Mike Tyson grew up in New York City, in high-crime neighborhoods. He got in trouble as a boy, so that he was arrested 38 times by the age of 13. He never finished high sc...
On this day at 12:30 local time, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas. The first bullet hit him in the back of the neck, slightly damaged his...
Emperor and King Francis Joseph, ruler of the entire Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, died on this day in 1916. He died at the advanced age of 86 years. He was only 18 years of...
On this day in 1969, talks about returning the island of Okinawa to Japan were concluded. Namely, after World War II, Okinawa became part of U.S. territory. The Battle of...
On this day the American newspaper The Plain Dealer published pictures of the massacre in Vietnam committed by the U.S. military. The massacre took place in the village o...
On this day, six-and-a-half months after the end of World War II, the Nuremberg Trials started. Only the twenty highest-ranking German war criminals were tried (the other...
On this day the United States finally ended their blockade of Cuba, which marked the ending of one of the most dangerous episodes in the history of the Cold War. Indeed,...
One of the bloodiest episodes in the history of Russian emperors ended on this day. Namely, Tsar Ivan the Terrible, in a quarrel, killed his own son Ivan Ivanovich. The 2...
