On this day in 1951, the toughest traffic accident in the UK thus far occurred. A double-decker bus drove that night on a country road near Gillingham, Kent, and ploughed...
The ship Mary Celeste is the greatest maritime mystery in history. Namely, on this day in the year 1872, that ship was found in the Atlantic Ocean in pristine condition,...
For centuries there was a custom in India of burning widows on the funeral pyre of their deceased husband. At first, the widows were not required to do so, but that act w...
The famous St. Francis Xavier – one of the greatest missionaries in the history of the Catholic Church – died on this day. By birth he was probably Basque, a member of th...
Roman Emperor Diocletian, one of the most famous, but also notorious Roman rulers, died on this day. He was previously retired for many years, living out his retirement i...
On this day, the only English pope in the whole history of the Catholic Church was elected. His birth name was Nicholas Breakspear, and as pope he took the name of Adrian...
On this day falls the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on the...
One of the worst environmental and human disasters in history happened on this day. In the city of Bhopal in India, toxic gas leaked from a plant, poisoning over half-a-m...