On this day in 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in the Barents Sea. It was a very large submarine, being 154 meters long – equivalent to two Boeing 74...
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...
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...
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 1969, President Nixon unexpectedly visited Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It was his first foreign tour since he became president of the United States. He...
On this day, in 1936, Elizabeth Dole, the wife of U.S. politician Bob Dole, was born. Interestingly, both Elizabeth Dole and Bob Dole were U.S. senators. In fact, Bob Dol...
On this day, during the American Civil War, Belle Boyd, a young woman who worked as a spy for the Confederacy, was arrested. She was born in Southern Virginia, and becam...
On this day in 2005 the discovery of celestial bodies called Eris and Makemake was announced. These bodies are located beyond Pluto, which was at that time considered to...
