On this day in 2007, the last King of Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir Shah died. He was born in Kabul in 1914, and was the son of the Afghan King Muhammad Nadir Shah. He asc...
On this day in 1936, the first nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War was established. This happened just a week after the beginning of the war, which was mo...
On this day, in 1773, Sir Thomas Brisbane, the British general who played a role in Australian history, was born. Namely, Sir Thomas Brisbane was Governor of the British...
On this day the American Ford Motor Company sold its first car. The vehicle was named Ford Model A and it was sold to Ernst Pfennig from Chicago. Model A was a two-seate...
On this day in 1099, Godfrey of Bouillon was elected as the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. This happened shortly after the Crusaders captured Jerusalem from the...
On this day the American troops in Iraq carried out a military operation in which they killed two sons of Saddam Hussein – Uday and Qusay. Uday was the older, at 39, and...
On this day in 1934, notorious criminal John Dillinger was mortally wounded in Chicago. He was one of the most famous members of the underground during the Great Depressi...
On this day the only legitimate descendant of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, his son Napoleon II, born by the Austrian Archduchess Maria Luisa, died. Napoleon II was born in...