On this day in 1944, Colonel Count von Stauffenberg was executed in Berlin, along with other conspirators who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. It was Hitler’s swift...
On this day British Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles was born. He was the older of the two brothers who became, one after the other, British Prime Ministers. Thomas la...
On this day in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte achieved a military victory near the Egyptian pyramids not far from Cairo. It was his Egyptian expedition, during which he tried t...
The Austrian sculptor and architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was born in Graz in 1656. He learned the sculptural craft in his father’s workshop. At the ag...
Hitler was so close to the bomb that about 200 pieces of wood had to be taken out of his leg, and his clothes were all in rags. On July 20, 1944, the most famous assassin...
On July 20, 1968, the world’s first Special Olympics sports competition was opened, intended for people with intellectual disabilities. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sist...
Among those killed, the youngest was a 6-year-old girl and the oldest was a 51-year-old man. The massacre took place not far from the site of the famous Columbine school...
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the wife of former Ceylon Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike, and after his assassination, as a widow, she took over the leadership of the Free...