On this day German scientist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a member of the famous family that produced a series of prominent German politicians and scientists, was born....
On this day in 1994, Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah of Jordan was born. He should become the King of Jordan in the future, as the successor of his father Abdullah II,...
On this day, in 1806, the British occupied Buenos Aires, the former Spanish colonial city in South America. Buenos Aires had great significance as the capital of Spanish...
On this day one of the best remembered events from the Croatian War of Independence took place in Osijek. A red Fiat with Osijek license plates was recklessly ran-over by...
On this day, in 2008, Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, the first man in history who was awarded the rank of Indian field marshal, died. Sam Manekshaw was born in Amrit...
On this day, in 1960, Madagascar, an island country along the African coast, gained its independence. It is interesting that Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in th...
On this day in 1943 Karl Landsteiner, the famous scientist responsible for the classification of blood groups, died. In 1930 Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Ph...
Since the establishment of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945, relations between the Communists and the Catholic Church were tense. The Archbishop of Za...