Leonard Cheshire, a highly decorated World War II fighter pilot, was born on this day in 1917. He converted to Catholicism and became a humanitarian worker. Cheshire was...
Dimitri Tsafendas, a South African citizen of mixed origin, stabbed him in chest and neck. Tsafendas’s father was a Greek sailor, and his mother was an African, so he was...
This day in 1923 marked the birth of the last Yugoslav king, Peter II of the Karađorđević dynasty. He became king when he was only 11, after his father, Alexander I, was...
Ferdinand Magellan was not the first man to sail around the world. Namely, he was killed during the journey (in the Philippines) and didn’t even originally intend t...
Influential U.S. politician and businessman Joseph (Joe) Kennedy was born on this day in 1888. He was a member of the Catholic Kennedy family, which had emigrated to Amer...
The author of what will one day be the largest sculpture in the world was born on this day in 1908. His name was Korczak Ziolkowski and he was of Polish-American origin....
The French King Louis XIV, the “Sun King”, was born on this day in 1638. He was the most powerful king in Europe at the time, and set up one of his grandsons to the thron...
On this day in 1977, Voyager 1 was launched by NASA. It is interesting to note that Voyager 1 still works, more than three and a half decades after its launch into space....