Charles Ingram had a career as an officer in the British Army. He had been promoted to the rank of major, but after the quiz he retired by order of the military board. Br...
On September 10, 1939, German General Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig was killed, making him the first general killed during World War II. He held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer...
On September 10, 1967, Gibraltar voted in a referendum for the first time not to join Spain. Gibraltar has been under British rule since the beginning of the 18th century...
At a meeting that was to represent a diplomatic meeting between the Dauphin and Duke Ivan the Fearless, Dauphin’s men killed the Duke. On September 10, 1419, John t...
The Austrian Empress and Croatian-Hungarian Queen Elizabeth, better known as Sisi, was the wife of Emperor Francis Joseph I and a favorite of the public. She was killed o...
The operation was called Edelweiss precisely because of its mountainous character. Soldiers of the German Third Reich managed to set up a flag on the highest peak in Euro...
The famous poet Guillaume Apollinaire was initially suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa, who once said that the entire Louvre should be burned. The most famous theft of w...
Benigno Aquino, as a political opponent of Marcos, was in exile in the US for 3 years. August 21 is a national holiday in the Philippines in mourning for the assassinatio...
