Idea for the story came to her during one summer which she and her husband (famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) spent on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. On this d...
Vidkun Quisling became the head of the Norwegian government thanks to Adolf Hitler rather than through elections. As party leader, Quisling held the title of “Fører...
Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, was born on this day in 1931. He was born in the village of Butka in the Sverdlovsk Oblast in western Siberi...
On this day in 1713 Ottoman forces managed to capture Swedish king Charles near the city of Bender in what is today Moldova. Bender is located around 100 km from the Blac...
In order to promote the Macintosh, Steve Jobs made a TV commercial directed by the famous Ridley Scott, which cost 900,000 U.S. dollars (a truly incredible amount at that...
On this day in 1977 the Apple company was incorporated, and became known as Apple Computer, Inc. The founders and shareholders were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. From 201...
Josiah Wedgwood was the grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, and he was the founder of one of the most famous porcelain families in England. Wedgwood today still pro...
Conrad Hilton – founder of the world-famous Hilton Hotels chain, died on this day. His mother was a devout Catholic, and she raised her son that way, who remained religio...