Today In History

22/05/1990 Microsoft released Windows 3.0

On this day in 1956 in Switzerland Lugano was the first ever Eurovision Song Contest.

on this day in 1923 in France was the first car race "24 hours of Le Mans". To date, it is included in 3 legendary races (Monaco Grand Prix (Formula-1), Indianapolis 500 (Indycar) & Le-Mans (World Endurance Championship ) )

May 26, 1972


The President of the United States Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, commonly named SALT1 .




I was ten and, as a lot of people, i naively believed that it was made for peace. Since the time, i've understood that it was made only for saving money. Fairy tales do not fit well with realpolitik...

May 26, 1928 at the meeting, Fifa decided to spend a every 4 years world championships in football.

May 27, 1940


During the Battle of Dunkirk, 97 British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, isolated from their regiment and who surrendered after running out of ammunition, are cold-bloodedly executed by Waffen SS from the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, in the village of Le Paradis , nearby Lestrem, Northern France.

Two British soldiers, Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan, altough seriously wounded, survived and managed to hide themselves until they get captured by conventional German forces from the Wehrmacht.

After the war, Fritz Knöchlein will be located and arrested. At his trial, the two British survivors will testifie against him. Convicted of war crime, Fritz Knöchlein will be sentenced to death by hanging. This will be carried out on January 28, 1949, in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany.