The Spanish right-wing politician Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was born on this day. He was the founder of the Spanish Falange, a right-wing party with fascist characteri...
An Italian marquis of a very unusual origin died on this day. Namely, Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat was actually the son of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeol...
At the time when Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to invade the Russian Empire, it was so vast that it founded colonies in California and on Hawaii. On this day the Russi...
Spanish colonizers named today’s capital of Argentina after the Sardinian shrine “Santa María del Buen Aire”. What did the Spaniards have to do with a shrine located on a...
German emperor Wilhelm II helped place Victoria’s body into the coffin. As a widow, Queen Victoria wore black clothes for almost the last 40 years of her life....
Pope Benedict XIII was born on this day under the name Pietro Francesco Orsini. The process of his canonization has been started, and he currently bears the title of Serv...
On this day in 1260 the Mongols killed a group of 49 Dominican monks in the Polish city of Sandomierz. This took place during the second Mongol invasion of Poland, which...
While the Shuttle was still in orbit, some engineers anticipated that there could be some damage on the shuttle, but NASA didn’t organize a thorough investigation under t...