On This Day In History Archive

AncientPages.com - On February 20, 1901, the Russian Orthodox Church censored Count Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, because his public statements contradicted the articles of orthodox belief.

AncientPages.com - On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses,  was convicted of treason and executed

AncientPages.com - On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 - 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the thirteenth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled c. 1332

AncientPages.com - On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow

AncientPages.com - On February 13, 1578,  Tycho Brahe first sketched the "Tychonic system," a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System.  Tycho

AncientPages.com - On February 11, 660 AD, a memorable holiday was celebrated in Japan. The so-called National Foundation Day commemorates the nation's creation and is also related to

AncientPages.com - On February 9, 1555, Master John Hooper, bishop of Worcester and Gloucester, is burnt at the stake to defend the gospel at Gloucester. The sheriff's men were

AncientPages.com - In the early morning of February 7, 1920, in Irkutsk, Siberia, the Bolsheviks executed Aleksandr Kolchak, one of the leaders of the White Movement and the so-called

AncientPages.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

AncientPages.com - On February 4, 1488, Dias reached Mossel Bay, South Africa. He had passed Africa’s southern tip. Dias rounded the cape and landed. Since it was the day

AncientPages.com - On February 2, 1461, the battle was fought near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire, at a site not far from the border with Wales. The young Edward,

AncientPages.com - Reginald Walter Bonham was born on January 31, 1906, in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England. Bonham was the most famous British blind player ever. He was known for his

AncientPages.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 the Guadalcanal

AncientPages.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