The 35th annual Eurovision Song Contest (Eurovision) was held in Zagreb, Croatia on this day in 1990. The city was chosen since the Croatian band Riva won the previous Eu...
On this day in 1519, Lorenzo II de ‘Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence, died. Niccolò Machiavelli`s “The Prince” (Italian: Il Principe) was dedicated to h...
American media magnate and multimillionaire William Randolph Hearst was born on this day in 1863. He was probably one of the role models for the development of the lead c...
Leon Battista Alberti, probably the earliest example of a versatile Renaissance man, like the one Leonardo da Vinci later became, died on this day. Namely, Alberti was bo...
World Book Day is celebrated on this day because it was once thought that both Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616. However, while it was belei...
A celebration of the 50th birthday of Führer Adolf Hitler was held on this day in 1939. The day was declared a public holiday, while the largest military parade in the en...
On this day in 1986 Pope Saint John Paul II took a historic step when he, as the first pope in history, officially visited a Jewish synagogue. He visited the Great Synago...
The Stone of Destiny is the name for the famous stone on which Scottish kings were crowned. Weighing about 152 kg, its traditional place was in the monastery of Scone, wh...