St. Fermin is especially popular in Pamplona, where the running with the bulls is held in his honor every year. Pamplona is the capital of Navarre, the country which is p...
On this day in 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. She was 51 years old at the time. Sandra Day O...
This day in 1868 marked the shipwreck of the Russian warship “Alexander Nevsky” near the coast of Denmark. Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, the son of the former Russian...
Solomon Bandaranaike, a Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, was assassinated by a Buddhist monk on this day in 1959. The monk Talduwe Somarama was persuaded to do so due to the...
Hungarian Baroness Emma Orczy, who later became a famous writer in the UK, was born on this day in 1865. Her birth name was Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Joseph Borbála Orc...
Sigmund Freud died in exile in London on this day in 1939. He had lived there since 1938, when the Nazis had come to power in Austria. Then, he left the city of Vienna wh...
On this day in 1938, nearly a year before the beginning of World War II, British Prime Minister Chamberlain met with German Chancellor Hitler. They tried to peacefully re...
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, a Spanish conquistador who had travelled through the areas of the present-day USA during the 16th century, died on this day in 1554. Intere...