On this day, in 1737, Gian Gastone Medici, the last male descendant of the famous Medici dynasty died. This dynasty ruled Firenze since the late Middle Ages, and was once...
On this day Goran Ivanišević achieved the greatest success in the history of Croatian tennis, winning the prestigious Wimbledon tournament in the UK. In the finals on th...
On this day one of the most shameful episodes in the entire history of Croatia happened. King Ladislaus of Naples sold his rights to Dalmatia to the Republic of Venice fo...
On this day in 1900, about 45 Christian missionaries and other Christians, including children, were executed in the city of Taiyuan, located in northern China, several hu...
On this day the North Korean communist leader Kim Il-sung died. The cause of death was a heart attack. Kim Il-sung was already at an advanced age of 82 and for some time...
On this day the colony of Rhode Island (the smallest state in the USA) received its official charter granted by British King Charles II from the House of Stuart. Most pe...
The famous writer Ernest Hemingway, as a young man, accepted the invitation for recruitment organized by the American Red Cross during World War I. He became an ambulanc...
On this day British politician Joseph Chamberlain, who established a dynasty of the United Kingdom’s ministers, was born. In fact, besides being a minister himself, both...