A famous scandal occurred in medieval France on this day in 1451. Namley, King Charles VII ordered the arrest of Jacques Coeur – one of the richest and most powerf...
On this day in 54 BC, Aurelia Cotta, the mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar, died. She was born in the year 120 BC and married Caesar’s father, who was a Ro...
In Vietnam, Nixon stayed only five and a half hours and met with South Vietnamese President Nguyenov Van Thieu. On July 30, 1969, President Nixon paid an unexpected visit...
Interestingly, Marilyn Monroe only found out about her half-sister’s existence at the age of 19. On July 30, 1919, Berniece Baker, half-sister of actress Marilyn Monroe,...
An extensive investigation was soon conducted, involving the FBI as the executive U.S. federal institution to conduct criminal investigations. Former American union leade...
Schwarzenegger has never lost his strong Austrian accent by which, apart from his massive body structure, he is particularly recognizable. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Ameri...
His patron was the Florentine Medici family. Italian painter, builder and art writer Giorgio Vasari was born on July 30, 1511 in Arezzo. He acquired a humanistic educatio...
Alfred was the younger son of Britain’s Queen Victoria, who proclaimed him Duke of Edinburgh. Much later, only in the 50th year of his life, he became Alfred and th...