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"Mordad 5th"—day 129th in the Iranian official calendar (236 days – 237 days in leap years – till the end of the year) July 26 in History 657 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those…

July 3 in History 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution…

February 14 in History 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. 842 – Charles the Bald and …

February 13 in History 951 – Guo Wei, a court official, leads a military coup and declares himself emperor of the new Later Zhou. 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognizing John as ruler of …

May 20, 1965: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 707 crashes on its inaugural flight while attempting to land at Cairo airport, killing 124 people. August 6, 1970: A PIA Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashes while attempting…

1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water. 2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. 3. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language (all 26 letters). 4. The strongest muscle…