Todays History

The Nazi eugenics begins with the enactment of the “Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring” that allowed for the compulsory sterilization of any…

The Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria takes lace.

The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village.

The eight-hour day becomes the law for workers in the Netherlands.

Boris Yeltsin takes up the office as the first elected President of Russia.

The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States.

Kim Jong-il begins becomes the supreme leader of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

A retrial of Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death her acquits

Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.