Serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire on this day in 1861. Around 23 million people thus gained their freedom. The declaration of the abolishment of serfdom was ena...
This date in 1908 marked the death of John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow and first Governor-General of Australia. That post is still active today, and actually denotes the...
One of the most controversial murders in history happened on this day. An unknown person killed Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme when one evening he was returning home f...
Napoleon Bonaparte was imprisoned on Elba when the allies defeated him for the first time and deposed him from the throne. Elba was actually quite a mild form of impriso...
It is curious that Adolf Hitler received German citizenship only 11 months before becoming chancellor of the same state. Namely, Hitler was not born in Germany, but in th...
On this day the right-wing Israeli Jew Baruch Goldstein killed 29 and wounded 125 Muslims in a mosque in Jerusalem. Born in New York, Goldstein moved to Israel at the age...
On this day Argentine presidential candidate Juan Peron won the election, while at the same time the parliamentary elections were won by his Labor Party (Partido Laborist...
On this day the German Nazi Party held its first assembly under the Nazi name in a Munich brewery Staatliches Hofbräuhaus. It was formerly a small party named German Work...