On this day in 459 St. Simeon Stylites, a well-known ascetic, died. He reportedly spent the last 37 or 39 years living on a small platform on the top of a pillar (the sai...
Gaddafi was born among the Bedouins in the desert. In his youth, he enrolled in the Libyan military academy, and also attended military schools in the UK, didn’t attain t...
The President of the Republic of Albania, Ahmet Zogu, proclaimed himself King Zogu I of Albania on this day in 1928. Three years earlier, he had been elected the Presiden...
On this day in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died. Her car was badly damaged in the Parisian underpass. Dodi Fayed was with Diana when the accident occurred. He was Moh...
On this day in 1879, Yoshihito, the Japanese emperor who reigned from 1912 to 1926, was born. He was known as the 123rd Emperor of Japan. It is interesting to note that Y...
On this day in 1422 English King Henry V of the Plantagenet-Lancaster dynasty died unexpectedly, at the height of his power. The king was only 36 years old, and had he li...
Zionism is known as movement whose goal was the establishment of an independent Jewish state. The First Zionist Congress was held from 29 to 31 August 1897 in the Swiss c...
The Russian capital of St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd on this day in 1914. The Russian Empire wanted to avoid the German name of its capital (the name of Saint Pete...