Dimitri Tsafendas, a South African citizen of mixed origin, stabbed him in chest and neck. Tsafendas’s father was a Greek sailor, and his mother was an African, so he was...
The Duke of Buccleuch, greatest landowner in the UK, died on this day in 2007. He owned some 110,000 hectares of land throughout Scotland and England. His full name and t...
According to legend, San Marino was founded by Marin, a stonecutter from the island of Rab in the Adriatic (modern Croatia). He left Rab during the time of Emperor Diocle...
The American War of Independence formally ended on this day in 1783. It lasted eight years, four months, two weeks and one day. The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris on...
Communist leader Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of Vietnam on this day in 1945. This occurred soon after the Japanese capitulation at the end of World War II. Name...
Gaddafi was born among the Bedouins in the desert. In his youth, he enrolled in the Libyan military academy, and also attended military schools in the UK, didn’t attain t...
The President of the Republic of Albania, Ahmet Zogu, proclaimed himself King Zogu I of Albania on this day in 1928. Three years earlier, he had been elected the Presiden...
On this day in 1879, Yoshihito, the Japanese emperor who reigned from 1912 to 1926, was born. He was known as the 123rd Emperor of Japan. It is interesting to note that Y...