His wife supported him during the scandal, and she even told NBC that it was all a big right-wing conspiracy against her husband. On August 17, 1998, US President Bill Cl...
On this day in 1914 Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW1. This put the multinational Central European empire at war with the world’s greatest colonial power. Th...
This day in 1689 marked the death of Blessed Pope Innocent XI, one of the popes from the Baroque period. His birth name was Benedetto Odescalchi, and he came from a disti...
The famous work which is the legacy of St. Ignatius are his famous Spiritual Exercises, which are used today as a means of meditation even by non-Catholics. On July 31, 1...
Maximilian married in the Spanish city of Valladolid his close cousin Maria of Habsburg, sister of King Philip II of Spain. On July 31, 1527, Maximilian II was born. Habs...
On this day in 1777, Marquis de La Fayette, a French nobleman, became a U.S. general in the War of Independence. The rank of general was awarded to him by the American Co...
On this day in 1658, Aurangzeb became the great mogul and the ruler of the mightiest empire in India. At one time, he was quite possibly the richest and most powerful rul...
On this day the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying his military plane on a reconnaissance mission during World War II....