On this day in 1905 the city of Las Vegas was founded in the U. S. state of Nevada. The name of the state and the city came from the Spanish language. Namely, Nevada mean...
On this day, in the U. S. state of Nevada, the City of Las Vegas was founded. The name of the state and the city came from Spanish language. Namely, Nevada means “snowy”...
The first line of the Moscow Metro was opened in the Soviet Union on this day in 1935. The first line of the Moscow Metro passed near the northern corner of the Kremlin....
The wife of Mao Tse-tung, known as Madame Mao in the West, died on this day in 1991. She used many names during her life due to her artistic career, and revolutionary eve...
This day marked the death of Carl Schurz, the first German-American to become a member of the U.S. Senate. He was born in the German town of Liblar not far from Cologne....
On this day in 1948, the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel was solemnly proclaimed in a museum in Tel Aviv, where a portrait of Theodor Herzl, the founde...
On this day, at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, an assassination attempt on Pope St. John Paul II took place, precisely on the anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady...
This day in 1948 marked the death of Kathleen Kennedy, the sister of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She was the fourth child in the family (John was the second child...
