On this day the Kingdom of Yugoslavia joined the Tripartite Pact, whose membership included Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. The treaty was signed by repr...
On this day Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass at a chapel in a hospital called “La Divina Providencia” in San Salvador. Such an unprecedente...
On this day in 1849, the Austrian Army achieved one of its most famous victories in the 19th century. Namely, it defeated the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Battl...
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, a very interesting person with an unusual fate, died on this day in 1747. He was born into an aristocratic French family. He became a soldie...
Klaipėda (Memel) is today the third-largest city in Lithuania and the country’s largest port. It was particularly important in Hitler’s time since one-third of the countr...
On this day the German Army secretly took positions in Hungary. Namely, Hungary was, since before World War II, a signatory of the so-called Tripartite Pact, and an ally...
On this day in 1945, when Allied troops penetrated into German territory, Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of German roads and industrial plants to resist the attacke...
The last major eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy began on this day in 1944. It is interesting that this was precisely the time of much heavy fighting between German and...