The entrepreneur Walter Wolf, best known by his brand of cigarettes, was born on this day in 1939. He was born in Graz, to a Slovenian mother and Austrian father. Walter...
Gregory XIII conducted a reform of the calendar through his bull Inter gravissimas, issued on 24 February 1582. The bull prescribed that the date 4 October was to be foll...
This day in 1965 marked the first time in history that a pope set foot on U.S. soil. Namely, on that day, Pope Paul VI made a pastoral journey to the USA. Pope Paul VI (G...
This day in 1881 marked the birth of Walther von Brauchitsch, one of the highest-ranking military commanders in Hitler’s Third Reich. Von Brauchitsch reached the ra...
On this day, the UK made its first nuclear weapons test in its history. In this way it became the third nuclear power in the world, since the only other countries to poss...
A series of events took place on this day, which led to young Napoleon achieving the status of a French national hero. Namely, Napoleon managed to defend the French revol...
Nazi physician Ernst-Günther Schenck, known for having spent the last days of World War II in Hitler’s command bunker in Berlin, was born on this day in 1904. His a...
On this day in 1955, Juscelino Kubitschek won the Brazilian presidential elections. He remains one of the most important presidents in Brazilian history to this day. Duri...