On this day Japanese businessman Soichiro Honda, the founder of the famous company Honda, died. This company is the second-largest Japanese manufacturer of automobiles t...
On this day in 1526, Juan Sebastián Elcano, the leader of the first expedition to sail around the world in human history, died. Namely, the famous expedition, which was i...
Barack Hussein Obama was born on Hawaii on this day in 1961. His father was also called Barack Hussein Obama, and was a Kenyan Muslim. President Obama’s mother was an Ame...
The Russian Empire and Mexico had established diplomatic relations back in 1890, but the revolutions which broke out in the countries in the second decade of the 20th cen...
French king Henry I of the Capet dynasty died on this day in 1060. At the time of his reign, the French royal domain (the area under the king’s direct authority) was prob...
On this day a very rare situation occurred when a Catholic cardinal also became a king. The person in question was Henry of Portugal, born 1512 to the Portuguese ruling d...
This day marked the solemn opening of one of the most famous opera houses in the world, the “Scala” in Milan. Its original name was “Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala“...
The Moscow Olympic Games were ended on this day in 1980. These were the 22nd modern Olympic Games, and are notable for being boycotted by around 50 countries. The boycott...