Siena lost its independence and ended up under the rule of Florence i.e. Tuscany because King Philip II of Spain gave it to the Medicis due to his large monetary debt. On...
On this day the disastrous American invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba began. Namely, the Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de Cochinos) is a marine bay on the southern coast...
The Soviet forces that attacked Germany from the east consisted of 26 armies and 2.5 million soldiers. The final Soviet attack on Berlin began on this day in 1945....
On this day the American troops occupied what was probably the most “elite” Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. The camp was called Oflag IV-C, where the Oflag is the a...
On this day in 1892 the German airman Theo Osterkamp was born. He is particularly interesting because he flew military aircraft in both World Wars. Indeed, Osterkamp shot...
Robert Guiscard was the son of the Norman nobleman Tancred de Hauteville from northern France. Troops under Robert Guiscard took the city of Bari on this date in 1071. Th...
Luftwaffe aircraft bombed the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland for the first time on this day in 1941. It was Tuesday after the Easter, and more than 200 Luftwaffe bom...
A battle took place in Germany on this day, which resulted in the victory of the Swedish army, and allowed it to penetrate into Bohemia (today the Czech Republic). This o...