Historical calendar

1927 - The Treaty of Jeddah is signed, in which the United Kingdom recognizes King Ibn Saud's sovereignty over the...

1917 - The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded. The club has won a record 26 league titles, 12...

1911 - Gustav Mahler, 51, dies. Mahler, was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his...

1940 - Nazi Germany invades and occupies the Belgian capital, Brussels, during World War II. The German occupation of Belgium...

1916 - The United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Third French Republic sign the Sykes-Picot Secret War Agreement, which separates former...

1937 - Count Philip Snowden dies at the age of 72. Snowden was a British politician. A strong speaker, he...

1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" is published. "Mrs. Dalloway" is a novel that details the day in the...

1917 - Three children report the first appearance of Our Lady of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal. Mrs. Fatima is the...

1884 - Bedrich Smetana dies at the age of 60. Smetana, was a Czech composer who began developing a musical...

1943 - During World War II, US troops invade the Aleutian island of Attu in an attempt to oust Japanese...