One of the greatest moments in aviation history took place on this day. The eccentric multimillionaire Howard Hughes tried to take off in the largest airplane in history....
On this day in 1999, first Croatian president Dr. Franjo Tuđman made his last public appearance. It was All Saints’ Day. Croatian president Franjo Tuđman appeared a...
On this day it was decided that Stalin’s body was to be removed from Lenin’s Mausoleum, where it was interred together with that of the first Soviet leader, V...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is widely known as one of the (if not the) most capable among Hitler’s military commanders in World War II. Fewer people know that he be...
The American First Lady who surely held the greatest power during her husband’s presidential mandate was born on this day in 1872. Edith Wilson was the wife of the...
On this day in 2003, the People’s Republic of China became the third country in history to successfully send a man into space. Only two other countries (the USA and...
Hermann Goering is known as one of Hitler’s closest associates. He held the highest rank in the Third Reich, that of Reichsmarschall, which made him the senior comm...
This day in 961 marked the death of the powerful Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III, one of the greatest Muslim rulers of his time. He took the title of caliph, which denotes the l...