On this day in 2007, the last King of Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir Shah died. He was born in Kabul in 1914, and was the son of the Afghan King Muhammad Nadir Shah. He asc...
On this day in 1936, the first nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War was established. This happened just a week after the beginning of the war, which was mo...
On this day, in 1773, Sir Thomas Brisbane, the British general who played a role in Australian history, was born. Namely, Sir Thomas Brisbane was Governor of the British...
On this day the American Ford Motor Company sold its first car. The vehicle was named Ford Model A and it was sold to Ernst Pfennig from Chicago. Model A was a two-seate...
Had he lived, Philip I the Beautiful would surely have become emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of all of Spain and southern Italy, with his vast estates in Burgu...
The Zionist terrorist organization Irgun attacked the headquarters of the British military command in Jerusalem. The Zionists carried out the largest terrorist attack on...
At the time of the outbreak of the October Revolution, Count Brasov was only seven years old. His mother managed to organize his extraction from Russia, with the help of...
Duke Ludwig Rudolf of Braunschweig-Lüneburg had several daughters, one of whom was the mother of the Empress and Croatian-Hungarian ruler Maria Theresa, and the other mar...