The U.S. President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor Richard Nixon on this day in 1974. That happened less than a month after Nixon had resigned the Presidency due to...
This day marked probably the biggest robbery in the history of piracy. The English pirate Henry Every, nicknamed “King of the Pirates” stole loot worth up to...
Dimitri Tsafendas, a South African citizen of mixed origin, stabbed him in chest and neck. Tsafendas’s father was a Greek sailor, and his mother was an African, so he was...
The Duke of Buccleuch, greatest landowner in the UK, died on this day in 2007. He owned some 110,000 hectares of land throughout Scotland and England. His full name and t...
According to legend, San Marino was founded by Marin, a stonecutter from the island of Rab in the Adriatic (modern Croatia). He left Rab during the time of Emperor Diocle...
This day in 1967 was an important event in Swedish history, and was marked as H Day (the “H” stands for “Högertrafik”, the Swedish word for “right-hand traffic”). One of...
The American War of Independence formally ended on this day in 1783. It lasted eight years, four months, two weeks and one day. The Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris on...
Communist leader Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of Vietnam on this day in 1945. This occurred soon after the Japanese capitulation at the end of World War II. Name...