On this day, the United States became a colonial power when Spain ceded them the ownership of the Philippines. This was done through the so-called Treaty of Paris, by whi...
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the world’s most translated document. The Declaration was adopted on this day in t...
On this day, British King Edward VIII abdicated so he could marry the 40-year-old American woman Wallis Simpson. Edward was king not only of Britain, but also the whole o...
On this day in 1917, a Christian army occupied Jerusalem for the first time after it had been in Muslim hands for 673 years. Namely, the last time Jerusalem was a Christi...
The trial of German doctors from the World War II, who were accused of experimenting on humans and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia, began on this day. Among the...
On this day during the French Revolution, Madame du Barry – the famous mistress of the French King Louis XV – was guillotined. She was born as the daughter of a poor prov...
The young and beautiful Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle, the mistress of French King Louis XV, died on this day. Interestingly, as many as four of the Mailly-Nesle sisters wer...
Interestingly, the flag of the European Union was not originally designed for that organization, but the Council of Europe. It adopted a flag with 12 yellow stars on a bl...
