 American swimmer Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR. At the time she was 30 years old. Her swim lasted two hours and f...