On this day in 1942, German General Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, as an reward for successfully capturing the town of Tobruk in what is today Li...
On this day in 1535, Cardinal St. John Fisher was beheaded in London. He was a Catholic Bishop of Rochester in England and was executed during the reign of King Henry VII...
On this day in 1964, a hate crime occurred that shocked the American public. Conflict between the Ku-Klux-Klan and civil rights activists, who were attempting to register...
On this day, the bloody mass execution of 27 Czech noblemen and citizens happened in Prague as a punishment for the uprising they led against the Habsburg authorities in...
On this day, the famous Russian polar expedition set sail from the former imperial capital Saint Petersburg. The ship was named Zarya (which is Russian for Dawn) and was...
On this day, in 1782, the design of the Great Seal of the United States was adopted by the US Congress. The seal today appears on the US one dollar bill. The seal greatly...
On this day, back in 1819, a steamship crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Of course, in those days, it was a great sensation, and is still interesting and unu...
On this day in 1940, during World War II, the Italian troops launched their invasion of France. At the time, the Germans conquered almost the entire France, so Mussolini...