The US State Department asked the USSR for help, so the Soviets sent two icebreakers. A large group of whales trapped in ice in the far north of Alaska was discovered on October 7, 1988. These were gray whales (lat. Eschrichtius robustus) trappe ...

The Auschwitz II camp in Birkenau was the largest in the Auschwitz complex. It was an extermination camp (Vernichtungslager), in which prisoners were killed in gas chambers using Zyklon-B gas. It is estimated that over a million people were kill ...

On October 7, 1776, the wedding of Russian Tsar Paul to German Princess Sophia Maria Dorothea of ​​Württemberg took place. At that time, the Russian Empire was ruled by the famous Empress Catherine II. Velika, to whom Tsarevich Pavao was the son ...

By the end of 1942, Helmut Lent had gained a reputation as the best night fighter pilot in the Third Reich. He was also given the position of squadron commodore. On October 7, 1944, German Colonel Helmut Lent, a highly decorated night pilot of L ...

As a child, Putin lived with his family relatively modestly, in an apartment building in Leningrad located on Baskov Street. They reportedly lived on the fifth floor and the building did not have an elevator. On October 7, 1952, Vladimir Putin w ...