At a meeting that was to represent a diplomatic meeting between the Dauphin and Duke Ivan the Fearless, Dauphin’s men killed the Duke. On September 10, 1419, John t...
The Austrian Empress and Croatian-Hungarian Queen Elizabeth, better known as Sisi, was the wife of Emperor Francis Joseph I and a favorite of the public. She was killed o...
Benigno Aquino, as a political opponent of Marcos, was in exile in the US for 3 years. August 21 is a national holiday in the Philippines in mourning for the assassinatio...
The war situation at the time of Churchill’s speech of 20 August 1940 seemed desperate as the German air force was attacking Great Britain. On August 20, 1940, Brit...
On August 20, 1833, Benjamin Harrison was born, a politician who became the 23rd President of the United States. Interestingly, his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, w...
On August 19, 1991, an attempted coup began in the USSR, organized by a group of hardliners with the aim of maintaining the old Soviet order. The group was led by eight h...
Pascal was buried in the late Parisian church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, located near the Sorbonne. On August 19, 1662, the French scientist and Christian thinker Blaise P...
Clinton grew up in a period of racial segregation in the American South. Interestingly, in addition to Bill Clinton, musician Johhny Cash was born in southern Arkansas. O...
