On this day: October 16, 1793 – Marie Antoinette is baptized
On the morning of the 16thher October 1793 Marie Antoinette, previously Queen…
On this day: October 17, 1931 – Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion
At the dawn of the 1930s, on the streets of Chicago, but…
On this day: October 18, 1979 – The Nobel Prize for Literature to Odysseus Elytis
In 1979, the Swedish Academy honored for the second time a Greek…
On this day: October 11, 1922 – The Moudania Armistice
After the collapse of the front and the occupation by Kemal's troops…
On this day: October 12, 1955 – The government of K. Karamanlis receives a vote of confidence from the Parliament
The manifestation of the illness of the prime minister and leader of…
On this day: October 14, 1964 – Nobel Peace Prize to Martin Luther King
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia,…
On this day: October 15, 1964 – N. Khrushchev is removed from the leadership of the USSR
“I'm old and tired. Let them fend for themselves. I did the…
On this day: September 30, 1962 – Race riots at the University of Mississippi
"Race Trouble Shakes America," read the front page of the "Daily" on…
On this day: October 1, 1946 – The Nuremberg Trials conclude
It was October 1, 1946 when the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg…
On this day: October 2, 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising ends
In the summer of 1944, Poland had been under German occupation for…
