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 during the first year of World War I, Imperial German submarines set sail from their bases, preparing to attack British shipping. This occurred only two days...
The Russian Empire and Mexico had established diplomatic relations back in 1890, but the revolutions which broke out in the countries in the second decade of the 20th cen...
On this day in 1704 British forces captured Gibraltar, one of the most important strategic points in the entire world. Gibraltar had been in Spanish hands for over 240 ye...
On this day in 1944, the largest merchant ship convoy in World War II crossed the Atlantic Ocean and entered British waters. The convoy bore the designation HX-300 becaus...
One of the most important and most researched battles in human history took place on this day in 216 BC. An army of 50,000 Carthaginians under the famed general Hannibal...
On this day in 1798, a strange war between the United States and revolutionary France broke out. Specifically, although the United States were a young nation at that time...
On this day in 1944, the Japanese performed the largest banzai charge during World War II. It took place during the Battle of Saipan, in the Mariana Islands. Saipan is lo...