Many saints were contemporaries of Louis IX, such as St. Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Albert the Great. St. Louis IX was born on this day i...
Despite the vast wealth and war efforts of the Athenians, Sparta won the war. The Peloponnesian War ended on this day in 404 BC. Sparta finally defeated Athens after over...
The starting and ending point of this adventure were the St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The first underwater circumnavigation of the wo...
Felix Klein, the famous German mathematician, was born on this day in 1849. The Klein bottle was named after him. It is a mathematical example of a non-orientable surface...
This day in 1945, near the end of World War II, marked the first time the troops of the Western Allies and the Soviets came into direct contact in Germany. It was a turni...
The Battle of Villers-Bretonneux in northern France took place during the last year of World War I. This day in 1918 marks the anniversary of the first tank battle in wor...
The Library of Congress claims it is the largest in the world with 160 million titles and 1350 km of shelves. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. was founded on t...
China’s first successful launch of an object into space was historically important because China then entered the so-called “Space Club”. On this day China launched its f...