Sergei Witte, the first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire, was born on this day in 1849. He became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1905. This position corr...
On this day one of the most fateful assassinations throughout world history occurred. Specifically, the Sarajevo assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand pr...
On this day a scandalous boxing match between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield took place, in which Tyson bit his opponent and tore a piece of his ear with his teeth. Th...
On this day in 1794 the renowned statesman Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rietberg died. He was important because he was the State Chancellor (Staatskanzler) in Vienna during the r...
On this day, in 2008, Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, the first man in history who was awarded the rank of Indian field marshal, died. Sam Manekshaw was born in Amrit...
On this day, in 1960, Madagascar, an island country along the African coast, gained its independence. It is interesting that Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in th...
On this day in 1943 Karl Landsteiner, the famous scientist responsible for the classification of blood groups, died. In 1930 Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Ph...
Since the establishment of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945, relations between the Communists and the Catholic Church were tense. The Archbishop of Za...