He was allowed to have visits from his cousin Nikola Bošković several times a week, and was later released.

It is notable for having been the birthplace of a Dubrovnik trader Nikola Bošković, father of the famed astronomer Ruđer Bošković.

Serbia ; Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, Milutin Milanković, Ruđer Bošković, Miomir Vukobratović.

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician ( b. 1845 )

* 1988 – Nikola Fraňková, Czech tennis player

* 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer ( d. 1943 )

* 1974 – Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician ( Millencolin )

* 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

* 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1927 – Nikola Tesla exposed his six ( 6 ) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity

* June 15 – Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter ( b. 1897 )

* January 7 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian-born American scientist ( b. 1856 )

* May 21 – Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter ( d. 1945 )

* 1887 – 1889: Nikola Tesla of Smiljan, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria – Hungary files for patents on distribution of alternating current ( AC ) and polyphase induction motors and generators.

* July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian inventor ( d. 1943 )

Croatia goalkeeper Mirko Alilović saved a shot from Nikola Karabatic with six seconds to go as Croatia won 24 – 23.

* 1888 – Nikola Tesla patents the induction motor ().

In the beginning of the 20th century Bulgaria was famous for two of the best wrestlers in the world – Dan Kolov and Nikola Petroff.

* November 18 – Nikola Zrinski, Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet ( born 1620 )

* Nikola Hristić ( 1818 – 1911 ), Serbian politician

* Nikola Nešković ( 1739 – 1775 ), Serbian painter

His daughter Caroline walked onto the University of Alabama Women's Rowing Team for the 2011 – 2012 academic year, and his daughter Nikola enjoys eventing horses.

Nikola Šubić Zrinski () or Miklós Zrínyi () ( Zrin, 1508 – Szigetvár, September 7, 1566 ), was a Croatian nobleman and general in service of Habsburg Monarchy, ban of Croatia from 1542 to 1556, and member of the Zrinski noble family.

Under the guidance of new coach Nikola Pilić, after over three months away from the tour due to injury, Dokic qualified for a $ 10, 000 tournament and reached the semifinals of the main draw before losing to Astrid Besser 3 – 6, 6 – 3, 7 – 6.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

Wireless detailed history and growth of the art includes the work of Nikola Tesla, Oliver Lodge, Marconi, Braun, Reginald Fessenden ( known for inventing the radiotelephony ), John Ambrose Fleming, Lee De Forest and many others.

Nikola Tesla discovered in 1901 that when a metal was illuminated by high-frequency light ( e. g., ultraviolet light ), electrons were ejected from the metal at high energy.

Samuel was the fourth and youngest son of count ( comita ) Nikola, a Bulgarian noble, who might have been the Count of Sredets ( Sofia ), although other sources suggest that he was a regional count somewhere in the region of today Macedonia.

From time to time, other musicians, such as Oto Rimele ( from Lačni Franz band ), Nikola Sekulović, bass player from the Demolition Group, Matej Mršnik and Roman Dečman, amongst other, have joined Laibach.

* Nikola Tesla was famous for developing the AC motor, the bifilar coil, various devices that used rotating magnetic fields, the alternating current polyphase power distribution systems, the fundamental devices of systems of wireless communication ( legal priority for the invention of radio ), radio frequency oscillators, devices for voltage magnification by standing waves, robotics, logic gates for secure radio frequency communications, devices for x-rays, apparatus for ozone generation, devices for ionized gases, devices for high field emission, devices for charged particle beams, methods for providing extremely low level of resistance to the passage of electrical current, means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations, voltage multiplication circuitry, devices for high voltage discharges, devices for lightning protection and VTOL aircraft.

By 1890, the Thomson-Houston company was the dominant electrical manufacturing company in the U. S. Nikola Tesla received U. S. Patent 447920, " Method of Operating Arc-Lamps " ( March 10, 1891 ), that describes a 10, 000 cycles per second alternator to suppress the disagreeable sound of power-frequency harmonics produced by arc lamps operating on frequencies within the range of human hearing.

Nicholas Nikola Ribic ( born 1974 ), is a former resident of Edmonton, Alberta, was arrested on February 20, 1999 in Mainz, Germany and then charged as a terrorist as part of the Bosnian-Serb army that captured United Nations peacekeepers and used them as human shields against NATO air strikes in 1995.

Early patents for spark plugs included those by Nikola Tesla ( in for an ignition timing system, 1898 ), Frederick Richard Simms ( GB 24859 / 1898, 1898 ) and Robert Bosch ( GB 26907 / 1898 ).

After their father's death, Vuk and his brothers Grgur and Radonja Nikola were forced by the usurper king Vukašin to leave their land in western Macedonia ( Ohrid ), and they retreated to their ancestral lands in Drenica in the area of present day Kosovo.

These were Slobodan Milošević ( President of Yugoslavia ), Milan Milutinović ( President of Serbia ), Nikola Šainović ( Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister ), Dragoljub Ojdanić ( Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army ) and Vlajko Stojiljković ( Serbian Interior Minister ).

Music and dance were a component part of theatrical expression ( Mavro Vetranović, Nikola Nalješković, Marin Držić, Marin Benetović ), while the function of music and sound effects was under the influence of Italian pastorals.

The Second Army ( 122, 748 men ), under general Nikola Ivanov, with two infantry divisions and one infantry brigade, was deployed west of the First and was assigned to capture the strong fortress of Adrianople ( Edirne ).

The Bulgarian forces were divided into the 1st ( Lt. Gen. Vasil Kutinchev ), 2nd ( Lt. Gen. Nikola Ivanov ) and 3rd ( Lt. Gen. Radko Dimitriev ) Bulgarian Armies of 297, 002 men in the eastern part and 49, 180 ( 33, 180 regulars and 16, 000 irregulars ) under the 2nd Bulgarian Division ( Gen. Stilian Kovachev ) in the western part.

They have five daughters: Marika ( born May 4, 1990 ), twins Isabelle and Caroline ( born July 29, 1991 ), Daniela ( born June 24, 1993 ) Nikola ( born January 20, 1998 ).

The couple's first child, a boy named Nikola ( Никола ), was born 23 July 2004.