On this day in 1936, General Francisco Franco was publicly declared Generalissimo and Head of State (Jefe del Estado). This took place in Burgos, the historic capital of...
The major Nazi war criminals were sentenced on this day at the Nuremberg Trials. It is interesting that only 24 high-ranking Nazis were brought before the court. Three of...
On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong declared the founding of the current Chinese state. It was named the People’s Republic of China, and still bears the same name. This...
On this day in 1914 Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW1. This put the multinational Central European empire at war with the world’s greatest colonial power. Th...
On this day in 1658, Aurangzeb became the great mogul and the ruler of the mightiest empire in India. At one time, he was quite possibly the richest and most powerful rul...
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...