On this day the famous “Six-Day War” ended, in which the Israeli weaponry achieved yet unprecedented success at the expense of the surrounding Arab countries. In just six...
On this day the Nazis committed one of the worst massacres against civilians in central France. It was the time of Allied invasion of Normandy, when the Germans did ever...
On this day in 1863, the French conquered Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It was the time of the French intervention in Mexico, during which the forces of Emperor Nap...
On this day the Israeli Air Force undertook an offensive in the heart of Iraq’s territory. They bombed and destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometers south...
On this day the largest military landing operation in the history of warfare began. Around 160,000 Allied soldiers landed on the coast of Normandy in northern France in a...
This day marked the beginning of the Six-Day War. During six days, Israel managed to quadruple its territory and defeat three Arab states – Egypt, Jordan, and Syria...
The rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu After the death of the powerful daimyo (a position similar to a high-ranking noble in Europe) Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598, Japan was governed b...
On this day in 1944, in the midst of World War II, American troops entered Rome and in doing so ended the German occupation of the city. To recall, after Italy withdrew f...