Tanzania is one of the greatest countries in the world according to the number of natural landmarks. This day in 1964 marked the founding of Tanzania, which was formed by...
The final round of the 1925 presidential elections was held in Germany on this day, where for the first time in the history the German President was directly elected. As...
The Library of Congress claims it is the largest in the world with 160 million titles and 1350 km of shelves. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. was founded on t...
The Spanish right-wing politician Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was born on this day. He was the founder of the Spanish Falange, a right-wing party with fascist characteri...
At the time when Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to invade the Russian Empire, it was so vast that it founded colonies in California and on Hawaii. On this day the Russi...
Spanish colonizers named today’s capital of Argentina after the Sardinian shrine “Santa María del Buen Aire”. What did the Spaniards have to do with a shrine located on a...
Conrad Hilton – founder of the world-famous Hilton Hotels chain, died on this day. His mother was a devout Catholic, and she raised her son that way, who remained religio...
South African Orange Province, where he was born, was at that time an autonomous Boer State (Boers are descendants of Dutch immigrants in the southern part of Africa). On...