On this day in 1649, the Parliament of England declared England to be a Commonwealth. Interestingly, the word Commonwealth is actually translation of the Latin phrase “re...
On this day in 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of the French (French: Empereur des Français). It was, of course, a turning point in European history since...
The famous Sykes-Picot agreement was concluded on this day. It divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire into areas of future British and French control (after the...
On this day the tragic events of the 1945 are commemorated, when the British soldiers refused to accept the soldiers of Independent State of Croatia (a German puppet stat...
On this day, in 1895, the wealthy American banker and politician, Prescott Bush, whose son and grandson became U.S. presidents, was born. Prescott Bush was the father of...
On this day in 1987, the Soviets launched a spacecraft similar to those in science fiction novels. It was the Soviet response to the “Star Wars” project launc...
On this day in 1970, the U.S. President Richard Nixon announced the appointment of the first female generals in the U.S. Army. They were Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth Pasch...