Leonard Cheshire, a highly decorated World War II fighter pilot, was born on this day in 1917. He converted to Catholicism and became a humanitarian worker. Cheshire was...
Ferdinand Magellan was not the first man to sail around the world. Namely, he was killed during the journey (in the Philippines) and didn’t even originally intend t...
The French King Louis XIV, the “Sun King”, was born on this day in 1638. He was the most powerful king in Europe at the time, and set up one of his grandsons to the thron...
The author of Dangerous Liaisons (French: Les Liaisons Dangereuses), one of the most famous novels of the 18th century, died on this day at the age of 61. There are many...
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, a Russian author and a count, was born on this day in 1817. He was a cousin of the famous Leo Tolstoy. They held the title of count, whic...
This day in 1891 marked the birth of Fritz Todt, one of the most influential people of Hitler’s Third Reich. Todt was the head of the huge “Organization Todt” (OT),...
Ferdinand Porsche, the famous automotive engineer, was born on this day in 1875. It is interesting to note that he was born in Maffersdorf (Vratislavice and Nisou, the Cz...
Japan signed a formal capitulation aboard the USS Missouri. The signatories were Japanese foreign minister Shigemitsu and chief of High Command general Umezu, and America...