On this day in 1776, an official decree abolishing torture in Austria, Bohemia, Galicia, and the Banate was issued. It was one of the measures of the so-called enlightene...
On this day the esteemed Count Folke Bernadotte, member of the Swedish royal family (the present-day Swedish royal dynasty originates from the Napoleon’s marshal Jean Ber...
On this day in 42 BC Julius Caesar was declared a god by the Roman Senate. It was the first time in history that a Roman citizen was officially deified. Interestingly, Ca...
The anniversary of the date when euro notes and coins were introduced as means of payment is celebrated on this day. At first it was accepted by 12 states, but in the mea...
On this day in 1993, Czechoslovakia was divided into two republics – the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia into two independent republics – t...
On this day in 1889, North and South Dakota became U.S. States. It is interesting that these two states have the highest percentage of population of German origin in the...
The currently reigning king of Thailand – Bhumibol Adulyadej – was born on this day in 1927. He is also, according to the Forbes magazine, the richest monarch in the worl...
This day is often considered the beginning of the Tokugawa family’s reign over Japan. Thus began the so-called Tokugawa shogunate, a period that lasted a full 268 years,...