On this day in 1946, the famous American multimillionaire and aviation enthusiast Howard Hughes nearly died while flying the experimental XF-11 plane on a test flight. Th...
On this day the Jewish politician Moshe Sharett died. He was the second prime minister in the history of the State of Israel after its independence in 1948 (the first pri...
On this day a nuclear explosion was conducted in Nevada that made the biggest artificial crater in the history of mankind. The crater can be seen there today. It is alm...
On this day the unification of the Catholic and Orthodox churches was announced. It was the culmination after years of efforts to unite the Christian world in the fight...
Maximilian I was born as Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria on this day in 1832. He was less than two years younger than his brother – the Austrian Emperor a...
On this day, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull, in which he condemned the violence against the Jews. Namely, many Europeans at that time accused the Jews for causing th...
On this day in 1921, Nancy Reagan, the wife of US President Ronald Reagan, was born. She was born Anne Frances Robbins, but was already as a child commonly called Nancy,...
On this day, in 1792, Austrian Archduke Francis II was declared Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. History would later show that he was also the last emperor of the Empire...