On this day in 2006 former KGB and FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko died in London. The cause of death was poisoning by lethal radioactive polonium-210. It is assumed that...
Jacques Mayol, a French citizen born in Shanghai, China, is the first man in recorded history who managed to dive to a depth of over 100 meters without breathing equipmen...
The famous Wild West outlaw was born on this day in 1859. His real name was William Henry McCarty and he was probably of Irish origin. According to legend, he killed 21 m...
On this day one of the most interesting military commanders of World War II was born. He is most commonly known as Marshal Leclerc, and the French Leclerc battle tank, in...
On this day the first son of the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – was born. It is a very interesting fact that Johann Sebastian had as ma...
Mike Tyson grew up in New York City, in high-crime neighborhoods. He got in trouble as a boy, so that he was arrested 38 times by the age of 13. He never finished high sc...
The piece of Maurice Ravel called Boléro was originally composed as a ballet. The work was commissioned from Ravel by famous Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein. Ravel was a...
Emperor and King Francis Joseph, ruler of the entire Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, died on this day in 1916. He died at the advanced age of 86 years. He was only 18 years of...