Particularly important to Koldewei's excavation at Babylon were Ishtar's door, decorated with glazed bricks. On February 4, 1925, Robert Johann Koldewey, a German archaeologist who celebrated the excavation of the remains of Babylon, died. He was bor...
He was one of the few Stalin associates who survived the Great Purge era. Clement Efremovich Vorosilov, one of the first five marshals of the Soviet Union, was born on February 4, 1881. Namely, at the first appointment of Soviet marshals, on November...
She met Juan Perón only after the death of his famous wife, Eve Perón, known as Evita (she was about 12 years old). She married him in 1961, when she was 30 and he was 66 years old. On February 4, 1931, María Estela Martínez Cartas, later known as Is...
The conference of the Big Three - war leaders of the USSR, US and UK, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, began on February 4, 1945 in Yalta, the Crimea Peninsula. The Yalta Conference (also called Crimea) lasted a week, with three statesmen, with the a...
The American Southern State known from the Civil War was founded on February 4, 1861. It was called the Confederate States, or more specifically the Confederate States of America. It was founded by US states that have left the US in recent months. Sp...
The name Yugoslavia was introduced by King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic in October 1929. On February 4, 2003, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro. This finally removed the name Yugoslavia from the list of worl...
During the English Civil War (1641 – 1651), the Parliamentarians won a string of victories against the Royalists, pushing them farther and farther away from London. Eventually, the Royalist fleet was forced to retreat to the remote Isles of Scilly, a...
She was kidnapped by a left-wing urban guerrilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), which used the symbol of a seven-headed cobra. On this day in the town of Berkeley in California, Patricia Hearst was kidnapped. The wealthy heiress o...
At the time, the word “facebook”, was used in the U.S. to represent a book with pictures and information about students which was published by university bodies, usually at the beginning of the school year, to ease the introductions of their students...
The charity Cancer Research UK has around 500 million GBP (some 800 million U.S. dollars) at its disposal every year. These funds are acquired through donations rather than from the state budget. This day in 2002 marked the founding of the of...
On this day in 1722 Russian emperor Peter the Great introduced a Table of Ranks in his country, according to which civilian and military officials were divided into a new system of grades (ranks). This way he created a system in which state officials...
The reign of the famed Song dynasty in China began on this day in 960. The technological and cultural achievements of that dynasty make it one of the most important in Chinese history, and it has left an indelible trail in the whole world. Namely, it...
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) have been killed together today in a severe plane crash in snowy Iowa. On February 3, 1959, the worst accident in rock and roll history occurred when three famous musicians died in the...
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo advocates peacefully resolving the problems of Indonesian occupation of East Timor. On February 3, 1948, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, a Roman Catholic bishop who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, was born. He was bo...
She has received numerous awards for her achievements, including the famous Harmon Trophy. On February 3, 1995, American Eileen Collins became the first woman to ever operate the Space Shuttle. In doing so, she also became the first American in histo...
An American plane from the Aviano base, with its wing, gripped and severed the cable of a ski lift that climbed to the top of Cermis Mountain in the Dolomites. On February 3, 1998, an unusual accident with tragic consequences occurred at the Italian...
He was Catholic and at one time even served the archbishop of Mainz, his hometown. The famous Johannes Gutenberg, an extremely important figure in the development of printing technique in Europe, died on 3 February 1468. Gutenberg was born in Mainz,...
On February 3, 1897, the Greek-Turkish War begin. The conflict arose over Crete's status. Namely, although Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire as early as 1832, Crete, although it had a majority Greek population, remained part of the E...
It serves as a command center in the event that a command on earth is destroyed by an atomic impact. On March 3, 1961, the United States Air Force (USAF) launched Operation Looking Glass. It is a code name for the fact that from then until today, the...
Mehmed II was the great-grandfather of Suleiman the Magnificent in a direct male line. One of the most famous sultans in history, next to the Suleiman the Magnificent, Mehmed II the Conqueror became the Ottoman Sultan on this day. In fact, Mehmed II...
The bombs fell even on the Reich Chancellery (in its back yard was the famous Führerbuker in which Hitler and his associates had taken shelter). On this day during World War II, the Allies executed one of the strongest assaults on the capital of Hitl...
The photos which Luna 9 took on the Lunar surface were sent to Earth through a radio transmitter. These were the first photos from the surface of an extraterrestrial body that people could touch and see. The first soft landing on an extraterre...
On this day in 1488 the first European ship from the Age of Discovery landed at the part of Africa just behind the Cape of Good Hope. It was truly a historical undertaking since it was the first time a European expedition sailed around the southernmo...
This day in 1820 marked the death of Vietnamese emperor Gia Long, one of the most powerful rules in the entire history of Vietnam. Namely, in his time the Vietnamese Empire reached a yet-unseen territorial extent. It covered the areas of the current...
At the time when Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to invade the Russian Empire, it was so vast that it founded colonies in California and on Hawaii. On this day the Russian empire founded a colony in California. At that time the whole of Alaska belon...
Spanish colonizers named today’s capital of Argentina after the Sardinian shrine “Santa María del Buen Aire”. What did the Spaniards have to do with a shrine located on an Italian island. On this day, the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, was found...
German emperor Wilhelm II helped place Victoria's body into the coffin. As a widow, Queen Victoria wore black clothes for almost the last 40 years of her life. The funeral of Queen Victoria, the longest-reigning queen in the history of the UK,...
Pope Benedict XIII was born on this day under the name Pietro Francesco Orsini. The process of his canonization has been started, and he currently bears the title of Servant of God (Latin: Servus Dei). He served as pope from 1724 until 1730, and was...
On this day in 1260 the Mongols killed a group of 49 Dominican monks in the Polish city of Sandomierz. This took place during the second Mongol invasion of Poland, which followed 19 years after the first (1240/1241). The second Mongol invasion was bl...
U.S. troops captured this colossal 274.4 mm railroad gun from the Germans near Rentwertshausen in Thuringia, Germany on 10 April 1945. The 30-meter long barrel easily accommodates the 22 soldiers proudly standing on top of it. This gun and others lik...
