On this day, in 2004, the American General George S. Patton IV, son of the famous World War II General George Patton, died. It was a family with a long military traditio...
On this day one of the best remembered events from the Croatian War of Independence took place in Osijek. A red Fiat with Osijek license plates was recklessly ran-over by...
On this day, after France signed the surrender to his army, Hitler triumphantly visited conquered Paris. He landed at the Paris airport and then headed to the center of...
On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler personally accepted the surrender of France in World War II. He deliberately chose the forest at Compiègne as the location where the sur...
On this day Operation Barbarossa, the Axis attack on the Soviet Union, was set in motion. More than three million members of the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) and troop...
On this day, the most famous Croatian victory over the Ottoman Turks occurred near Sisak. By this time, the Turks were extensively ravaging Croatian territory, mounting r...
On this day in 1942, German General Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, as an reward for successfully capturing the town of Tobruk in what is today Li...
On this day, the bloody mass execution of 27 Czech noblemen and citizens happened in Prague as a punishment for the uprising they led against the Habsburg authorities in...