The powerful Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the USA in 1959, during the Cold War. The visit lasted 13 days. Earlier this year, when the U.S. Vice President Richa...
The emoticons 🙂 and 🙁 were used for the first time on this day in 1982 (the first documented case). Scott Fahlman, who was a scientist (Carnegie Mellon University in Pitt...
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a member of probably the richest family in world history, died on this day. He died in Frankfurt am Main, where he had been born 68 years earlie...
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died under mysterious circumstances on this day in 1961. It has remained unknown what caused the crash of his plane in Africa. Tha...
Léon Foucault, the French scientist after whom the famous Foucault pendulum was named, was born on this day in 1819. The British Queen Victoria was also born in 1819. Fut...
Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, the man who was to become the 254th Pope in 1831, was born on this day in 1765. As Pope, he took the name Gregory XVI and remains the last...
The TV network currently known as the CBS started broadcasting on this day in 1927. Today it is the largest TV network in America, and the second largest in the world (af...
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first son, Patrick, was born on this day in 1993. His mother was Maria Shriver, a well-known member of the Kennedy family (John F. Kennedy w...