The famous Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier reached Japan on this day in 1549. Namely, he sailed from Lisbon back in 1541 on a long journey towards India with the aim...
On this day in 1675, French military commander Turenne was killed in the Battle of Salzbach in Germany. He was a member of the famous La Tour d’Auvergne dynasty, wh...
On this day the important American federal investigating agency FBI was established. Interestingly, it was founded by none other than one Prince of Napoleon’s Bonaparte...
On this day in 1945, parts of the U.S. nuclear bomb, which would be thrown on Hiroshima, were brought to Tinian Island by the American cruiser USS Indianapolis. It was th...
The former Greek King Otto died in the German city of Bamberg on this day in 1867. He was the first king of Greece in Modern Times. It is interesting to note that he beca...
On this day Archduke Maximilian Francis, Archbishop and Elector Spiritual of Cologne, died. He was the youngest child of the famous Empress Maria Theresa, meaning that he...
On this day Japanese Field Marshal Shunroku Hata was born – one of only five of Imperial Japanese Army officers with a marshal’s rank during World War II. Ind...
On this day, one of the worst aviation accidents in history happened and it largely determined the fate of supersonic flights in the upcoming decades. Specifically, a sup...