On this day in 1946, King of Thailand Ananda Mahidol was found dead in his bed with a bullet hole in his head. This case is among the greatest mysteries of the 20th centu...
On this day in 1984, Andrea Casiraghi, the probable future Prince of Monaco, was born. To be precise, the current Prince Albert has no legitimate offspring, so his logica...
On this day the famous Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy was ratified, thus forming the Vatican City State. In earlier centuries, when Italy ha...
On this day in 1654, French King Louis XIV, also known by the nickname the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was crowned. Louis XIV was one of the most influential kings in Frenc...
On this day in 1808, Napoleon’s brother Joseph Bonaparte was crowned King of Spain in Madrid. It was the highest honor that Napoleon had secured for any of the members of...
On this day in 1970 Tonga gained full independence from the British. Today, Tonga is the smallest independent kingdom in the world, measuring 748 square kilometers. All o...
On this day Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, was shot in the center of London. It happened in front of the Dorchester Hotel, one of the most luxur...
An incident occurred on this day in 1995: an American F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet, was shot down over Bosnia. The movie “Behind Enemy Lines” is loosely based upon ex...