Gestapo stands for GEheime STAatsPOlizei (secret state police) and was founded on this day in 1933, just three months after the Nazis came to power in Germany. The Gestap...
Napoleon Bonaparte allowed the return of the majority of emigrants to France on this day in 1802. Many people, especially the royalty, had left the country during the Fre...
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov invited American girl Samantha Smith to visit the USSR on this day in 1983. It was his response to a letter which the girl had sent him. She w...
Louis Alphonse, the Duke of Anjou, was born on this day in 1974. It is interesting that he is the present-day head of the famous dynasty of Capet, the most powerful dynas...
Princess Alice of Great Britain was born on this day. It is she who passed on hemophilia to the Russian imperial family. Namely, Alice was the daughter of the famous Quee...
The guillotine was used as a means of carrying out the death penalty for the first time in history on this day. That device was named after Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin,...
On this day the tiny Conch Republic, located in southern Florida, declared independence from the United States. It is located around the city of Key West, which is the so...
On this day in 1945, at the end of the World War II, an unusual incident occured and made Adolf Hitler remove his until-then closest associate Hermann Goering. Namely,...