On this day in 1934 Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz was for the first time listed by the nickname “Tito” in the minutes of the Central Committee meeting of the Commu...
On this day in 1990 the Magellan space probe entered into orbit around the planet Venus. It is interesting that the Magellan probe was the first interplanetary probe in h...
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...
This day in 1965 marked what was probably the only case in history when a country became independent against the will of its people. Namely, on that day the Malay parlia...
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 Yugoslav authorities forced an American C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft to land some 12 km from Kranj in Slovenia. That plane had allegedly entered Yugoslav...
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...