HistoryPod
By Scott Allsop
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The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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28th April 1869: Ten miles of railway track are laid in a single day by the crews of the Central Pacific Railroad
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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27th April 1953: The US launches Operation Moolah to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter through defection
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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25th April 1898: The United States declares war on Spain in the Spanish–American War
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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24th April 1800: The Library of Congress established when John Adams approves a budget of $5,000 for books
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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23rd April 1348: Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush takes place with 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands opened to settlement
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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20th April 1792: The French Revolutionary Wars begin when the Assembly vote for war against Austria
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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18th April 1775: Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington with his message that “the Regulars are coming out!”
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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17th April 1907: Ellis Island in New York Harbor has its busiest day, processing 11,747 immigrants
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opens as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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12th April 1861: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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10th April 1815: The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history occurred at Mount Tambora
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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8th April 1838: SS Great Western begins her maiden voyage to New York as the first steamship specifically built for transatlantic travel
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established by the National Convention of France
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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5th April 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European to encounter Easter Island
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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4th April 1925: Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of the SS
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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3rd April 1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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1st April 1944: The USAAF accidentally bomb the neutral Swiss town of Schaffhausen instead of a German chemical factory
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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31st March 1985: WrestleMania I takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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30th March 1900: Archaeologists at the ancient site of Knossos discover the first clay tablet inscribed with Linear B
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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29th March 1806: Construction of the Cumberland Road, the first federally funded highway, authorised by U.S. Congress
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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27th March 1964: Most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Alaska
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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26th March 1351: Combat of the Thirty fought between English and Breton soldiers during the Breton War of Succession
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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24th March 1989: Start of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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23rd March 1857: The world’s first successful passenger elevator installed in a five-storey New York City department store
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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21st March 1952: Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, takes place in Cleveland, Ohio
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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20th March 1854: U.S. Republican Party founded at a meeting in a schoolhouse in Wisconsin
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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19th March 1831: City Bank of New York robbed in the first widely-reported bank heist in U.S. history
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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18th March 1990: 13 works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the world’s largest ever art theft
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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16th March 1660: England’s Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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13th March 1942: Julia Flikke, the commander of the Army Nurse Corps, became the first female Colonel in the United States
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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12th March 1947: Truman Doctrine established when the President asks for aid to Greece and Turkey
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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9th March 1776: “The Wealth of Nations” published by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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8th March 1971: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced each other in the ‘Fight of the Century’
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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7th March 1850: Senator Daniel Webster makes his “Seventh of March” speech in favour of the Compromise of 1850
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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4th March 1865: Andrew Johnson, Vice President of the United States, delivers his inaugural address while drunk
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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3rd March 1857: The largest ever sale of enslaved people in the United States, known as the Weeping Time
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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2nd March 537: First Siege of Rome begins as the Ostrogoth army encircle the Byzantine forces of the general Belisarius
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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1st March 1562: Massacre of Vassy marks the beginning of the French Wars of Religion
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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29th February 1796: Jay Treaty marks the start of ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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28th February 1849: First ‘49ers arrive in San Francisco to begin the California Gold Rush
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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25th February 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African-American U.S. Senator
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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24th February 1920: Adolf Hitler announces the 25 Point Programme and the establishment of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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23rd February 1836: The Siege of the Alamo begins, lasting for thirteen days before the final battle
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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22nd February 1946: The ‘Long Telegram’ sent by George F. Kennan, a senior American diplomat in Moscow
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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21st February 1885: the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was dedicated
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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20th February 1939: Pro-Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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19th February 1913: Pedro Lascurain began the world’s shortest ever presidency in Mexico
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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18th February 1915: Germany initiates a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare during the First World War
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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17th February 1966: First recording session for the Beach Boys song ‘Good Vibrations’ takes place at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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16th February 1861: Abraham Lincoln meets the girl who advised him to grow a beard to gain more votes
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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15th February 1946: ENIAC, the world’s first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, formally dedicated
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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14th February 1939: German battleship Bismarck launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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13th February 1981: The sewers of Louisville, Kentucky, explode after industrial waste makes its way into the tunnels
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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11th February 1919: Friedrich Ebert elected as first President of the German Weimar Republic
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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10th February 1962: Captured U-2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers freed in a prisoner exchange
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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9th February 1950: Joseph McCarthy starts the Second Red Scare with a speech claiming Communists were working in the U.S. Department of State
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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8th February 1910: The Boy Scouts of America organization incorporated by William D. Boyce in Washington D.C.
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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7th February 1914: Charlie Chaplin’s iconic ‘Tramp’ character makes his first public appearance in the film Kid Auto Races at Venice
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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5th February 1909: Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic, announced by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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4th February 1555: John Rogers became the first Protestant martyr under ‘Bloody’ Mary I of England
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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3rd February 1972: The deadliest recorded blizzard hit northwestern, central and southern Iran
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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2nd February 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued after spending more than four years as a castaway
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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1st February 1861: Texas declares its secession from the United States after a convention votes overwhelmingly in favour
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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31st January 1865: Thirteenth Amendment passed by the US Congress to formally abolish slavery
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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30th January 1835: Andrew Jackson survives the first assassination attempt of a sitting US President
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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29th January 2002: The phrase ‘Axis of Evil’ used for the first time by President George W. Bush
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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28th January 1896: First speeding ticket for an automobile issued to British motorist Walter Arnold
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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27th January 1916: Conscription for WW1 introduced by the British Government in the Military Service Act
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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26th January 1885: Siege of Khartoum ends when Sudanese Mahdist forces capture the city from Governor-General Charles George Gordon
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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25th January 1924: First Winter Olympic Games begin in Chamonix, France
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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24th January 1935: The first canned beer goes on sale from the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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23rd January 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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22nd January 1973: The Supreme Court issues its decision on the Roe v. Wade abortion case
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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21st January 1954: Launch of USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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20th January 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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18th January 1911: Eugene Ely lands the first aircraft on a ship when he touches down on USS Pennsylvania
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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17th January 1966: Palomares incident sees a B-52 break apart after a mid-air collision, dropping four nuclear bombs
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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15th January 1892: Rules for basketball published for the first time by James Naismith
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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14th January 1967: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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13th January 1910: First public radio broadcast features a live performance from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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12th January 1848: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 begins in Palermo on the island of Sicily
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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11th January 1964: US Surgeon General publishes groundbreaking report on the health effects of tobacco smoking
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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10th January 1776: Thomas Paine publishes the pamphlet Common Sense advocating American independence
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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9th January 1861: Star of the West fired upon by South Carolina batteries as it approached Fort Sumter
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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8th January 1828: Democratic Party established in the United States to become the oldest active voter-based political party in the world
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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7th January 1782: The Bank of North America, the nation’s first chartered bank, opens in Philadelphia
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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6th January 1912: Continental Drift hypothesis first presented by German scientist Alfred Wegener
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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5th January 1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman in the United States to be sworn in as governor of a state
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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4th January 1903: Topsy the elephant electrocuted at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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3rd January 1911: The Siege of Sidney Street gunfight takes place in London’s East End
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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2nd January 1959: USSR launches Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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1st January 1739: Discovery of Bouvet Island, the world’s most remote island
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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31st December 1600: The East India Company officially established with a charter from Elizabeth I
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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30th December 1916: “Mad Monk” Grigori Rasputin murdered by Russian nobles
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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29th December 1937: Constitution of Ireland comes into effect as the longest continually operating republican constitution in the E.U.
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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28th December 1958: ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played’ in the NFL Championship Playoff
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. O’Sullivan
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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26th December 1825: The Decembrist Revolt takes place in Russia against autocratic Tsarist rule
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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25th December 1776: George Washington crosses the Delaware with a column of the Continental Army
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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24th December 1818: ‘Stille Nacht’, known in English as Silent Night, performed for the first time
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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23rd December 1688: James II of England flees to exile in France during the Glorious Revolution
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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22nd December 1882: The first use of electric lights on a Christmas tree
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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21st December 1825: The Fredonian Rebellion begins when American settlers in Mexican Texas declare their independence
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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20th December 1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States of America
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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19th December 1918: Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not!’ published for the first time in the New York Globe
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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18th December 1916: End of the Battle of Verdun during the First World War
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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17th December 1969: Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force’s systematic study of UFOs, officially terminated
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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16th December 1944: The Battle of the Bulge begins on the Western Front of the Second World War
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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15th December 1791: United States Bill of Rights becomes law after ratification by the Virginia General Assembly
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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14th December 1972: Gene Cernan becomes the last person on the Moon at the end of the Apollo 17 mission
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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13th December 1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organises a formal militia, laying the foundations for the US National Guard
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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12th December 2000: Bush v. Gore decision reached by the United States Supreme Court
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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11th December 1941: Nazi Germany declares war on the USA
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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10th December 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham executed for affairs with Catherine Howard
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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9th December 1868: The world’s first traffic lights go into operation outside the Houses of Parliament in London
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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8th December 1912: German Imperial War Council discusses the possibility of a European war
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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7th December 1837: The Battle of Montgomery’s Tavern during the Upper Canada Rebellion
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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6th December 1648: “Pride’s Purge” stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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2nd December 1805: The Battle of Austerlitz sees Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée defeat Russia and Austria
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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1st December 1919: Lady Nancy Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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30th November 1803: Balmis Expedition sets sail to vaccinate inhabitants of Spanish colonies against smallpox
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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28th November 1925: The Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio show in the USA, broadcast for the first time
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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27th November 1978: San Francisco politicians George Moscone and Harvey Milk shot dead by former Supervisor Dan White
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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26th November 1789: The first formal National Day of Thanksgiving in the United States
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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25th November 1783: The British Army departed New York City, nearly three months after the end of the American Revolutionary War
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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24th November 1835: Texas Rangers formally instituted by Texan lawmakers
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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23rd November 1876: William “Boss” Tweed delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain following his escape from prison for corruption
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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22nd November 1943: Cairo Conference begins when leaders of Britain, the USA and China meet to discuss the Allied position regarding Japan
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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20th November 1910: Uprising by Francisco Madero against Porfirio Díaz triggers the Mexican Revolution
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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19th November 1919: United States Senate votes to reject the Treaty of Versailles
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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18th November 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting in a Presidential election
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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17th November 1978: CBS broadcast the heavily-criticised Star Wars Holiday Special
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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16th November 1933: The USA establishes formal diplomatic relations with the USSR
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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15th November 1864: Sherman’s March to the Sea begins when the Civil War Union General leads his troops from Atlanta, GA, to the port of Savannah
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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14th November 1680: German astronomer Gottfried Kirch uses a telescope to discover a comet for the first time
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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13th November 1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial formally dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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11th November 1831: Nat Turner executed for leading a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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10th November 1983: Bill Gates announces the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface for PCs
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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8th November 1861: The Trent Affair nearly causes a war between Britain and the United States
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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7th November 1919: Palmer Raids in the United States result in the arrest of thousands of suspected communists and anarchists
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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6th November 1869: First intercollegiate American football match played between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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5th November 1925: Sidney Reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, executed in the Soviet Union
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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4th November 1890: City and South London Railway, the world’s first deep-level underground ‘tube’ railway, officially opened
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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3rd November 1868: John Willis Menard became the first African-American to be elected to Congress
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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2nd November 1988: Release of the Morris Worm signalled the first major internet security attack
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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1st November 1765: The Stamp Act went into force in the Thirteen Colonies
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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31st October 1913: Formal dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the United States
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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30th October 1942: German Enigma machine ciphers retrieved from submarine U-559 by British sailors
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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29th October 1964: ‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices carry out the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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28th October 1922: Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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27th October 312: Constantine the Great receives his Vision of the Cross, marking the start of his conversion to Christianity
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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26th October 1776: Benjamin Franklin departs America for France to secure a formal alliance and treaty
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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25th October 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade undertaken by British forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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24th October 1648: Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years’ War that ravaged Europe
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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20th October 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashes during an emergency landing, killing three members of the band
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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19th October 1953: Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 first published
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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18th October 1867: The Alaska Purchase completed with the formal transfer from Russia to the United States
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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17th October 1860: Oldest golf tournament in the world begins with The Open at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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15th October 1966: The Black Panther Party founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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14th October 1947: Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to officially break the sound barrier in the experimental Bell X-1
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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12th October 1928: ‘Iron lung’ respirator used for the first time
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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11th October 1649: Sack of Wexford in Ireland by English forces under Oliver Cromwell who burn much of the town and kill over 1,500 people
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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9th October 1919: Black Sox Scandal overshadows the World Series baseball championship win by the Cincinnati Reds
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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8th October 1871: The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the most deadly wildfire in recorded history
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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7th October 1763: Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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6th October 1973: Yom Kippur War begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack on Israel
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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4th October 1927: Work begins on the USA’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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3rd October 1993: The Black Hawk Down incident during the Battle of Mogadishu
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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2nd October 1627: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last ruler of the Ming Dynasty, ascends the throne
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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1st October 1957: The phrase ‘In God We Trust’ appears on U.S. paper currency for the first time
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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29th September 1918: German Supreme Army Command urges Wilhelm II negotiate an armistice after the Allies break through the Hindenburg Line
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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27th September 1777: The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for a single day
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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26th September 1983: Nuclear war avoided after Soviet detection system wrongly identifies incoming ballistic missile
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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24th September 1952: Kentucky Fried Chicken opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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21st September 1931: Britain abandons the gold standard after Parliament passes the Gold Standard (Amendment) Act
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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18th September 1812: The Fire of Moscow burnt out five days after it began, leaving Napoleon in possession of the city
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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17th September 1862: Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal in Pennsylvania sees the largest single civilian loss of life during the American Civil War
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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14th September 1607: ‘Flight of the Earls’ sees Gaelic nobility, led by Hugh O’Neill and Rory O’Donnell, leave Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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13th September 1899: Henry H. Bliss, the first person to be killed by an automobile in America
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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12th September 1958: The world’s first integrated circuit demonstrated by Jack Kilby
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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11th September 1973: General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile after launching a coup against President Salvador Allende
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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9th September 1776: The name ‘United States’ of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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8th September 1966: Star Trek makes its television debut with “The Man Trap”
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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7th September 1813: According to tradition, the United States gained its nickname, ‘Uncle Sam’
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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6th September 1901: President William McKinley shot at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolgosz
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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5th September 1781: Battle of the Chesapeake sees the British Navy repelled by the French during the American War of Independence
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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3rd September 301: The world’s oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marino
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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2nd September 1935: The Labor Day hurricane, the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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1st September 1985: Wreck of the Titanic discovered by a team led by Robert Ballard
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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31st August 1920: The world’s first radio news service begins broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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30th August 1963: The Moscow-Washington hotline enters operation
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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29th August 1949: USSR successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First Lightning
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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28th August 1955: The murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi
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Aug 28, 2023 |