This day in 1945 marked a big U.S. naval disaster. Specifically, the Japanese submarine I-58 sank the USS Indianapolis, which had 1,196 men onboard. The USS Indianapolis...
On this day the American President Dwight David Eisenhower signed the document establishing NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). This agency was suppose...
Interestingly, the B-17 had heavy M2 Browning machine guns deployed in as many as 8 seats per aircraft. The most conspicuous was the one in the very nose of the aircraft,...
On July 28, 1835, Marshal Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier was assassinated during an assassination attempt on the last French King Louis Philippe in Paris. The ass...
The infamous Stalin Order no. 227 is best known for the words: “Not a step back!”. The so-called blocking detachments, which were to stand behind the front an...
Robespierre was arrested at Paris City Hall and then allegedly locked up in the same rooms where Queen Marie Antoinette had previously been detained. On July 28, 1794, Ma...
On July 28, 1932, during the Great Depression, U.S. troops, backed by tanks and tear gas-filled bombs, surrounded protesters in Washington. 43,000 protesters, including 1...
Nathan Mayer Rothschild came from his native Frankfurt to London and founded a bank in the City of London there. That bank grew into a financial giant called N M Rothschi...