Historical calendar

1920 - Turkey's Grand National Assembly is established in Ankara. The Assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and...

1910 - Mark Twain, 74, dies. Twain was an American writer, humorist, publisher, and lecturer. He was hailed as "the...

1898 - US President William McKinley signs a joint resolution in Congress declaring war on Spain, beginning the Spanish-American War....

1943 - During World War II in Poland, the Ghetto Uprising of Warsaw begins, as German troops enter the ghetto...

1921 - Born Nermin Falaski Vlora (Nermin Vlora - Falaschi) was an Albanian writer, intellectual and researcher, great-granddaughter of Ismail...

1895 - The Shimonoseki Treaty between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War,...

1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel. Quimby was an early...

1912 - A British passenger line RMS Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty...

1915 - Born in the Skënderbeg neighborhood of the city of Shkodra, Zef Mala, publicist, founder and chairman of the...

1941 - A non-aggression pact is signed between the USSR and Japan. This pact was a neutrality pact signed between...