On this day in the year 1771 Prince Ernest Augustus, who later became king of the German state of Hanover, was born. The Hanover dynasty ruled Britain since 1714, when Ge...
On this day in 1976, the Teton Dam in Idaho collapsed. It was a big disaster, which claimed fourteen human lives and killed about 13,000 head of cattle. It was a dam in t...
The rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu After the death of the powerful daimyo (a position similar to a high-ranking noble in Europe) Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598, Japan was governed b...
One of the most famous seducers in history died on this day at the advanced age of 73 years. He died in Bohemia, in the Duchcov Chateau, where he spent the last 13 years...
On this day Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, was shot in the center of London. It happened in front of the Dorchester Hotel, one of the most luxur...
On this day, a married couple of volcanologists – Katia and Maurice Krafft – were tragically killed when they were engulfed by pyroclastic flow during a volcanic eruption...
On this day in 2004 Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Princess Diana, died. After the tragic death of her daughter, Frances devoted her life to charitable activities within t...
On this day Wallace Hartley, a musician who became a legend as a band leader on the sinking Titanic, was born in 1878. Specifically, Hartley and his band continued to pla...