The inventor of the automobile, Karl Benz, was born on this day. His dream was to create a “horseless carriage”, and bicycles were his hobby. In the year 1885 he made the...
On this day in 1864 the famous French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born. He was small in stature, but a giant in his artistic talent. His origin is interesting....
On this day, one of Hitler’s most important field marshals – Erich von Manstein – was born. It is interesting that he, despite having a sky-high position in the Wehrmacht...
One of the most celebrated military leaders in Russian history – Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov – was born on this day. It seems that he belongs among the rare commanders...
Freddie Mercury was born under the name Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (today Tanzania), from parents who were Indian Parsis (people in India originating from Iran, of Zoroa...
Lee Harvey Oswald was a suspect for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. On this day, just two days after the Kennedy assassination, Oswald was killed when the police...
The famous John Boyd Dunlop, to whom we owe the popularization of the use of pneumatic tires on all road vehicles, was born on this day. The Dunlop tire brand is still re...
On this day in 1910 the only guillotine execution in the history Sweden was conducted. The person guillotined was Johan Alfred Ander, a Swedish citizen convicted of robbe...