Napoleon’s younger brother Louis Bonaparte was born on this day in 1778. His son Napoleon III would later become the Emperor of France and thus continue the lineage...
On this day in 459 St. Simeon Stylites, a well-known ascetic, died. He reportedly spent the last 37 or 39 years living on a small platform on the top of a pillar (the sai...
Operation Himmler, led by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and the Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich, served as an excuse for the attack. Their people, dressed in unif...
The French Emperor Napoleon III decided to take personal command of the army, and his goal was to prevent the German army’s penetration into France. He was heading toward...
Hitler’s chief architect of the Reich and Minister of Armaments Albert Speer was also the leader of the grandiose construction projects (regarding Nazi Berlin). Aft...
Gaddafi was born among the Bedouins in the desert. In his youth, he enrolled in the Libyan military academy, and also attended military schools in the UK, didn’t attain t...
The President of the Republic of Albania, Ahmet Zogu, proclaimed himself King Zogu I of Albania on this day in 1928. Three years earlier, he had been elected the Presiden...
On this day in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died. Her car was badly damaged in the Parisian underpass. Dodi Fayed was with Diana when the accident occurred. He was Moh...