MessageToEagle.com- On February 13, 1578, Tycho Brahe first sketches of “Tychonic system”, a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System. Tycho Brahe
MessageToEagle.com – On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled “The Sage of Poetry” was born in today’s Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and
MessageToEagle.com – On 11th February, 660 AD a very special holiday is celebrated in Japan. It is the so-called National Foundation Day that commemorates the creation of the nation and is
MessageToEagle.com – On Tuesday February 10, 1355, the so-called St Scholastica Day Riot took place in Oxford, England. There are conflicting reports on what exactly happened in what is
MessageToEagle.com – On February 9, 1555, Master John Hooper, bishop of Worcester and Gloucester is burnt at the stake for the defence of the gospel at Gloucester. At 8 a.m.,
MessageToEagle.com – On the night of 8/9 February 1855, a strange phenomenon – the so-called ‘Devil’s Footprints’- occurred around the Exe Estuary in East Devon and South Devon, England. The trails of hoof-like marks appeared
MessageToEagle.com – In the early morning of 7 February 1920, in Irkutsk, Siberia, the Bolsheviks executed Aleksandr Kolchak, one of the leaders of the White Movement and the so-called
MessageToEagle.com – After the defeat of the French fleet at Trafalgar on October 20, 1805, the British Admiralty pulled back its close blockade of the primary French naval base
MessagetoEagle.com – On February 5, 62 AD Pompeii, an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, was at the epicenter of an earthquake. The earthquake was approximately 7.5 in magnitude and may
MessageToEagle.com – On Feb 4, 960, an important political and historical event took place in China. The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiated the Song
MessageToEagle.com – On February 3, 1706, the Battle of Fraustadt was fought on February 3, 1706 (Swedish calendar) between Sweden and Saxony-Poland and their Russian allies near Fraustadt (present-day
MessageToEagle.com – On the 2nd February 1461, the battle was fought somewhere in the vicinity of Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire, at a site not far from the border with Wales.
MessageToEagle.com – On February 1, 1662, the Chinese general Koxinga seized the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. Koxinga (1624-1662) was a Chinese military leader who is by many regarded
MessageToEagle.com – Reginald Walter Bonham was born on January 31, 1906 in St. Neots, Huntingtonshire, England. Bonham was the most famous British blind player ever. He was known for
MessageToEagle.com – On 30 January 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, British Army paratroopers shot 26 unarmed civilians, all Northern Catholics, during a protest march against internment. This tragical event
MessageTo Eagle.com – On January 29-30, 1943, the naval Battle of Rennell Island was fought off Guadalcanal. It was the last major naval clash between U.S. and Japanese forces during
MessageToEagle.com – On January 28, 1858, Eugène Dubois, a Dutch anatomist, geologist, anthropologist, and paleontologist was born in Eijsden, Netherlands. Dubois was famous above all for having discovered remains
MessageToEagle.com – On January 27, 1593, the Vatican began a seven year trial against an Italian Dominican cleric, Giordano Bruno. Bruno was born in Nola, at the foot of
MessageToEagle.com – On January 26, 1500, Brazil was discovered by Vicente Yañez Pinzóñ, a Spanish explorer who had once sailed with Columbus. Interestingly, by that date, Brazil was already
MessageToEagle.com – On January 25, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered during a routine inspection at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa. The diamond, weighing 1.33 pounds, was
MessageToEagle.com – On January 24, 1965, Britain’s greatest war-time leader Winston Churchill died in London. Born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, in 1874, Churchill joined the British Fourth Hussars, after
MessageToEagle.com – On January 23, 1909, a telegraphed distress call came in from the captain of the ocean liner RMS Republic, which in dense fog collided with another ship,
MessageToEagle.com – On January 22, 1506, a group of 150 Swiss mercenaries led by their Captain Kaspar of Silenen in the Canton of Uri, entered the Vatican for
MessageToEagle.com – On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. It happened one day after, the king was convicted
MessageToEagle.com – On January 20, 1569, died Myles Coverdale who printed the first English Bible. Coverdale was a clergyman and Classics scholar who produced the first complete printed
