Archduke Joseph August of Austria, a member of the Habsburg-Lothringen dynasty, was born on this day in 1872. He belonged to a branch of that dynasty which held the highe...
On this day Yugoslav authorities forced an American C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft to land some 12 km from Kranj in Slovenia. That plane had allegedly entered Yugoslav...
On this day the famous South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung, the later Nobel laureate and president, was kidnapped. At that time he was the leader of the opposition agai...
On this day, in 1945, Stalin’s USSR declared war on imperial Japan. Of course, it was already very late in World War II, since the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb...
On this day in 1991 the then-highest human structure in the world, approximately 646 meters high radio mast near Warsaw, collapsed. Only one structure higher than that of...
On this day in 1987 American swimmer Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR. At the time she was 30 years old. Her swim lasted two hours and f...
On this day in 1947 an expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl finished its famous journey on the Kon-Tiki raft. By that expedition, Heyerdahl wanted to prove that it was possib...
On this day in 1714, the Imperial Russian Navy achieved its first major victory at the Battle of Gangut, during the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden. The batt...