Adolf Eichmann was during World War II the SS-Obersturmbannführer responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. After the war ended, he managed to escap...
On this day in 1932 Paul von Hindenburg defeated his opponent Adolf Hitler in the presidential elections in Germany. This took place about a year before the Nazis took po...
On this day in 2010 occurred a Polish national tragedy, when the airplane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński crashed in Russia. Another 95 passengers and crew membe...
Human rights campaigner and Nobel laureate Martin Luther King was buried on this day in his hometown of Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia. He was killed five days earl...
On this day actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor in the Californian city Carmel-by-the-Sea. This city is located on the Pacific coast, 190 kilometers south of San Franc...
On this day in 1498 the French King Charles VIII, a member of the Capet-Valois dynasty, died. He led an active foreign policy and even invaded Italy in 1494. Namely, his...
On this day the most sinister institution of the French Revolution – the Committee of Public Safety (Comité de salut public) – was established. It was supposed to serve a...
On this day in 1933 the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certif...