Tanikaze Kajinosuke became a yokozuna exactly in the year 1789, at the time that the French Revolution began. On this day in 1795 Tanikaze Kajinosuke died. He was the first living man in history of sumo who received the title of yokozuna. Namely, thi...
The Labour Party won only two seats in the parliament at the first elections that they participated in, which is not surprising considering that they allegedly spent only 33 pounds on those elections! On this day the British Labour Party celebrates t...
On this day there was a fire in the building of the German Parliament (Reichstag) in Berlin. Inside the building, the police found one communist – Marinus van der Lubbe – who a known arsonist. Precisely on this day, one of the most fateful events in...
On this day in 1900 11 players from Munich gymnastics club established a football club Bayern. In a few months, they already achieved significant results by entering the semi-finals of the South German championship. When the Nazis came to power in Ge...
On this day the founder of the world’s most famous luggage factory, Louis Vuitton, died. Born in the French countryside, he moved to Paris in search of work. He was employed as an apprentice to a luggage maker. He learned the craft of making suitcase...
His name was Esek Hopkins and he held the rank of commodore. It is interesting that the Americans, in the Revolutionary War, widely used the services of pirates in addition to their Navy ships. On this day the man who was the first commander-in-chief...
The court of Roger II was one of the most splendid and cultured in Europe. It is interesting that Roger’s royal cape had inscriptions in Arabic script, even though he was a Christian. On this day the first man in history who bore the title of King of...
He studied the Bible, and even personally made a voice recording of the entire New Testament, which is over 19 hours long. He also wrote a Christian novel “The Man in White”, about the life of St. Paul, which became a bestseller. On this day the famo...
On this day the inventor of one of the deadliest weapons in history – the machine gun – died. Richard Jordan Gatling invented a weapon that was named after him (the Gatling gun) and that soon became the fear and terror among soldiers around the world...
Napoleon Bonaparte was imprisoned on Elba when the allies defeated him for the first time and deposed him from the throne. Elba was actually quite a mild form of imprisonment. Napoleon was allowed a personal escort of 1,000 people, and he even had t...
The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to domesticate cats, around 2000 BC. Cats were considered sacred animals in Egypt, and associated with certain deities, especially Bastet (Bast). The fact that cats hunted many of the animals that thr...
Frederick I of Hohenzollern – grandfather of the famous military leader Frederick II the Great (rival of the Empress Maria Theresa) – managed to have his title of Duke of Prussia upgraded to the title of king, which meant a major advance in prestige....
The mother of Sultan Ahmed II was born as a Polish Jew. She was allegedly born under the name Eva, but her name was changed after converting to Islam. On this day Sultan Ahmed II was born in a palace in Istanbul. He became the 21st ruler of the Ottom...
Apparently it took three ax strokes by the executioner to complete the beheading of Lord Essex. It was also the last execution ever held in the famous Tower of London. On this day one of the most famous ax executions in the history took place. Namely...
It is curious that Adolf Hitler received German citizenship only 11 months before becoming chancellor of the same state. Namely, Hitler was not born in Germany, but in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the city of Braunau am Inn. When the Republic of A...
On this day the right-wing Israeli Jew Baruch Goldstein killed 29 and wounded 125 Muslims in a mosque in Jerusalem. Born in New York, Goldstein moved to Israel at the age 26. He became a supporter of the Jewish extreme right, prone to racism and terr...
The Duke of Buckingham built the house from which the present-day Buckingham Palace emerged. His heirs later sold the house to King George III for 21,000 pounds (a rather large sum at that time). On this day the renowned Duke of Buckingham died. The...
The Emperor that was crowned by the Pope on this day – Charles V of Habsburg – was probably one of the most powerful rulers in the whole of European history. On this day was the last time in recorded history that a pope crowned a monarch. This was th...
Steve was adopted by the Jobs family. He never made contact with his biological father, but he met his biological mother and sister (his biological parents subsequently married and had a daughter). Steve Jobs was born on this day in San Francisco. Hi...
On this day Argentine presidential candidate Juan Peron won the election, while at the same time the parliamentary elections were won by his Labor Party (Partido Laborista). These were the first presidential elections that Peron won. It is interestin...
On this day the German Nazi Party held its first assembly under the Nazi name in a Munich brewery Staatliches Hofbräuhaus. It was formerly a small party named German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). On this day it came forward with a new nam...
Today the Rotary Club has about 1,200,000 members worldwide in approximately 34,300 branches. This great organization was conceived precisely on this day in Chicago. On this day in 1905 the world famous Rotary Club was founded in an unusually spont...
This famous hotelier was highly appreciated, because he had a principle that the customer is always right. If one of the guests conveyed any complaint about the food, it would immediately be replaced with a new dish, no questions asked. On this day o...
Diego Columbus became “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” (Spanish: Almirante de la Mar ocean) and “Viceroy of the Indies” (Spanish: Virrey de las Indias) by his father’s inheritance. On this day the only legitimate son of the famous Christopher Columbus died...
On this day began one of the most famous episodes in American history – the Battle of the Alamo. Alamo was a missionary town in Texas, defended by the Texans from the incoming Mexicans. Namely, it was a time when Texas did not belong to the United St...
On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which Clint Eastwood made the film Flags of Our Fathers, was taken. This is one of the most famous war photographs of all time, and according to some...
The controversial but highly influential Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna dominated Mexico during his lifetime to such an extent that he earned the nickname “Napoleon of the West” and the period of Mexican history during which he lived is...
The French landing on this day occurred in the town of Fishguard in Wales. It seems that the local peasants also rose up against the French troops. There is a legend that the local Welshwoman Jemima Nicholas, armed only with pitchfork, captured 12 Fr...
The first company is called by his surname – Lauda Air, and the other by his first name – Niki. Famous Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda was born on this day. He is interesting not only because he was a triple world champion in Formula 1, but also because...
The name “Florida” was given to the peninsula by the Spaniards, who first discovered it. In Spanish, the word “Florida” means “flowery”. On this day the United States bought the territory of the Florida peninsula from the previous owner – the Kingdom...
