Hitler’s chief of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller, was born on this day. Since the surname Müller (meaning “miller”) is very common in Germany, he was called the “Gestapo Mü...
On this day, when World War II was drawing to a close, fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was arrested while trying to escape to Switzerland. He was arrested by Italian c...
On this day the British Parliament passed a law that would cause a revolt among the population of the American colonies. Specifically, according to that law, the American...
After the end of World War II, plans existed to increase Dutch territory by 30 to 50 percent at the expense of Germany. On this day in 1949 the Netherlands annexed German...
On this day in 1900, a dramatic battle took place in the heart of the African continent, bordering the present state of Chad and Cameroon. It happened about a hundred ki...
On this day deadly poison gas was used en masse for the first time in the history of warfare. This happened during the Battle at the town of Ypres in northern France, dur...
On this day in 1944, for the first time in the history, a helicopter was involved in a military operation. This may indeed seem quite late, since the aircraft were used b...
The buildings were created so that they would, when looked at from the air, appear like ordinary houses, with pitched roofs, tiles, and even chimneys and windows. In real...