On this day in 1970 American inventor Douglas Engelbart obtained a patent (U.S. Patent 3,541,541) for a computer mouse. In the patent application the device was called “X...
The International Students’ Day is celebrated on this day, to commemorate the tragic events that occured on this day in 1939, in Prague. The events began to unfold a few...
On this day a little-known but very interesting event from the American War of Independence took place. Namely, the German mercenaries seized Fort Washington, which was l...
The “father of modern warfare” – the mighty Swedish King Gustav Adolf – was killed on this day in 1632. He is also called the first great modern general of all time, and...
On this day Dr. Albert Hofmann first synthesized a compound called LSD. Hofmann was an employee of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. In their lab, he studied the s...
Sir Oswald Mosley was born in England to an aristocratic family. He was a fourth cousin of the current Queen Elizabeth II. From his father he inherited the title of baron...
On this day Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death because he was a member of the liberal society of intellectuals known as Petrashevsky Ci...
On this day the famous American Air Force General Curtis LeMay was born. He was known for his belligerence, which is why he got the nickname “Bombs Away LeMay”. As a U.S....
