On this day Apollo 17 was launched, the last manned mission sent to the moon. It is almost unbelievable that since then, for more than 40 years, people have not set foot...
Marshal Michel Ney was one of Napoleon’s closest associates. Napoleon declared him marshal in 1804, simultaneously with the declaration of the French Empire. On that occa...
The first execution in the United States using the new method – lethal injection – was performed on this day. It happened in Texas when Charles Brooks, convicted of murde...
On this day, just one day before the end of the Second Vatican Council, the bilateral abolition of excommunication between the Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople was an...
In the early morning hours on this day in 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval port on the Pacific – Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This was supposedly done before Japa...
On this day in 1921, Irish and British politicians signed the Treaty on the independence of Ireland. This Anglo-Irish Treaty concluded the Irish War of Independence and l...
On this day died Pope Clement VI, born Pierre Roger. This pope was a Frenchman by nationality, and it is interesting that he did not rule from Rome, but from Avignon, a c...
On this day, a 25-year-old Canadian of Algerian origin shot 28 people before taking his own life. His born name was Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi, but he later changed it t...