Italy and the wider world were deeply shocked on this day in 1978 when the former Italian prime minister,Aldo Moro, was kidnappedon the streets of Rome in a violent ambush that claimed the lives of his five bodyguards. The attack took place on Via Mario Fani, a few minutes from Signor M...
1/Jan/1881 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes 2/Jan/1947 Lord Bevin commented that with half of the population of beggars and thieves, India is ungovernable Nation 3/Jan/1925 Benito Mussolini announces he will become dictator of Italy 4/Ja
This Day, March 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z”L March 3 321: Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for honoring the sun as a day of rest.This was an attempt by Constantine to close the gap between pagans and Christianity and to...
can be heard from dark till bed time on Epps’ plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season,” Northup recalled. “To speak truthfully of Edwin Epps would be to say—he is a man in whose heart the qual...
This unusual church has a strange history. Gaudi was born in Spain in 1852. He had to work and study at the same time. He often missed classes because he had to work but one day he designed a very unusual show-case (陈列柜) for an exhibition in Paris. People began to give him ...
Herb Caen’s column debuted in the San FranciscoChronicle. It ran daily for nearly 60 years. He said, “One day if I go to heaven…..I’ll look around and say ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco’.” Libraries in 1939 ...
Ranchos in 1805 Topanga Malibu Sequit rancho was deeded, a 13,316-acre Spanish land grant in present day Los Angeles County. People identify Malibu with celebrities, billionaires and luxury estates, but the region was originally home to Chumash people. ...
The young couple meet for the first time on the day of the wedding. In Japan, too, arranged marriages still take place. But there things are organized in a different way. A girl wishes to find a hu sband, and the girls mother, or an aunt perhap s, approaches the m other of a ...
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group // Getty Images Marshall Field’s - Category: department store - Year founded: 1852 - Year defunct: 2006 - Lifetime: 154 years Marshall Field's, whose flagship was in Chicago, was an icon for the Windy City.Founded in 1868, the...
In fact, the state's top-selling booze is Black Velvet, according to the Idaho Statesman. Illinois: Jameson Irish Whiskey Leron Ligred // Shutterstock Illinois: Jameson Irish Whiskey With its Irish population and the yearly tradition of dyeing the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day, ...