The Berners Street Hoax was thought up by Theodore Edward Hook, an English composer and novelist. The hoax is named after Berners Street in London, a quiet and peaceful s...
Little is known about Roman emperor Vespasian’s reign except that he was a highly competent general, winning decisive victories in Britain and Judaea and later duri...
The 43rd Academy Awards were presented on 15 April 1971 in Los Angeles. It was on that occasion that George C. Scott became the first actor in history to reject an Academ...
While Napoleon’s most famous defeat was undoubtedly the one at Waterloo, his most humiliating one happened sometime sooner. Namely, in July 1807, while in high spir...
By 1944 it became obvious the tide was turning against Imperial Japan in World War II. However, the Japanese troops fought fanatically and it looked like the Allies were...
The great physicist Albert Einstein passes away in Princeton Hospital, New Jersey on 18 April 1955. The cause of his death was the rupture of an aneurysm, which had alrea...
