On this day Japanese Field Marshal Shunroku Hata was born – one of only five of Imperial Japanese Army officers with a marshal’s rank during World War II. Ind...
This day in 1943 marked one of the most famous events in Italian history. On this day, the Italian King deposed Benito Mussolini, who had been the fascist Duce and the he...
On this day in 1936, the first nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War was established. This happened just a week after the beginning of the war, which was mo...
On this day the American troops in Iraq carried out a military operation in which they killed two sons of Saddam Hussein – Uday and Qusay. Uday was the older, at 39, and...
On this day in 1944, Colonel Count von Stauffenberg was executed in Berlin, along with other conspirators who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. It was Hitler’s swift...
On this day in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte achieved a military victory near the Egyptian pyramids not far from Cairo. It was his Egyptian expedition, during which he tried t...
On this day the Swedish army, led by the young King Charles XII, managed to defeat an army of Poles and Germans twice its size in Poland. It was an example of the great m...
On this day, Nazi Germany tested an aircraft with a revolutionary engine. Unlike the previous propeller-powered aircraft, the new Messerschmitt Me-262 had jet engines. A...
