Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, was born on this day in 1931. He was born in the village of Butka in the Sverdlovsk Oblast in western Siberi...
On this day in 1713 Ottoman forces managed to capture Swedish king Charles near the city of Bender in what is today Moldova. Bender is located around 100 km from the Blac...
Josiah Wedgwood was the grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, and he was the founder of one of the most famous porcelain families in England. Wedgwood today still pro...
Conrad Hilton – founder of the world-famous Hilton Hotels chain, died on this day. His mother was a devout Catholic, and she raised her son that way, who remained religio...
On this day in 2000 the U.S. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, known for his role in the Vietnam War, died. Namely, Zumwalt was during this war the commander of Cruiser-Destroyer Flo...
On this day in 1776, an official decree abolishing torture in Austria, Bohemia, Galicia, and the Banate was issued. It was one of the measures of the so-called enlightene...
On this day the esteemed Count Folke Bernadotte, member of the Swedish royal family (the present-day Swedish royal dynasty originates from the Napoleon’s marshal Jean Ber...
On this day in 42 BC Julius Caesar was declared a god by the Roman Senate. It was the first time in history that a Roman citizen was officially deified. Interestingly, Ca...