On this day in 1609, the famous scientist Galileo Galilei presented his version of the telescope to the Venetian doge and other senior officials in Venice. The telescope...
On this day in 1989, a raid was conducted on the pirate Radio Caroline station in the North Sea. That station had been active since 1964, and had transmitted a signal fro...
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German princess after whom the city of Adelaide in South Australia is named, was born on this day in 1792. Adelaide is today a city with o...
On this day the famous South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung, the later Nobel laureate and president, was kidnapped. At that time he was the leader of the opposition agai...
On this day in 1526, Juan Sebastián Elcano, the leader of the first expedition to sail around the world in human history, died. Namely, the famous expedition, which was i...
On this day in 1944, the largest merchant ship convoy in World War II crossed the Atlantic Ocean and entered British waters. The convoy bore the designation HX-300 becaus...
