Nazi Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler’s closest associates, was born on this day. Hess became “Deputy Führer” (Stellvertreter des Führers) after Hitler came to power, making hi...
Many saints were contemporaries of Louis IX, such as St. Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Albert the Great. St. Louis IX was born on this day i...
The Spanish right-wing politician Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was born on this day. He was the founder of the Spanish Falange, a right-wing party with fascist characteri...
An Italian marquis of a very unusual origin died on this day. Namely, Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat was actually the son of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeol...
German emperor Wilhelm II helped place Victoria’s body into the coffin. As a widow, Queen Victoria wore black clothes for almost the last 40 years of her life....
Pope Benedict XIII was born on this day under the name Pietro Francesco Orsini. The process of his canonization has been started, and he currently bears the title of Serv...
Idea for the story came to her during one summer which she and her husband (famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) spent on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. On this d...
Vidkun Quisling became the head of the Norwegian government thanks to Adolf Hitler rather than through elections. As party leader, Quisling held the title of “Fører...