Historical calendar

1916 - Russian priest and Tsar adviser Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin is assassinated by a group of officers led by Prince...

1911 - Sun Yat Sen becomes interim President of the Republic of China. He officially takes office on January 1,...

1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which would later be...

1899 - Born in the lake town of Ohrid to the family of Sotir Gusho, Albanian poet, Lasgush Poradeci. In...

1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie launch radium isolation. They extracted the radium compound from uraninite and published the discovery...

1941 - During World War II, the Battle of Hong Kong ends, ending with the victory of Japanese troops, beginning...

1914 – During World War I, the "Christmas Truce" begins. This was a series of unofficial armistice holidays spread across...

1913 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve...

1894 - The Dreyfus case begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of high treason. It was a...

1879 - Joseph Stalin is born in Gori, Georgia. Stalin, was a Georgian politician and Soviet revolutionary who led the...