They were called the UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organization) and responsible for securing ceasefires in the Middle East. The first UN peacekeeping troops were founded on this day in 1948. They were called the UNTSO (United Nations Truce...
A lot of people know that the Turks committed a terrible genocide against the Armenians. It was one of the bloodiest crimes in recent history, and people responsible for genocide were hiding the truth for a long time. Over million people were killed...
John F. Kennedy was born as the second child of his parents (he had a two-years-older brother Joe, who was killed during World War II). John F. Kennedy was born in a suburb of the U.S. city of Boston, at 83 Beals Street, Brookline, where his parents...
Today, the capital of Chad is called N’Djamena, but from the time it was founded to 1973 it was called Fort-Lamy. On this day in 1900, the capital of the African Republic of Chad was founded. Today, the city is called N’Djamena, but from the time it...
Divorce was difficult for Josephine, but she and Napoleon still tried to remain on good terms. She lived at the Château de Malmaison near Paris, where she grew roses. On this day in 1814, the famous French Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonapart...
On this day in 1990, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). At that time the USSR still existed, and the RSFSR was its largest republic. Therefore, Yelts...
On this day, the first meeting of the well-known Bilderberg Group, which many conspiracy theorists still believe secretly controls the world, was held. The group was named Bilderberg after the hotel where the first conference was held. It was the Hot...
It was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history (during peacetime). The Norwegian collier didn't sink, unlike the “Empress of Ireland“. There were more than 1,000 victims. The “SS Storstad” (gross tonnage: 6,028 tons) was 134 meters long, whil...
The bloody coup occurred in Serbia on this day in 1903 (according to the Julian calendar, which was used there at the time). The Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović and Queen Draga Obrenović (ex Mašin) were killed. Prime Minister Dimitri Cincar-Markovi...
This day is arguably the most important date in the history of human mountain climbing. Namely, on that day, the first people in history conquered Mount Everest, the highest peak of the world – Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay....
The nuclear tests were performed in the Ras Koh hills in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. Pakistan conducted its first series of true nuclear tests on this day in 1998 (the previous ones had been the so-called subcritical tests, which didn’t in...
August Eigruber was born in Steyr, Upper Austria. The young Hitler had also lived in Steyr when he attended school. It is interesting to note that the Austrian province of Styria (Steiermark) was named after the city of Steyr, and this city is locate...
On this day in 1934, the famous Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets in recorded history who survived infancy, were born. They were identical quintuplets named Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Émilie, and Marie. They were born in Canada, in the Province...
The Duke of Windsor died in the “Villa Windsor” in Paris, located within the Bois de Boulogne. The Duke of Windsor, former English king Edward VIII, died on this day in 1972. He had abdicated back in 1936 in order to marry the American woman Wallis S...
The Armada had as many as 130 ships with almost 26,000 men and 2,500 guns. On this day in 1588 the ships of the Spanish Armada began their great campaign to conquer England. Spanish king Phillip II intended to take England from Protestant Queen Eliza...
This day in 1828 marked the death of the interesting Japanese man named Daikokuya Kōdayū, who experienced an incredible adventure in the Russian Empire around the time of the French Revolution. By profession Daikokuya Kōdayū was a seaman, the captai...
Automotive production was an example of propaganda used to glorify Adolf Hitler's government. The company was originally called Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. A year later, its name was changed to Volkswagenwerk GmbH. Th...
On this day in 1937, the famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was opened. It is probably the most famous bridge in the world. The towers of the Golden Gate rise to a height of 227.4 meters. The Golden Gate Bridge is hung from cables over 93 ce...
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was born on this day in 1892. He was one of only four men who held the rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, similar to the rank of army general in the German Army (only the rank of Reichsführer-SS was higher than their rank, and hel...
On this day in 1987, a legendary incident occurred during the Cold War. The young German pilot, 18-year-old Mathias Rust, landed a Cessna 172 right near the Red Square in Moscow, the center of the Soviet empire. Mathias Rust, from West Germany, start...
The Bismarck was hit by over 400 British shells, but was still floating. 114 of its crew were rescued, while more than 2,000 were killed. The German battleship Bismarck, the pride of the German navy at the time of Adolf Hitler, was sunk on this day i...
On this day in 1995, American actor Christopher Reeve suffered one of the most terrible accidents that can befall a person. Specifically, after falling from a horse he suffered a cervical spinal injury that paralyzed him from the neck down. This cond...
Matilda Bonaparte was born in Trieste, when this city was a part of the Austrian Empire. She married the Russian Count Anatole Demidov. Matilda Bonaparte, Napoleon's niece, was born on this day in 1820. She was a daughter of Napoleon's youngest broth...
On this day in 1707, one of the most famous French royal mistresses – the famous Marquise de Montespan – died. She was the official mistress (French: maîtresse en titre) of the French King Louis XIV (“Sun King”). Louis XIV was the most powerful ruler...
After two and a half years in prison, Bl. Margaret Pole was executed on this day in 1541. Bl. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was executed at the Tower of London on this day in 1541. Her cousin, King Henry VIII, ordered her execution. Bl. Marga...
On this day one of the most famous assassinations in World War II happened. Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most notorious Nazis, whom Hitler himself called "the man with the iron heart”, was attacked. Heydrich was the head of all secret services of th...
This day marked the coronation of Russian Tsar Alexander III Romanov in Moscow. He was the penultimate reigning emperor of Russia because the rule of his son, Tsar Nicholas II, was interrupted by the revolution. Alexander III was about 193 centimeter...
After Napoleon's army marched into Dalmatia, it continued to advance towards the south, with the intention of taking the Bay of Kotor. But, the Russians, as Napoleon's enemies, wanted to take a strategic position in the Balkans, which would limit the...
Hans Lammers was born on this day in 1879. He held the high position of Head of the Reich (German: Chef der Reichskanzlei). He was also a minister (Reichsminister), as the Head of the Reich, i.e. a member of Hitler's cabinet (the government of the Th...
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 became the first commercial (non-military) aircraft which exceeded Mach 2, on this day in 1970. The only other commercial supersonic aircraft in world history which also exceeded Mach 2 was the Concorde, which happened in No...
