Walther Rathenau, one of the richest German citizens, inherited a vast fortune from his father, Emil Rathenau, founder and owner of the famous company AEG (Allgemeine Ele...
On this day, in 1767, the French geographer and translator Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès was born. According to his year of birth, he was almost the same age as Napoleon Bo...
On this day an audio tape with a conversation between President Nixon and his White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman was recorded in the Oval Office of the White House...
On this day, after France signed the surrender to his army, Hitler triumphantly visited conquered Paris. He landed at the Paris airport and then headed to the center of...
On this day, in 1942, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft mistakenly landed on a runway in Great Britain instead of returning to the area under German control. A...
On this day, in 1661, the marriage contract on behalf of the British King Charles II and the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza was signed. With this contract Brit...
On this day the tradition of the Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece was restored. Namely, on that day in 1894 in the Swiss city of Lausanne, International Olympic...
On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler personally accepted the surrender of France in World War II. He deliberately chose the forest at Compiègne as the location where the sur...