This day in 1942 marked the official beginning of the Manhattan Project, within which the first American nuclear weapons were made. The story of how the project got its n...
On 13 August 1792 Parisian revolutionaries arrested King Louis XVI and the royal family, including Queen Mary Antionette, the king’s son and heir to the throne, the king’...
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...
David Rice Atchison, the man who may have been the President of the USA for one day, was born precisely on this day in 1807. Namely, David Rice Atchison had served as Pre...
This day in 1965 marked what was probably the only case in history when a country became independent against the will of its people. Namely, on that day the Malay parlia...
On this day in 1902, King Edward VII’s coronation ceremony was held in London. It was the first coronation in the UK in 64 years. The reason for this long pause was the u...
On this day Yugoslav authorities forced an American C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft to land some 12 km from Kranj in Slovenia. That plane had allegedly entered Yugoslav...
On this day in 1806, Emperor Francis II (Empress Maria Theresa’s grandson) abdicated and thus abolished the Holy Roman Empire. It was the end of a thousand-year empire si...
