On this day the dramatic attack on Greenpeace’s famous ship Rainbow Warrior was carried out by French secret agents. The ship was anchored in the New Zealand port of Auck...
On this day the North Korean communist leader Kim Il-sung died. The cause of death was a heart attack. Kim Il-sung was already at an advanced age of 82 and for some time...
On this day the colony of Rhode Island (the smallest state in the USA) received its official charter granted by British King Charles II from the House of Stuart. Most pe...
On this day British politician Joseph Chamberlain, who established a dynasty of the United Kingdom’s ministers, was born. In fact, besides being a minister himself, both...
On this day one of the most famous episodes in the history of Nazism took place. Namely, Hitler purged the Nazi Party of his competitors. The so-called “brownshirt...
On this day died the mighty King Alfonso VI, nicknamed the Brave (El Bravo). He was the ruler of Castile, León, Galicia and Portugal, and took the pompous title of...
On this day one of the most fateful assassinations throughout world history occurred. Specifically, the Sarajevo assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand pr...
On this day in 1794 the renowned statesman Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rietberg died. He was important because he was the State Chancellor (Staatskanzler) in Vienna during the r...
