This day in 1942 marked the official beginning of the Manhattan Project, within which the first American nuclear weapons were made. The story of how the project got its n...
On this day in 1918, the BMW company was registered as a joint stock company. The abbreviation BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works). The company...
On 13 August 1792 Parisian revolutionaries arrested King Louis XVI and the royal family, including Queen Mary Antionette, the king’s son and heir to the throne, the king’...
Famous Italian businessman Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of FIAT, was born on this day in 1866. Interestingly, he was born near the town of Pinerolo, known for being the...
David Rice Atchison, the man who may have been the President of the USA for one day, was born precisely on this day in 1807. Namely, David Rice Atchison had served as Pre...
On this day in 1596 Hamnet Shakespeare, the only son of the famous William Shakespeare, was buried on this day. He was probably named after Hamnet Sadler, a family friend...
According to the Maya Calendar, the world we live was created on this day in 3114 B.C. In order to keep track of the date, the Maya people used a sophisticated calendar b...
On this day in 2003, an astronaut was for the first time married in space. Yuri Malenchenko, a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent married Ekaterina Dimitrieva. The We...