On this day the richest woman in Europe – Anne of Brittany – married the future Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg. Interestingly, she was just 13 years old, and her husband...
On this day the famous Portuguese sailor and army commander – Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque – died. His role in world history was very important because he founded the fi...
On this day U.S. citizen Richard Paul Pavlick was arrested because of an assassination attempt on newly-elected President John F. Kennedy. It is interesting that, at the...
It is not widely known today that, at one time, Finland had a king. It happened in 1918, just at the end of the First World War; Finland seceded from the Russian Empire a...
An unusual incident occurred on this day in Baghdad, when Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush during a press confer...
At his estate Mount Vernon he owned a large house and a plantation, which were, of course, tended by slaves. In his will, Washington provided for all of his slaves to be...
On this day in 1913 died the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II – one of the most powerful rulers in Ethiopian history of the 19th and 20th century. He belonged to the fa...
On this day in 1941 Hitler declared war on the United States, although he had still not defeated either Britain or the Soviet Union. Namely, the Battle of Britain was alr...
