On this day in 1741, the famous Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi died. He belonged to the Baroque period in music history and today is best known for his series The Four...
On this day in 1694, the Bank of England was established. It is the central bank of the UK, which conducts the country’s monetary policy and issues British Pounds b...
On this day in 1865, a group of 153 settlers from Wales arrived in Argentina. They landed with a ship in the harbor called Puerto Madryn in Patagonia. These were mostly w...
On this day in 1940, the first Bugs Bunny cartoon was premiered. It was titled A Wild Hare, and the famous line “What’s up, Doc?” was then used for the...
On this day the important American federal investigating agency FBI was established. Interestingly, it was founded by none other than one Prince of Napoleon’s Bonaparte...
On this day in 1945, parts of the U.S. nuclear bomb, which would be thrown on Hiroshima, were brought to Tinian Island by the American cruiser USS Indianapolis. It was th...
The former Greek King Otto died in the German city of Bamberg on this day in 1867. He was the first king of Greece in Modern Times. It is interesting to note that he beca...
On this day Archduke Maximilian Francis, Archbishop and Elector Spiritual of Cologne, died. He was the youngest child of the famous Empress Maria Theresa, meaning that he...