The US State Department asked the USSR for help, so the Soviets sent two icebreakers. A large group ...
Whales trapped in ice in northern Alaska discovered – 1988
October, 2020
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Rebellion (1944)
The Auschwitz II camp in Birkenau was the largest in the Auschwitz complex. It was an extermination ...
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Russian imperial couple who toured Europe incognito (1776)
On October 7, 1776, the wedding of Russian Tsar Paul to German Princess Sophia Maria Dorothea of W ...
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Helmut Lent – night pilot with more than 100 downed aircraft – 1944.
By the end of 1942, Helmut Lent had gained a reputation as the best night fighter pilot in the Third ...
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Born Vladimir Putin – 1952.
As a child, Putin lived with his family relatively modestly, in an apartment building in Leningrad l ...
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Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908)
On October 7, 1908, Austria-Hungary declared the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which led to ...
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SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser – father of the Waffen-SS unit – 1880.
During his military career, Paul Hausser was wounded several times (he lost an eye and his jaw was s ...
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JNA planes rocketed the Banska palace in Zagreb – 1991
The President of the Republic of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, the President of the Presidency of the SFRY ...
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The greatest Christian naval victory over the Ottomans – 1571.
Six Croatian galleys from Cres, Krk, Rab, Šibenik, Trogir and Hvar also took part in the battle. The ...
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Ford and Adenauer laid the cornerstone of a large factory in Cologne
On October 2, 1930, Henry Ford laid the cornerstone of an automobile factory in the German city of C ...