On this day, 3 July 1883, Franz Kafka was born in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A German-language Jewish writer whose reputation...
On this day, 2 July, history marks the deaths of two towering figures whose work helped shape literature, philosophy and modern thought: Anton Chekhov...
On this day in 1859, French acrobat Jean-François Gravelet, better known by his stage name Blondin, became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
The 35-year-old crossed...
