In the late '60s, the chemist and physicist, Dr. Gordon E. Moore, and the co-inventor of the integrated circuit, Robert N. Noyce departe...

Three years into the Great War, anti-German feeling was running high in Britain. To appeal to nationalist sentiment King George V decided to...

In November 1656, King Karl X Gustav of Sweden signed two charters creating two private banks under the directorship of Johan Palmstruch, a ...

On July 15th 1931, Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo - better known as Kid Chocolate or the Cuban Bon Bon - knocked out Benny Bass in the seventh rou...

In June 1790, the French National Assembly approved the Paris Commune's proposition that a celebration be held to mark the anniversary o...