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On February 6, 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with the Sultan of Johor that allowed the British to set up a trading port in Singapore laying the…
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Four decades after the Soviet Union held questionable elections to create a Communist Polish nation, members of the political opposition gathered with government officials in Round Table Talks on February…
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Decades after St. Bernardino di Siena opened the practice of burning “temptation-inducing” items to turn Catholic adherents back toward the faith, parishioners of Friar Girolamo Savonarola launched one of the…
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Dr. Josef, the SS physician who gained notoriety for his inhumane medical experimentation upon the inmates of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, died on February 7, 1979. Popularly known as…
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Throughout the course of human history, only a few authors will be graced with the recognition of their contribution to man’s vast literary tradition as a groundbreaking shift in storytelling.…
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February 8 1904 -Japanese torpedo attack at Port Arthur, begins the Russo-Japanese War
by Vishul MalikOn February 8, 1904, Japan launched a surprise attack on Russia in Port Arthur (in Manchuria, China). The attack announced the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War, one of the first…
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, the well-known Russian writer and philosopher, and author of the renowned novels Bratya Karamazovy (The Brothers Karamazov – 1880) and Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (Crime and Punishment –…
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It was on 9 February 1028 that Frank Frazetta was born in Brooklyn. As a noted fantasy and science fiction artist, Frank Frazetta was well-known for his work in paperback…
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The Cold War reached a new plateau at a military outpost far in the north of Russia on February 9, 1959: the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM),…
