The siege of Sarajevo was one of the longest and most grueling sieges in contemporary history, lasting 1,425 days The siege of Sarajevo was declared over on this d...
On this day began one of the most famous episodes in American history – the Battle of the Alamo. Alamo was a missionary town in Texas, defended by the Texans from the inc...
On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which Clint Eastwood made the film Flags of Our Fathers, was taken. Th...
The French landing on this day occurred in the town of Fishguard in Wales. It seems that the local peasants also rose up against the French troops. There is a legend that...
On this day U.S. bombers flew from England to Germany and on their way, allegedly by mistake, dropped bombs on the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede, and Deventer...
Approximately 110,000 people ended up in American internment camps, on the territory of the continental United States. Not many know today that the Americans estab...
St. Benedict of Nursia established Monte Cassino, one of the most famous Catholic monasteries in the world, in the 6th century. In February 1944 the Allied forces were pe...
The British commander, General Arthur Percival, surrendered himself and 80,000 surviving British soldiers. Prime Minister Churchill called it the “worst disaster” in Brit...