On this day, in 2008, Indian Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, the first man in history who was awarded the rank of Indian field marshal, died. Sam Manekshaw was born in Amrit...
On this day, the grand coronation of Maria Theresa as the ruler of the Hungarian-Croatian kingdom was held. Since it was thought that women are not fit to govern Hungary...
On this day, in 1902, the Japanese imperial prince Chichibu was born. He was the younger brother of the famous Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Indeed, Prince Chichibu was the...
On this day in 1938, Ireland got its first president in history. His name was Douglas Hyde and he was a respected scholar of the Irish language (Gaelic). This old languag...
On this day in 1939 Siam was renamed Thailand, according to the decision of Plaek Phibunsongkhram. This dictator held the rank of field marshal. He also served as Prime M...
Walther Rathenau, one of the richest German citizens, inherited a vast fortune from his father, Emil Rathenau, founder and owner of the famous company AEG (Allgemeine Ele...
On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler personally accepted the surrender of France in World War II. He deliberately chose the forest at Compiègne as the location where the sur...
On this day, the bloody mass execution of 27 Czech noblemen and citizens happened in Prague as a punishment for the uprising they led against the Habsburg authorities in...