On this day the famous Battle of Lake Trasimene took place, in which the Carthaginian military commander Hannibal achieved one of the greatest victories over the Roman ar...
On this day in 1940, during World War II, the Italian troops launched their invasion of France. At the time, the Germans conquered almost the entire France, so Mussolini...
The defeat which the British experienced during a raid that began on this day is considered the toughest in the history of their navy. On that day, namely, Dutch admiral...
On this day one of the most famous battles in the entire world history took place. Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated once and for all on the battlefield near the Belgian to...
On this day in the year 1779 the Great Siege of Gibraltar, a strategic promontory on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, began. This invasion took place during t...
On this day, German troops occupied Paris. It was a great triumph for the Wehrmacht (the German Army), but also for Adolf Hitler personally because his occupied a metrop...
On this day Anne Frank wrote first sentences in her diary, which made her historically famous. She was given a diary precisely on this day, as a gift from her father for...
On this day in 1944, the last U.S. battleship was commissioned – USS Missouri. She was an Iowa-class battleship, the largest and most powerful battleships in American his...