Today in Washington the principal photography for The Exorcist began. The film would win two Oscars and become the first horror film to...

Today in 1875, a Maronite monk Charbel Makhlouf became a Hermit and entered the Hermitage of St Peter and St Paul on Mount Lebanon. It...

Today in 1867 the Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam left Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria, to begin his second...