On this day in 1936, the Italian Army entered the conquered capital of the Ethiopian Empire – Addis Ababa. This event finalized the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, one of...
Napoleon Bonaparte had been attempting to organize an invasion of India for a long time, intending to take it from the British. The Treaty of Finckenstein was signed on t...
The famous island of Rhodes (Rodos) was attacked on this day in 1912 by the Italian Army. This island is located only about 20 kilometers off the coast of present-day Tur...
The Pakistani military academy is located only 1.5 km away from the house in which Osama bin Laden was killed. Osama bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaeda terroris...
On this day, just one day after Hitler’s death, Hitler’s closest associate, the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, also decided to kill himself, together with his...
The miraculous military career of the famous Saint Joan of Arc began on this day. That girl of only 17 years came to lead the French army defending the city of Orleans. B...
On this day in 1945, Brazilian military units liberated the Italian town of Fornovo di Taro. World War II was coming to an end while the Brazilians were fighting on the A...
The famous assassin Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914, died on this day. This event led to the o...