Historical calendar

1896 - Born in Byalistok, Dziga Vertov. Vertov was a film director, documentary, news director, and a Russian cinema theorist....

1920 - Shaban Demiraj, a well-known Albanian linguist, albanologist and academic, is born in Vlora. He was the president of...

1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the first incandescent flame to the public in Menlo Park, New Jersey. The first successful...

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...