On this day in 1941 the German army was advancing through the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. On their way they came upon the city Slonim in present-day Belarus...
On this day in 1954 German Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist died in captivity in the Soviet Union. He was the highest-ranking military commander of Nazi Germany...
On the night of this day in 1988, three skinheads, Ken “Death” Mieske, Kyle Brewster, and Steve Strasser drove around Portland, Oregon, with their girlfriends. They come...
A really unusual event occurred on this day back in 764. Namely, Tibetan military forces occupied the huge capital of China – Chang’an – once the largest city in the enti...
Back in the 19th century, there were different opinions of the territory on which European Jews could relocate. Relocation was, on one hand, sought by anti-Semites trying...
World War I officially ended on this 11th day of the 11th month, at 11 a.m. The armistice was signed on this day in the famous railway carriage in the French town of Comp...
American human rights activist Martin Luther King, Sr. died on this day in 1984. He was the father of the famed Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. The elder King...
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, one of the people most responsible for starting World War I, was born on this day. He was namely the Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General St...