On this day John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon at the U.S. presidential elections with an advantage of only 0.1% votes. One of the crucial things for Kennedy’s victor...
On this day an assassination attempt was made on Hitler. It is believed that the assassin was Johann Georg Elsner, factory worker and opponent of Nazism, who had been pre...
On this day, in the late afternoon hours, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen experimented with a variety of electronic devices, including some of Tesla’s, by putting them...
On this day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States for the 4th time. It was a historical precedent, as no other man before or after him was...
On this day St. Engelbert of Berg died a martyr’s death. This happened during the interesting 13th century – the time of the rise of medieval Europe. At that time, the po...
The wife of President Bill Clinton was born in Chicago. She completed her law studies at Yale and became a successful lawyer. At Yale she also began dating Bill Clinton,...
This day in 1917 marked the beginning of the October Revolution in Russia. It is called the October Revolution because, according to the Julian calendar which was then in...
On this day Jesus Garcia gave his life to save the Mexican city of Nacozari from an exploding train full of dynamite. That day, namely, the train stopped at the station i...