On this day in 1908, the first edition of the well-known communist newspaper, Pravda, was published in Vienna. The leading figure in these efforts was Leon Trotsky, who w...
This day in 1782 marked the death of General Charles Lee, George Washington’s rival for the position of commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the War of...
This day in 1791 marked the last session of the Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution. The Assembly was first formed in 1789, at the very beginning of the Rev...
One of the strangest aircrafts ever built – the Super Guppy outsize cargo freight airplane – made its first flight on this day in 1965. It was primarily built for NASA, a...
German fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille died on this day in 1942. He achieved fame by shooting down over 150 Allied aircraft, allegedly including an unbelievable eigh...
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was founded on this day in 1954. Originally, the acronym CERN was a French term for “Conseil Européen pour la Recher...
On this day, the 12-year-old girl Mary Kellerman died. Soon, other sudden deaths occurred, and all those people (in the Chicago area) had taken the Tylenol capsule. Inves...
On this day in 1911, Italy declared war on the Ottoman Empire. That was the beginning of the Italo-Turkish War (it lasted from 1911 to 1912). That war was surprisingly hi...