The so called "miracle" of Dunkirk was completed on this day, June 4, 1940, with the evacuation of over 330,000...
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In 1934 in Britain there were about one and a half million cars on the roads, but despite the relatively...
As he lay dying on this day, May 30, 1778, the great French writer Voltaire noticed that the lamp next...
The pro-democracy demonstrations that filled the streets of Hong Kong last year have decreased in both number and intensity, because...
Even though it sounds incredibile, the Vietnamese province of An Giang, in the Mekong Delta, is less known for its...
Few days ago, authorities in Cairo, Egypt, have come under fire for approving the construction of an “essential” highway bridge...
Strange but true, "A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony" seems to be one...
Three-year-old June Devaney, recovering from pneumonia at Queen’s Park Hospital in Blackburn, England, is kidnapped from her bed on this...
If you’re the kind of person who thinks that drinking Coke every day is a sure way to kill yourself,...
Thomas Blood tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London on this day, May 9, 1671. He...
While most regular restaurants and cafes around the world remain closed until further notice because of the Covid-19 pandemic, one...
The Channel Tunnel, or “Chunnel,” linking England and France,was officially opened on this day, in a ceremony presided over by...
On this day, a suitcase holding what is later identified as the partial remains of William McGuire, a 39-year-old Navy...
“Fake news”, very popular and read also on current days, expecially on social networkd and in a large number in...
"Hitler's Diaries Discovered!" screamed enthusiast the front page of the German magazine Stern on this day while, more conservatively, the...
According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where...
Historic records show that on this day, April 29, 1887, Georges Bouton “won the world’s first motor race”. But it...
Lucrezia Borgia, the illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (who was to become Pope Alexander VI) was born on this...
Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud, the woman behind one of London’s most famous tourist attractions, died on this day, April 16...
All we know that, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the passenger liner Titanic hit an iceberg...
German pilot Hermann Köhl, Irish aviator James Fitzmaurice and Baron Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, the expedition’s financier, completed on...
Nowadays, the performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah oratorio at Christmas time is a tradition almost as deeply entrenched as...
Eggs, rabbits...we already know what these symbols mean. Also the lamb is one of the most prominent symbols of Easter....
Among scientists, Thomas Johnson is known as “the father of British field botany”. But, more confidentially, he is celebrated as...
Nagging wives needed to be careful in 19th Century England, for, as Joseph Thompson did, her husband might put her...
Today, on April 3, a regular computer would probably do the job. But back in 1957, when Norwich City Council...
First there was an explosion, then a puff of smoke, and then, on this day, April 2, 1887 the first...
On this day, March 30, 1282 Sicilians decided that they had had enough and in a brutal uprising known as...
Sir George Gilbert Scott (in Photo), the English architect who designed the Albert Memorial, located in London's Hyde Park, died...
As with the legendary elephants' graveyard, ships go to die at Rossville on Staten Island, although this wasn’t always the...
