by qdmhistory | Dec 30, 2021 | Popular
Grigori Rasputin, also known as the Mad Monk, wasn’t actually a monk but a self-proclaimed holy man who was thought to have mystical healing powers. He became friends with Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra in 1905 and supposedly healed their hemophiliac...
by qdmhistory | Dec 29, 2021 | Popular
On December 29, 1997, Hong Kong began a massive operation, slaughtering 1.2 million chickens to curb the spread of the Bird Flu. The exercise was aimed at eradicating a strange ailment that had killed four people. From commercial flocks to family flocks, farmers...
by qdmhistory | Dec 28, 2021 | Popular
On December 28, 1612, Galileo Galilei, while sketching the moons of Jupiter, drew in his notebook what he believed to be a “fixed star” that he had observed through his primitive telescope near Jupiter. However, due to its distance from the sun and slow...
by qdmhistory | Dec 27, 2021 | Popular
December 27 has some rather significant events attached to it. It was on this day in 1978 that Spain announced to the world it was an official democracy. Charles Darwin set sail on December 27, 1836. Almost a century later, as the U.S. struggled with the results of...
by qdmhistory | Dec 26, 2021 | Popular
A tsunami from the Indian Ocean in 2004 washed up the shores of various nations in South and Southeast Asia. The tsunami and its aftermath caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the Indian Ocean coast. On this day, December 26, 2004, at around 7:59 AM...
by qdmhistory | Dec 25, 2021 | Popular
The Roman church began celebrating Christmas on the 25th of December, 336 AD. The emperor Constantine was in power at that time. Before, Constantine had made Christianity the official and practical religion of his entire empire. According to speculations, Constantine...
