On July 23, 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 pilot successfully landed the aircraft despite running out of fuel at an altitude of about 12,500 meters. The aforementioned Bo...
The scandal erupted when nude photos of her posed for a year before the Miss pageant came to light. Famous musician and actress Vanessa Williams became the first black Mi...
On July 23, 1942, Adolf Hitler from his headquarters Werwolf (Croatian: Werewolf) in Ukraine ordered the launch of an offensive that was to deal a death blow to the Sovie...
The majority of the country’s population are Abkhazians, and a minority are Georgians, Russians and several Caucasian ethnic groups. Abkhazia, a former autonomous S...
The Moroccan king rules over approximately 33,000,000 subjects. Indeed, Morocco is by far the largest monarchy in Africa. About 99% of Morocco’s population are Musl...
The Viscount de Beauharnais married Josephine in 1779, when he was 19 and she was only 16. He was executed during the reign of revolutionary terror in France. On July 23,...
Count Bernardo de Gálvez was recently declared an honorary citizen of the United States for his services, as only the 8th person in history to be awarded such an honor. O...
On this day the current reigning King Mohammed VI of Morocco came to the throne. His country is today the largest Muslim kingdom in terms of population (only Saudi Arabia...