This day marked the founding of the Spanish colonial city of Manila in the Philippines. The Philippines had been a Spanish colony for more than 300 years, and was even na...
On this day in 1982 Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” airliner flew into a volcanic cloud above Indonesia, which caused all four of its engines to flame out. The aircraf...
On this day an audio tape with a conversation between President Nixon and his White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman was recorded in the Oval Office of the White House...
On this day, after France signed the surrender to his army, Hitler triumphantly visited conquered Paris. He landed at the Paris airport and then headed to the center of...
On this day, in 1942, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft mistakenly landed on a runway in Great Britain instead of returning to the area under German control. A...
On this day, in 1661, the marriage contract on behalf of the British King Charles II and the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza was signed. With this contract Brit...
On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler personally accepted the surrender of France in World War II. He deliberately chose the forest at Compiègne as the location where the sur...
On this day Operation Barbarossa, the Axis attack on the Soviet Union, was set in motion. More than three million members of the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) and troop...