The widely-known German company Siemens was established on this day in 1847. Its founders were Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske, and it was seated in Berlin, wh...
On this day in 1936, General Francisco Franco was publicly declared Generalissimo and Head of State (Jefe del Estado). This took place in Burgos, the historic capital of...
The major Nazi war criminals were sentenced on this day at the Nuremberg Trials. It is interesting that only 24 high-ranking Nazis were brought before the court. Three of...
On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong declared the founding of the current Chinese state. It was named the People’s Republic of China, and still bears the same name. This...
Mark Spitz managed to win only 7 of them in Munich. Phelps also holds the absolute record in the total number of Olympic golds in his career with 28 of them, 23 of which...
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...