On this day the creator of the famous Asterix comics, René Goscinny, died on this day aged only 51. It is not widely known that, despite being born in France, he was actu...
Her Sultanic Highness Princess Fawzia was born in the sultan’s palace in Alexandria, Egypt, on this day in 1921. She was the daughter of Egyptian Sultan Fuad. The p...
On this day in 2008, Barack Obama was elected U.S. president, becoming the first person of African American heritage to achieve that high function. Of course, Joe Biden w...
Elsie MacGill, the first known female aircraft designer in history, died on this day in 1980. She was a Canadian, born in Vancouver in 1905. Her parents were lawyers; in...
The well-known Italian saint, Charles Borromeo, died on this day in 1584. During his life, he held various church offices – he was the Archbishop of Milan for roughly 20...
On this day in 1956, Soviet tanks entered the Hungarian capital of Budapest, so as to put down the revolution that had broken out there. The tanks had already surrounded...
This day in 1874 marked the birth of the most powerful anticommunist leader in Russia – Alexander Kolchak. The Russians who fought against the Bolshevik revolutionary gov...
On this day the fleet of the Russian Empire blockaded the Greek island of Corfu. This was the time when Russian expansion was at its peak. They simultaneously encroached...