A famous scandal occurred in medieval France on this day in 1451. Namley, King Charles VII ordered the arrest of Jacques Coeur – one of the richest and most powerf...
On this day in 1969, President Nixon unexpectedly visited Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It was his first foreign tour since he became president of the United States. He...
On this day, in 1936, Elizabeth Dole, the wife of U.S. politician Bob Dole, was born. Interestingly, both Elizabeth Dole and Bob Dole were U.S. senators. In fact, Bob Dol...
On this day, during the American Civil War, Belle Boyd, a young woman who worked as a spy for the Confederacy, was arrested. She was born in Southern Virginia, and becam...
On this day in 2005 the discovery of celestial bodies called Eris and Makemake was announced. These bodies are located beyond Pluto, which was at that time considered to...
On this day in 1981, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. It was a world popular media event watched by...
On this day the American President Dwight David Eisenhower signed the document establishing NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). This agency was suppose...
On this day in 1945, an American bomber B-25 Mitchell lost its way in the thick fog and crashed into the Empire State Building in New York. It caused the death of 14 peop...