On this day in 1670, a secret pact in Dover was made according to which Catholic faith should return to Britain. As it is well known, England split from Rome and Catholic...
On this day, in 1962, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann was executed in Israel. His arrest in Argentina and his covert transfer to Israel for trial was an event of internatio...
A lot of people know that the Turks committed a terrible genocide against the Armenians. It was one of the bloodiest crimes in recent history, and people responsible for...
On this day in 1990, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). At that time...
The bloody coup occurred in Serbia on this day in 1903 (according to the Julian calendar, which was used there at the time). The Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović and Que...
August Eigruber was born in Steyr, Upper Austria. The young Hitler had also lived in Steyr when he attended school. It is interesting to note that the Austrian province o...
This day marked the last imperial coronation in Russian history. Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, was crowned on this day in 1896. He and his family were killed b...
Christian Wirth held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer, and participated in Nazi projects – the Aktion T4 program and Operation Reinhard (German: Aktion Reinhard). They inc...