1946 - An Israeli secret organization, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the site of a civilian...

1904 - Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 km / h hurdle on the...

1926 - Felix Dzerzhinsky dies at the age of 48. Dzerzhinsky was one of the first Bolshevik officials. Dzerzhinsky headed...

1903 - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France. The 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race,...

1918 - Lindi Nelson Mandela. He was the president of South Africa and a freedom fighter who fought against racial...

1912 - Henry Poincaré dies at the age of 58. Poincaré, was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer and philosopher...

1945 - During the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear...

1904 - Anton Chekhov dies at the age of 44. Chekhov, was a Russian playwright and short story writer who...

1900 - Eight-Alliance armies capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising...

1866 - Born in Aká, Murad bej Toptani, patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence of Albania, Albanian poet and...