Hungarian Baroness Emma Orczy, who later became a famous writer in the UK, was born on this day in 1865. Her birth name was Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Joseph Borbála Orc...
On this day in 1641, a ship which carried an interesting treasure sank. This great treasure is still waiting to be discovered. It was the British ship named Merchant Roya...
Sigmund Freud died in exile in London on this day in 1939. He had lived there since 1938, when the Nazis had come to power in Austria. Then, he left the city of Vienna wh...
On this day in 1938, nearly a year before the beginning of World War II, British Prime Minister Chamberlain met with German Chancellor Hitler. They tried to peacefully re...
Father of Suleiman the Magnificent – the famous Sultan Selim I (also known as Selim the Cruel) died on this day in 1520. He doubled the Ottoman Empire after he had conque...
The American politician Henry Kissinger became Secretary of State on this day in 1973, but he retained his position of the president’s national security adviser. He...
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, a Spanish conquistador who had travelled through the areas of the present-day USA during the 16th century, died on this day in 1554. Intere...
Wilhelm Keitel, one of Hitler’s highest-ranking military commanders, was born on this day in 1882. He held the rank of Field Marshal in the armed forces of the Thir...