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• 23rd June 1757: British East India Company troops defeat the Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey (Mon, Jun 23, 2025)
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• 22nd June 1942: The words of the Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress (Sun, Jun 22, 2025)
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• 21st June 1675: Foundation stone laid for the new St Paul’s Cathedral in London following the Great Fire of London (Sat, Jun 21, 2025)
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• 20th June 1948: The Western Allies introduce the Deutsche Mark in the three western zones of occupied Germany (Fri, Jun 20, 2025)
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• 19th June 1949: The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race takes place at Charlotte Speedway (Thu, Jun 19, 2025)
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• 18th June 1984: The Battle of Orgreave takes place between miners and police officers during the UK miners’ strike (Wed, Jun 18, 2025)
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• 17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal (Tue, Jun 17, 2025)
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• 16th June 1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space on board Vostock 6 (Mon, Jun 16, 2025)
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• 15th June 1970: Trial of Charles Manson begins in Los Angeles, California, for conspiracy to commit murder (Sun, Jun 15, 2025)
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• 14th June 1777: Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Resolution and adopts the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States (Sat, Jun 14, 2025)
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• 13th June 313: The Edict of Milan formally ends the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (Fri, Jun 13, 2025)
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• 12th June 1942: Anne Frank receives her famous diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father (Thu, Jun 12, 2025)
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• 11th June 1963: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest again the government of Ngô Đình Diệm (Wed, Jun 11, 2025)
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• 10th June 1829: The first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race takes place at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire (Tue, Jun 10, 2025)
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• 9th June 68: Emperor Nero commits suicide (Mon, Jun 09, 2025)
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• 8th June 1968: James Earl Ray arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport in connection with the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (Sun, Jun 08, 2025)
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• 7th June 1832: The Great Reform Act becomes law, significantly changing the electoral system of the UK (Sat, Jun 07, 2025)
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• 6th June 1822: ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’ William Beaumont first treats Alexis St Martin (Fri, Jun 06, 2025)
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• 5th June 1963: John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, resigns following a political scandal caused by his extramarital affair (Thu, Jun 05, 2025)
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• 4th June 1411: King Charles VI of France grants the exclusive right to ripen Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon (Wed, Jun 04, 2025)
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• 3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz (Tue, Jun 03, 2025)
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• 2nd June 1896: Guglielmo Marconi files a patent application for his system of wireless telegraphy (Mon, Jun 02, 2025)
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• 1st June 1946: Ion Antonescu, the former Prime Minister of Romania, executed by firing squad (Sun, Jun 01, 2025)
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• 31st May 1916: Battle of Jutland begins in the North Sea, marking the largest naval battle of the First World War (Sat, May 31, 2025)
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• 30th May 1899: Female bandit Pearl Hart and her partner, Joe Boot, commit one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies (Fri, May 30, 2025)
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• 29th May 1660: Charles II restored to the English throne, marking the end of over a decade of republican rule (Thu, May 29, 2025)
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• 28th May 1754: Battle of Jumonville Glen in Pennsylvania marks the beginning of the French and Indian War (Wed, May 28, 2025)
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• 27th May 1703: The foundation of St Petersburg by Tsar Peter the Great (Tue, May 27, 2025)
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• 26th May 1923: First 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race begins, establishing the endurance racing format (Mon, May 26, 2025)
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• 25th May 1977: The first Star Wars film is released in cinemas (Sun, May 25, 2025)
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• 24th May 1943: Josef Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death, transferred to Auschwitz (Sat, May 24, 2025)
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• 23rd May 1949: West Germany formally established, otherwise known as the Federal Republic of Germany (Fri, May 23, 2025)
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• 22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent (Thu, May 22, 2025)
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• 21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman (Wed, May 21, 2025)
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• 20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (Tue, May 20, 2025)
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• 19th May 1922: Young Pioneer organisation formally established in the USSR (Mon, May 19, 2025)
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• 18th May 1848: The Frankfurt Parliament opens at St. Paul’s Church as the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany (Sun, May 18, 2025)
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• 17th May 1756: The Seven Years’ War begins, when Great Britain formally declares war on France (Sat, May 17, 2025)
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• 16th May 1960: The first laser was successfully operated by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California (Fri, May 16, 2025)
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• 15th May 1940: The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in San Bernadino, California (Thu, May 15, 2025)
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• 14th May 1878: The last witchcraft trial in the United States was held in Salem, Massachusetts (Wed, May 14, 2025)
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• 13th May 1861: Queen Victoria issues a “Proclamation of Neutrality” concerning the American Civil War (Tue, May 13, 2025)
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• 12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California (Mon, May 12, 2025)
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• 11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions (Sun, May 11, 2025)
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• 10th May 1869: The ‘Golden Spike’ completes the first transcontinental railroad in the United States at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory (Sat, May 10, 2025)
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• 9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels (Fri, May 09, 2025)
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• 8th May 1950: The Tollund Man, who lived in the 5th century BC, discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg in Denmark (Thu, May 08, )( 02:05:56 2025, +0000)
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• 7th May 1794: Cult of the Supreme Being formally announced by Robespierre in a meeting of the National Convention (Wed, May 07, 2025)
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• 6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries (Tue, May 06, 2025)
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• 5th May 1789: The Estates General meets at Versailles, near Paris, for the first time in 175 years (Mon, May 05, 2025)
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• 4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students (Sun, May 04, 2025)
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• 3rd May 1921: Partition of Ireland divides Ireland into two separate political entities (Sat, May 03, 2025)
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• 2nd May 1670: Hudson’s Bay Company established with a royal charter from King Charles II of England (Fri, May 02, 2025)
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• 1st May 1776: The forerunner of the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt (Thu, May 01, 2025)
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• 30th April 1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty concluded between the United States and France (Wed, Apr 30, 2025)
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• 29th April 1587: Singeing the King of Spain’s Beard (Tue, Apr 29, 2025)
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• 28th April 1967: Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, refuses induction into the United States Army (Mon, Apr 28, 2025)
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• 27th April 1945: Benito Mussolini, the former Fascist dictator of Italy, captured by Italian partisans in northern Italy (Sun, Apr 27, 2025)
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• 26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender (Sat, Apr 26, 2025)
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• 25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said (Fri, Apr 25, 2025)
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• 24th April 1932: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in the Peak District protests against limited access to open countryside (Thu, Apr 24, 2025)
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• 23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria (Wed, Apr 23, 2025)
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• 22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres (Tue, Apr 22, 2025)
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• 21st April 1526: First Battle of Panipat marks the beginning of Mughal rule in India and the end of the Lodi dynasty (Mon, Apr 21, 2025)
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• 20th April 1965: Houston Astrodome’s skylight windows painted to reduce glare from the sun (Sun, Apr 20, 2025)
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• 19th April 1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War (Sat, Apr 19, 2025)
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• 18th April 1942: The Doolittle Raid marks the first American air operation to strike the Japanese mainland (Fri, Apr 18, 2025)
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• 17th April 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion launched by Brigade 2506 (Thu, Apr 17, 2025)
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• 16th April 1746: The Battle of Culloden takes place near Inverness, Scotland, ending the Jacobite Rising of 1745 (Wed, Apr 16, 2025)
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• 15th April 1861: President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to suppress the growing insurrection in the southern states (Tue, Apr 15, 2025)
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• 14th April 70 CE: Titus begins the Siege of Jerusalem (Mon, Apr 14, 2025)
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• 13th April 1953: Project MK-Ultra human experimentation program granted approval by Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA (Sun, Apr 13, 2025)
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• 12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge (Sat, Apr 12, 2025)
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• 11th April 1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his commands in Korean and Japan (Fri, Apr 11, 2025)
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• 10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy (Thu, Apr 10, 2025)
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• 9th April 1860: First known audio recording made by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph (Wed, Apr 09, 2025)
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• 8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name (Tue, Apr 08, 2025)
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• 7th April 1739: Legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin executed in York after being convicted of horse theft (Mon, Apr 07, 2025)
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• 6th April 1917: The USA declares war on Germany in WW1 (Sun, Apr 06, 2025)
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• 5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America (Sat, Apr 05, 2025)
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• 4th April 1841: US President William Henry Harrison dies 32 days after taking office, ending the shortest presidency in US history (Fri, Apr 04, 2025)
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• 3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford (Thu, Apr 03, 2025)
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• 2nd April 1877: Zazel performs the first recorded human cannonball act at the Royal Aquarium in London (Wed, Apr 02, 2025)
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• 1st April 1918: Royal Air Force formally established in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service (Tue, Apr 01, 2025)
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• 31st March 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially completed and inaugurated in Paris for the Exposition Universelle (Mon, Mar 31, 2025)
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• 30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris (Sun, Mar 30, 2025)
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• 29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam (Sat, Mar 29, 2025)
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• 28th March 1979: British Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a vote of no confidence by a single vote (Fri, Mar 28, 2025)
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• 27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines (Thu, Mar 27, 2025)
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• 26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store (Wed, Mar 26, 2025)
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• 25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their first “Bed-In for Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)
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• 24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia (Mon, Mar 24, 2025)
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• 23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII (Sun, Mar 23, 2025)
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• 22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris (Sat, Mar 22, 2025)
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• 21st March 1871: Otto von Bismarck formally appointed first Chancellor of the German Empire (Fri, Mar 21, 2025)
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• 20th March 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his Hundred Days as ruler of France following his escape from Elba (Thu, Mar 20, 2025)
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• 19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (Wed, Mar 19, 2025)
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• 18th March 1921: Kronstadt Rebellion ends following a final assault by Bolshevik forces (Tue, 18, )(Mar 03:05:28 2025, +0000)
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• 17th March 1861: Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy under the rule of Victor Emmanuel II (Mon, Mar 17, 2025)
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• 16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom (Sun, Mar 16, 2025)
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• 15th March 1848: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 begins in Pest, marking the start of a nationwide movement against Habsburg rule (Sat, Mar 15, 2025)
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• 14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA (Fri, Mar 14, 2025)
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• 13th March 624: Battle of Badr sees the first major engagement between the early Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh tribe of Mecca (Thu, Mar 13, 2025)
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• 12th March 1938: Nazi German troops cross the border to annex Austria in an event known as the Anschluss (Wed, Mar 12, 2025)
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• 11th March 1918: First confirmed case of Spanish Flu identified at Camp Funston in Kansas (Tue, Mar 11, 2025)
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• 10th March 1762: The execution of Jean Calas prompts debates on religious intolerance and judicial injustice in France (Mon, Mar 10, 2025)
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• 9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free (Sun, Mar 09, 2025)
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• 8th March 1736: Nader Shah formally crowned as the ruler of Iran, marking the start of the Afsharid dynasty (Sat, Mar 08, 2025)
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• 7th March 1936: The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army under Adolf Hitler (Fri, Mar 07, 2025)
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• 6th March 1933: Eleanor Roosevelt holds her first press conference as First Lady of the United States (Thu, Mar 06, 2025)
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• 5th March 1946: Winston Churchill describes the post-war division of Europe as an ‘Iron Curtain’ in his ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in Fulton, Missouri (Wed, Mar 05, 2025)
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• 4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)
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• 3rd March 1938: First commercial quantities of oil discovered in Saudi Arabia after engineers drill Dammam Well No. 7 (Mon, Mar 03, 2025)
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• 2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine (Sun, Mar 02, 2025)
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• 1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park (Sat, Mar 01, 2025)
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• 28th February 1993: The Waco siege against the Branch Davidian Church begin in Texas (Fri, Feb 28, 2025)
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• 27th February 1900: Labour Representation Committee founded, marking the start of what would later become the British Labour Party (Thu, Feb 27, 2025)
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• 26th February 1935: Daventry Experiment proves the ability of using radio waves to detect aircraft, heralding the development of radar (Wed, Feb 26, 2025)
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• 25th February 1932: Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship, having been stateless for seven years and unable to run for public office (Tue, Feb 25, 2025)
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• 24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act (Mon, Feb 24, 2025)
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• 23rd February 1903: US President Theodore Roosevelt leases Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in perpetuity (Sun, Feb 23, 2025)
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• 22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard (Sat, Feb 22, 2025)
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• 21st February 1804: World’s first recorded locomotive-hauled railway journey takes place at the Penydarren Ironworks in South Wales (Fri, Feb 21, 2025)
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• 20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland as a wedding dowry (Thu, Feb 20, 2025)
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• 19th February 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to place Japanese Americans in internment camps (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)
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• 18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)
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• 17th February 1936: ‘The Phantom’ comic strip published for the first time, widely regarded as the first costumed superhero (Mon, Feb 17, 2025)
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• 16th February 1937: Organic chemist Wallace Carothers is awarded a patent for nylon (Sun, Feb 16, 2025)
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• 15th February 1965: Canada officially adopts its national flag of a red maple leaf on a white square between two vertical red bars (Sat, Feb 15, 2025)
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• 14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth (Fri, Feb 14, 2025)
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• 13th February 1945: Allied bombing of Dresden begins during the final months of World War II (Thu, Feb 13, 2025)
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• 12th February 1963: Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. (Wed, Feb 12, 2025)
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• 11th February 1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran (Tue, Feb 11, 2025)
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• 10th February 1940: First Tom and Jerry cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (Mon, Feb 10, 2025)
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• 9th February 1895: Volleyball invented by William G. Morgan (Sun, Feb 09, 2025)
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• 8th February 1950: The Stasi formally established in East Germany as the Ministry for State Security (Sat, Feb 08, 2025)
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• 7th February 1964: The Beatles arrive in the United States for their first appearance on national television (Fri, Feb 07, 2025)
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• 6th February 1819: Modern Singapore established with the signing of the Treaty of Singapore (Thu, Feb 06, 2025)
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• 5th February 1924: Greenwich time signal ‘pips’ broadcast by the BBC for the first time (Wed, Feb 05, 2025)
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• 4th February 1703: Forty six of the Forty-Seven Rōnin commit seppuku after avenging the death of their master (Tue, Feb 04, 2025)
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• 3rd February 1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper killed in a plane crash known as ‘The Day the Music Died’ (Mon, Feb 03, 2025)
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• 2nd February 1925: Great Race of Mercy delivers diptheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled relay (Sun, Feb 02, 2025)
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• 1st February 1968: Viet Cong Captain Bảy Lốp executed by General Loan (Sat, Feb 01, 2025)
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• 31st January 1918: Battle of May Island damages and sinks Royal Navy vessels during accidental collisions in thick fog (Fri, Jan 31, 2025)
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• 30th January 1661: Oliver Cromwell posthumously executed, two and a half years after his death (Thu, Jan 30, 2025)
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• 29th January 1886: Karl Benz patents his Motorwagen, widely regarded as the world’s first automobile (Wed, Jan 29, 2025)
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• 28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
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• 27th January 1967: The Outer Space Treaty that is the basis for all space laws opened for signatures (Mon, Jan 27, 2025)
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• 26th January 1998: US President Bill Clinton tells a White House press conference he “did not have sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky (Sun, Jan 26, 2025)
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• 25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game (Sat, Jan 25, 2025)
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• 24th January 41: Caligula is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard (Fri, Jan 24, 2025)
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• 23rd January 1795: French cavalry capture 14 Dutch warships at Den Helder during the War of the First Coalition (Thu, Jan 23, 2025)
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• 22nd January 1506: Pope Julius II formally establishes the Pontifical Swiss Guard as the personal bodyguard of the Pope and the Vatican (Wed, Jan 22, 2025)
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• 21st January 1908: Sullivan’s Ordinance in New York prohibits women from smoking in public places (Tue, Jan 21, 2025)
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• 20th January 1949: Shirley Temple given a tear gas fountain pen by J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, during the inauguration of Harry Truman (Mon, Jan 20, 2025)
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• 19th January 1883: World’s first electric lighting system using overhead wires activated in Roselle, New Jersey (Sun, Jan 19, 2025)
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• 18th January 1871: Wilhelm I of Prussia proclaimed the first German Emperor (Sat, Jan 18, 2025)
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• 17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War (Fri, Jan 17, 2025)
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• 16th January 1547: Ivan the Terrible formally crowned as the first Tsar of Russia (Thu, Jan 16, 2025)
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• 15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston (Wed, Jan 15, 2025)
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• 14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii (Tue, Jan 14, 2025)
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• 13th January 532: The Nika riots begin in Constantinople during the reign of Emperor Justinian I (Mon, Jan 13, 2025)
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• 12th January 1967: Dr James Bedford becomes the first cryonically preserved human (Sun, Jan 12, 2025)
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• 11th January 1879: Anglo-Zulu War begins when British troops cross the Tugela River into Zululand (Sat, Jan 11, 2025)
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• 10th January 1927: Fritz Lang’s pioneering science fiction film Metropolis premieres in Berlin (Fri, Jan 10, 2025)
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• 9th January 1916: Gallipoli campaign ends with an Ottoman victory following the final withdrawal of Allied forces (Thu, 09, )(Jan 03:05:12 2025, +0000)
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• 8th January 1790: George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address (Wed, Jan 08, 2025)
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• 7th January 1785: First aerial crossing of the English Channel completed in a hydrogen balloon (Tue, Jan 07, 2025)
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• 6th January 1066: Harold Godwinson crowned Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (Mon, Jan 06, 2025)
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• 5th January 1953: Samuel Beckett’s play En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) premieres at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris (Sun, Jan 05, 2025)
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• 4th January 1847: Samuel Colt receives the first government order for his firearms (Sat, Jan 04, 2025)
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• 3rd January 1870: Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge (Fri, Jan 03, 2025)
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• 2nd January 1981: Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, better known as the Yorkshire Ripper, arrested by police (Thu, Jan 02, 2025)
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• 1st January 1772: First traveller’s cheques, known as “circular notes”, put on sale (Wed, Jan 01, 2025)
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• 31st December 1935: Monopoly board game patented by Charles Darrow although it wasn’t his idea (Tue, Dec 31, 2024)
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• 30th December 1993: Israel and the Vatican City begin diplomatic relations (Mon, Dec 30, 2024)
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• 29th December 1170: Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in front of the altar of Canterbury Cathedral (Sun, Dec 29, 2024)
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• 28th December 1918: Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman to be elected to the Parliament of the UK (Sat, Dec 28, 2024)
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• 27th December 1922: Hōshō, the world’s first purpose-built aircraft carrier, commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (Fri, Dec 27, 2024)
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• 26th December 1973: Horror film The Exorcist first released in cinemas (Thu, Dec 26, 2024)
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• 25th December 1066: William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey (Wed, Dec 25, 2024)
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• 24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York (Tue, Dec 24, 2024)
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• 23rd December 1823: The poem A Visit from St Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel (Mon, Dec 23, 2024)
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• 22nd December 1971: Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially established in Paris, France (Sun, Dec 22, 2024)
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• 21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth (Sat, Dec 21, 2024)
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• 20th December 1951: EBR-I in Idaho becomes the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electricity (Fri, Dec 20, 2024)
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• 19th December 1487: Largest recorded human sacrifices in Mesoamerican history at the Sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
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• 18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set (Wed, Dec 18, 2024)
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• 17th December 1903: Wright brothers make the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight (Tue, Dec 17, 2024)
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• 16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor (Mon, Dec 16, 2024)
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• 15th December 1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the US Constitution repeals prohibition (Sun, Dec 15, 2024)
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• 14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea (Sat, Dec 14, 2024)
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• 13th December 1939: The Battle of the River Plate takes place off the coast of Uruguay and Argentina as the first major naval battle of WW2 (Fri, Dec 13, 2024)
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• 12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom (Thu, Dec 12, 2024)
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• 11th December 1866: The first transatlantic yacht race begins in Sandy Hook, New Jersey (Wed, Dec 11, 2024)
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• 10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures (Tue, Dec 10, 2024)
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• 9th December 1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast by American television network CBS (Mon, Dec 09, 2024)
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• 8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello (Sun, Dec 08, 2024)
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• 7th December 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor (Sat, Dec 07, 2024)
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• 6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival (Fri, Dec 06, 2024)
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• 5th December 1955: Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama, marking a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement (Thu, Dec 05, 2024)
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• 4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic (Wed, Dec 04, 2024)
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• 3rd December 1973: NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to send close-up images of the planet Jupiter (Tue, Dec 03, 2024)
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• 2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate (Mon, Dec 02, 2024)
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• 1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full (Sun, Dec 01, 2024)
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• 30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (Sat, Nov 30, 2024)
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• 29th November 1972: Pong is officially released by Atari, and soon becomes the first commercially successful video game (Fri, Nov 29, 2024)
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• 28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins, marking the first meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin (Thu, Nov 28, 2024)
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• 27th November 1924: First Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade takes place in New York City (Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
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• 26th November 1805: The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the highest canal aqueduct in the world, opens in North Wales (Tue, Nov 26, 2024)
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• 25th November 1952: Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap opens in London, later to become the longest-running play in the world (Mon, Nov 25, 2024)
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• 24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire (Sun, Nov 24, 2024)
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• 23rd November 1963: First ever episode of Doctor Who broadcast by on BBC television (Sat, Nov 23, 2024)
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• 22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard (Fri, Nov 22, 2024)
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• 21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound (Thu, Nov 21, 2024)
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• 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island (Wed, Nov 20, 2024)
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• 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit (Tue, Nov 19, 2024)
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• 18th November 1883: The Day of Two Noons sees four standard time zones applied across the continental United States (Mon, Nov 18, 2024)
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• 17th November 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of America’s earliest serial killers, apprehended in Boston (Sun, Nov 17, 2024)
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• 16th November 1793: Mass drownings begin in Nantes as part of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (Sat, Nov 16, 2024)
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• 15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time (Fri, Nov 15, 2024)
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• 14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
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• 13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama (Wed, Nov 13, 2024)
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• 12th November 1933: German referendum on withdrawing from the League of Nations (Tue, Nov 12, 2024)
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• 11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor (Mon, Nov 11, 2024)
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• 10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa (Sun, Nov 10, 2024)
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• 9th November 1799: Coup of 18 Brumaire sees Napoleon Bonaparte begin his rise to power (Sat, Nov 09, 2024)
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• 8th November 1620: Battle of White Mountain fought near Prague in the early stages of the Thirty Years’ War (Fri, Nov 08, 2024)
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• 7th November 1917: Bolshevik Red Guards take control of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg (Thu, Nov 07, 2024)
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• 6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA (Wed, Nov 06, 2024)
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• 5th November 1605: Gunpowder Plot foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords in London (Tue, Nov 05, 2024)
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• 4th November 1839: The Newport Rising armed rebellion takes place in south Wales (Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
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• 3rd November 1918: The Kiel Mutiny begins, marking the start of the German Revolution (Sun, Nov 03, 2024)
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• 2nd November 1936: BBC Television Service launched in the UK as the world’s first regular high-definition television service (Sat, Nov 02, 2024)
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• 1st November 1894: Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia following the death of his father, Tsar Alexander III (Fri, Nov 01, 2024)
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• 31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy (Thu, Oct 31, 2024)
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• 30th October 1938: The War of the Worlds radio play, directed by Orson Welles, terrifies listeners in America (Wed, Oct 30, 2024)
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• 29th October 1959: Comic book character Asterix the Gaul’s first appearance in the debut issue of Pilote magazine (Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
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• 28th October 1962: End of the Cuban Missile Crisis as Khrushchev agrees to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba (Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
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• 27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow (Sun, Oct 27, 2024)
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• 26th October 1860: Garibaldi hands control of southern Italy to Victor Emmanuel II (Sat, Oct 26, 2024)
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• 25th October 1940: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes first black general in the US military (Fri, Oct 25, 2024)
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• 24th October 1929: Black Thursday marks the start of the Wall Street Crash (Thu, Oct 24, 2024)
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• 23rd October 1642: Battle of Edgehill fought during the early stages of the English Civil War (Wed, Oct 23, 2024)
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• 22nd October 1910: Dr. Hawley Crippen found guilty of murdering his wife, after being captured with the aid of wireless technology (Tue, Oct 22, 2024)
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