It was the only attack on the American mainland in the entire First World War. The said U-156 was a German submarine of the powerful class Deutschland. The German submari...
Over time, the Soviets sought to disguise Moscow in various ways to diminish the accuracy of the German bombing. On July 21, 1941, the first air attack by the Luftwaffe (...
By the year of his birth (1899), Hemingway was almost the same age as his fellow writers William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Ernest Hemingway, an...
Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the surface of the Moon, touching the lunar ground at exactly 2:56 a.m. Greenwich. As part of the Apollo 11 mission, humanity...
Prince Adolf von Auersperg came to the office of Prime Minister in 1871 and then remained on it until 1879. Prince Adolf von Auersperg, Prime Minister of the Austrian par...
Manuel II. a year before his death he was forced to sign a humiliating peace with Sultan Murat II. by which Byzantium undertook to pay an annual tribute. On July 21, 1425...
This day in 1865 marked the first Wild West gunfight, which took place immediately after the American Civil War (the last shot was allegedly fired on 22 June 1865 i.e. ab...
On this day, the lowest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth, minus 89.2 °C, was measured. The place where this happened is called the Pole of Cold and is located o...