On this day Asia was hit by the strongest hurricane in contemporary history. In a short time it killed about 500,000 people. The hurricane swept through the densely popul...
The most popular automatic rifle in history was first put into use on this day in 1947 (hence the marking 47). The rifle was designed by Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov...
The largest warship at Nazi Germany’s disposal capsized on this day in Norwegian waters. It was the famous battleship Tirpitz, the pride of the German fleet from the year...
A really unusual event occurred on this day back in 764. Namely, Tibetan military forces occupied the huge capital of China – Chang’an – once the largest city in the enti...
Back in the 19th century, there were different opinions of the territory on which European Jews could relocate. Relocation was, on one hand, sought by anti-Semites trying...
On this day Briton Hugh Gray took first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. He was walking home from church that day carrying a small camera. He saw a large creature i...
Robert F. Scott was a British polar explorer. In the year 1910 he started a bold expedition to Antarctica with the goal of being the first to conquer the South Pole. On 1...
On this day one of the worst disasters in the history of ski resorts occurred. A funicular which carried 167 people caught fire as it passed through a tunnel in the Austr...