On this day in 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in the Barents Sea. It was a very large submarine, being 154 meters long – equivalent to two Boeing 74...
On this day in 1953 the USSR detonated its first thermonuclear bomb. Of course, thermonuclear weapons produce much more powerful (up to 1,000 times) explosions than stand...
On this day in 1914 Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW1. This put the multinational Central European empire at war with the world’s greatest colonial power. Th...
The largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date was discovered on this day in 1990. The skeleton was nicknamed “Sue” after its discoverer, t...
This day in 1689 marked the death of Blessed Pope Innocent XI, one of the popes from the Baroque period. His birth name was Benedetto Odescalchi, and he came from a disti...
K2 is located at an altitude of 8,611 meters, which is only 237 meters less than the height of Mount Everest, the only higher peak on Earth. The first ascent to the mount...
On July 31, 1498, Christopher Columbus first reached the island of Trinidad, one of the largest and southernmost of the Caribbean islands. The word Trinidad in Spanish me...
The Basque organization fighting for national independence, ETA, was founded on 31 May 1959. The abbreviation ETA means the term Euskadi ta Askatasuna, which in the Basqu...
