On this day in 1526, Juan Sebastián Elcano, the leader of the first expedition to sail around the world in human history, died. Namely, the famous expedition, which was i...
Barack Hussein Obama was born on Hawaii on this day in 1961. His father was also called Barack Hussein Obama, and was a Kenyan Muslim. President Obama’s mother was an Ame...
The Russian Empire and Mexico had established diplomatic relations back in 1890, but the revolutions which broke out in the countries in the second decade of the 20th cen...
French king Henry I of the Capet dynasty died on this day in 1060. At the time of his reign, the French royal domain (the area under the king’s direct authority) was prob...
On this day a very rare situation occurred when a Catholic cardinal also became a king. The person in question was Henry of Portugal, born 1512 to the Portuguese ruling d...
Soviet marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky died on this day in the turbulent year 1968. Rokossovsky was born into an impoverished noble family in Warsaw, which was at that tim...
On this day in 1944, the largest merchant ship convoy in World War II crossed the Atlantic Ocean and entered British waters. The convoy bore the designation HX-300 becaus...
One of the most important and most researched battles in human history took place on this day in 216 BC. An army of 50,000 Carthaginians under the famed general Hannibal...