Marshal Ivan Bagramyan, the only Armenian who has ever received a high rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, died on this day in 1982. Hovhannes Baghramyan was his name in...
Hungarian and Croatian king Andrew II of the Arpad dynasty died on this day in 1235. The king was a prominent crusader leader and personally led his men during the Fifth...
This day in 1356 marked the Battle of Poitiers in France during the Hundred Years’ War. It is interesting to note that the British even captured John II of France or John...
On this day in, Hu Jintao became the new Chinese leader. The previous Chinese president Jiang Zemin resigned as the Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Com...
The powerful Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the USA in 1959, during the Cold War. The visit lasted 13 days. Earlier this year, when the U.S. Vice President Richa...
The emoticons 🙂 and 🙁 were used for the first time on this day in 1982 (the first documented case). Scott Fahlman, who was a scientist (Carnegie Mellon University in Pitt...
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a member of probably the richest family in world history, died on this day. He died in Frankfurt am Main, where he had been born 68 years earlie...
The TV network currently known as the CBS started broadcasting on this day in 1927. Today it is the largest TV network in America, and the second largest in the world (af...