Graduated with a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Zagreb. He has worked at the Croatian History Museum and as a researcher for the popular TV Calendar program for Croatian Radio and Television. He has authored several books and documentaries about Croatia’s Homeland War and is the creator/producer of the immensely popular “It Happened on this Day - Homeland War” Facebook page as well as the online portal Domovinskirat.hr. Borna also is the host and editor of the daily segment “Patriotic Minutes” on Croatian Catholic Radio. He created CroHis to promote the values of the Homeland War and ensure that the sacrifices of those who defended Croatia’s independence would not be forgotten.
September 4, 1991 was the most difficult day of the Homeland War for the Orahovac and Slatina region of Croatia as rebel Serbs and irregular Chetnik forces attacked and massacred …
On this day in 1991 Bilje became the last village in the Baranja region of eastern Croatia to fall under occupation by rebel Serbs during the Battle of Baranja. The …
On this day in 1991, the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) and rebel Serbs launched their attack on Petrinja. After Serbian terrorists attacked a police station in the city center, Lieutenant …
In the early morning hours of 1 September 1991, the Town of Daruvar and the villages of Doljani and Sirač in the southern part of the municipality of Daruvar. Serb …
On 31 August 1991, the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) arrested Anton Kikaš, a Canadian businessman of Croatian descent at Zagreb’s Pleso Airport. He was arrested in a Ugandan Airlines Boeing …
On 29 August 1991 thousands of mothers from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia arrived in Belgrade where they made five demands in front of the General Staff …
Marino Jakominić, commander of the “Sharks” Special Police Unit of the Rijeka Police Department and hero of the Homeland War died on this day in 1992. Jakominić was born on …
At around noon yesterday, beasts – they can’t be called otherwise – in the gray-olive armoured vehicles of the Yugoslav military without provocation shot Žarko Kaić of Zagreb, a cameraman …
After months of siege, rebel Serbs and the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) completely occupied Kijevo, the largest ethnically Croatian village in the former Knin municipality on 26 August 1991. Militant …
Darko Babić, a member of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Guard “Black Mamba” Brigade and hero of the Homeland War was killed on 26 August 1992. “Drc”, as …