On this day Dr. Albert Hofmann first synthesized a compound called LSD. Hofmann was an employee of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. In their lab, he studied the s...
Sir Oswald Mosley was born in England to an aristocratic family. He was a fourth cousin of the current Queen Elizabeth II. From his father he inherited the title of baron...
On this day Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death because he was a member of the liberal society of intellectuals known as Petrashevsky Ci...
On this day the famous American Air Force General Curtis LeMay was born. He was known for his belligerence, which is why he got the nickname “Bombs Away LeMay”. As a U.S....
The famous British Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder, one of the most deserving people for the rise of Great Britain as a superpower, was born on this day in 1708. Pi...
On this day the Soviet space shuttle Buran was launched into Space. The Buran spacecraft was the answer to Americans making the Space Shuttle, and by design it very much...
On this day the two robbers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, killed the Clutter family of four on their family farm in Kansas. Prior to this event, Hickock...
On this day the Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Romani are to be treated the same as the Jews, i.e. they are to be imprisoned in concentration camps. This...