The Japanese Yamato was the largest battleship ever built. 263 meters long and displacing 71,659 tons, she was armed with the heaviest artillery ever mounted on a vessel...
Military units of Hitler’s Third Reich and its allies invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on this day, after Yugoslavia had refused to join their Tripartite Pact. The...
On this day the siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska began. The siege would last for more than 44 months, more precisely 1,425 days (until 29 February 1996),...
On this day the Soviet occupation troops finally left the Danish island of Bornholm. It is not widely known that the Soviets, for some time after World War II, kept that...
On this day in 1884 Bolivia signed a peace treaty with neighboring Chile, in which it lost its access to the sea. Namely, Bolivia earlier had access to the sea near the t...
On this day in 1939 the rule of the last king of Iraq (in the history of this country) began. His name was Faisal II, and it is particularly interesting that he was only...
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched an offensive with the aim of conquering Vienna. Soviet troops were approaching from the south after they had conquered W...
On this day Francisco Franco declared victory and the end of the Civil War in Spain. It is interesting that the United States recognized Franco’s government on that same...