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Apr 09 1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital |
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Apr 08 217 Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus |
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Apr 07 1794 English chemist and theologian Joseph Priestley departs England for America on board Sansom at Gravesend |
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Apr 06 774 Charles the Great (Charlemagne) confirmed the gift to the Pope of the territories belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy-sur-Loire in 753 |
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Apr 06 774 Charles the Great (Charlemagne) confirmed the gift to the Pope of the territories belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy- |
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Apr 05 1603 New English King James I (James VI of Scotland) departs Edinburgh for London |
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Apr 04 1660 English King Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion) |
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| 2022-04-02 - 2022-04-03 |
Apr 03 1657 English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell refuses crown |
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| 2022-04-01 - 2022-04-02 |
Apr 02 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida |
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| 2022-03-29 - 2022-04-01 |
Mar 30 1900 62nd Grand National: Algy Anthony wins aboard Ambush II; owner is Prince Of Wales (King Edward VII) |
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Mar 29 1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions |
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| 2022-03-27 - 2022-03-28 |
Mar 28 1859 1st performance of Johannes Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra |
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| 2022-03-26 - 2022-03-27 |
Mar 27 1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida |
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| 2022-03-25 - 2022-03-26 |
Mar 26 1937 Ty Cobb's advice and replaces his 40 oz bat with a 36 oz one |
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| 2022-03-24 - 2022-03-25 |
Mar 25 1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference |
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| 2022-03-23 - 2022-03-24 |
Mar 24 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun, officially establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate which would rule Japan until 1867 |
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| 2022-03-22 - 2022-03-23 |
Mar 23 1775 Patrick Henry proclaims 'Give me liberty or give me death' in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war |
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| 2022-03-21 - 2022-03-22 |
Mar 22 1958 Under pressure King Saud appoints Faisal Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia |
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| 2022-03-20 - 2022-03-21 |
Mar 21 1968 Portuguese socialist António de Oliveira Salazar |
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| 2022-03-19 - 2022-03-20 |
Mar 20 1345 Saturn, Jupiter and Mars-conjunction: thought 'cause of plague epidemic' |
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| 2022-03-18 - 2022-03-19 |
Mar 19 1882 1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí |
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| 2022-03-17 - 2022-03-18 |
Mar 18 1781 Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92 |
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| 2022-03-16 - 2022-03-17 |
Mar 17 1921 Vladimir Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics |
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| 2022-02-09 - 2022-03-16 |
Feb 10 1778 Voltaire returns to Paris to great acclaim after an absence of 28 years |
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| 2022-02-07 - 2022-02-09 |
Feb 08 1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta |
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| 2022-02-06 - 2022-02-07 |
Feb 07 1668 Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of 'Ballet of Peace' |
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| 2022-02-05 - 2022-02-06 |
Feb 06 1922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI |
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| 2021-10-19 - 2022-01-30 |
Oct 20 1528 Treaty of Gorinchem signed between Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Duke Charles of Guelders |
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| 2021-10-18 - 2021-10-19 |
Oct 19 1882 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley |
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| 2021-10-17 - 2021-10-18 |
Oct 18 1855 Franz Liszt's symphonic poem 'Prometheus' premieres |
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| 2021-10-16 - 2021-10-17 |
Oct 17 1871 US President Ulysses S. Grant suspends habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina during prosecutions against Ku Klux Klan |
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| 2021-10-15 - 2021-10-16 |
Oct 16 1847 Charlotte Brontë's book 'Jane Eyre' published |
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| 2021-10-14 - 2021-10-15 |
Oct 15 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile |
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| 2021-10-13 - 2021-10-14 |
Oct 14 1956 Indian social reformer B.R. Ambedkar and 500,000 supporters convert to Buddhism in Nagpur |
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| 2021-10-12 - 2021-10-13 |
Oct 13 1924 Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud |
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| 2021-10-11 - 2021-10-12 |
Oct 12 1518 Pontifical ambassador interrogates Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-10-10 - 2021-10-11 |
Oct 11 1911 Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are named inaugural MLB MVPs; prize is a car |
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| 2021-10-09 - 2021-10-10 |
Oct 10 1902 American outlaw Tom Horn's murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death |
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| 2021-10-08 - 2021-10-09 |
Oct 09 1864 Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General George A. Custer + Merrit's cavalry divisions |
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| 2019-10-08 - 2021-10-08 |
Oct 08 1625 English Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz, Spain |
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| 2021-10-06 - 2021-10-07 |
Oct 07 1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroy Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece<span class="text-center">Re |
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| 2021-10-05 - 2021-10-06 |
Oct 06 1911 Boston Rustlers' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young's MLB farewell appearance is a letdown; loses 13-3 to Brooklyn Dodgers in his 906th g |
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| 2021-10-04 - 2021-10-05 |
Oct 05 1947 Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House |
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| 2021-10-03 - 2021-10-04 |
Oct 04 1777 Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania |
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| 2018-10-03 - 2021-10-03 |
Oct 03 1778 Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska |
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| 2021-10-01 - 2021-10-02 |
Oct 02 1552 Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. |
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| 2021-09-30 - 2021-10-01 |
Oct 01 1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, which redrew Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte |
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| 2021-09-29 - 2021-09-30 |
Sep 30 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566) |
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| 2021-09-28 - 2021-09-29 |
Sep 29 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills |
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| 2021-09-27 - 2021-09-28 |
Sep 28 1621 Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund III Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeats an invading Ottoman Imperial army |
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| 2021-09-26 - 2021-09-27 |
Sep 27 1909 US President William Howard Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes |
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| 2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 |
Sep 24 1841 British adventurer James Brooke obtains lands around the Sarawak river from the Sultan of Brunei |
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| 2021-09-22 - 2021-09-23 |
Sep 23 1940 Dutch artist Piet Mondrian leaves Europe for New York, where he lives for the rest of his life |
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| 2021-09-21 - 2021-09-22 |
Sep 22 1773 Benjamin Franklin publishes a hoax letter 'An Edict by the King of Prussia' in the Public Advertiser, criticising Britain's colonial policies in the American colonies |
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| 2021-09-20 - 2021-09-21 |
Sep 21 1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested |
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| 2021-09-20 (11:14:29 - 21:14:31) |
Sep 20 1919 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Engineers CC: Defending champion Jim Barnes defeats Fred McLeod, 6 + 5 in the final |
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| 2021-09-16 - 2021-09-17 |
Sep 17 1859 Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America |
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| 2021-09-15 - 2021-09-16 |
Sep 16 1906 Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica |
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| 2021-09-14 - 2021-09-15 |
Sep 15 1707 Ferenc Rákóczi II, Prince of Transylvania and Tsar Peter the Great sign social security agreement |
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| 2021-09-13 - 2021-09-14 |
Sep 14 1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar (no Sept 3 - Sept 13)<span class="text-center">Read Article</span> |
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| 2021-09-12 - 2021-09-13 |
Sep 13 1845 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light |
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| 2021-09-11 - 2021-09-12 |
Sep 12 1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission |
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| 2021-09-10 - 2021-09-11 |
Sep 11 1885 Ambrose Bierce finishes as editor of The Wasp magazine |
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| 2021-09-08 - 2021-09-10 |
Sep 09 1940 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Donald McNeill beats fellow American Bobby Riggs 4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 for his second major singles title |
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| 2021-09-07 - 2021-09-08 |
Sep 08 1980 Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest |
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| 2021-09-06 - 2021-09-07 |
Sep 07 1876 Frank James and his gang are involved in a disastrous raid in Northfield, Minnesota, results in the death or capture of multiple gang members (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) |
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| 2021-09-05 - 2021-09-06 |
Sep 06 1522 Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth. |
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| 2021-09-04 - 2021-09-05 |
Sep 05 1622 Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII |
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| 2021-09-03 - 2021-09-04 |
Sep 04 1609 Navigator Henry Hudson is the first European to discover island of Manhattan [or Sep 11] |
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| 2021-09-02 - 2021-09-03 |
Sep 03 36 BC Battle of Naulochus: Admiral of Octavian, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeats son of Pompey, Sextus Pompeius, ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate |
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| 2021-09-01 - 2021-09-02 |
Sep 02 1752 Last Julian calendar day in Great Britain and British colonies including America. To sync to the Gregorian calendar, 11 days are skipped and the next date is Sep 14.<span class="text-center">Read Article</span> |
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| 2021-08-31 - 2021-09-01 |
Sep 01 1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan |
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| 2021-08-30 - 2021-08-31 |
Aug 31 1745 Jacobite Rising 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland |
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| 2021-08-29 - 2021-08-30 |
Aug 30 1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922 |
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| 2019-08-29 - 2021-08-29 |
Aug 29 1526 Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent |
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| 2021-08-27 - 2021-08-28 |
Aug 28 1914 Third day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): violent German/Russian battles |
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| 2021-08-26 - 2021-08-27 |
Aug 27 1883 Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people<span class="text-center">Read Article</span> |
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| 2021-08-21 - 2021-08-26 |
Aug 22 1632 Prince Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange occupies Maastricht |
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| 2021-08-20 - 2021-08-21 |
Aug 21 1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending 50 years of parliamentary rule |
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| 2018-08-20 - 2021-08-20 |
Aug 20 1865 President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to 'insurrection' in Texas |
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| 2021-08-18 - 2021-08-19 |
Aug 19 1274 Edward I is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey after returning from the Ninth Crusade |
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| 2021-08-17 - 2021-08-18 |
Aug 18 1564 Spanish King Philip II joins Council of Trente |
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| 2018-08-17 - 2021-08-17 |
Aug 17 1808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain |
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| 2021-08-15 - 2021-08-16 |
Aug 16 1908 The Committee of Union and Progress, 'The Young Turks', announces a program for reforms and respect for the rights of all within the Ottoman Empire, regardless of race or religion |
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| 2018-08-15 - 2021-08-15 |
Aug 15 778 Battle of Roncevaux Pass: Roland, commander of the rearguard of Charlemagne's army is defeated by the Basques |
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| 2021-08-13 - 2021-08-14 |
Aug 14 1040 King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth (not murdered in his sleep as in Shakespeare's play). The latter does succeed him as King. |
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| 2019-08-13 - 2021-08-13 |
Aug 13 1521 Spanish conquistadors under Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire |
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| 2021-08-12 (09:43:35 - 21:44:00) |
Aug 12 1867 US President Edwin Stanton |
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| 2021-06-16 - 2021-07-28 |
Jun 17 1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) |
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| 2021-06-15 - 2021-06-16 |
Jun 16 1858 Abraham Lincoln says 'A house divided against itself cannot stand' accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate |
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| 2018-06-15 - 2021-06-15 |
Jun 15 1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren |
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| 2021-06-13 - 2021-06-14 |
Jun 14 1822 Charles Babbage proposes a 'difference engine' in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled 'Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables' |
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| 2021-06-12 - 2021-06-13 |
Jun 13 1792 King Louis XVI dismisses French government |
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| 2021-06-11 - 2021-06-12 |
Jun 12 1898 Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain |
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| 2021-06-10 - 2021-06-11 |
Jun 11 1900 David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers |
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| 2021-06-09 - 2021-06-10 |
Jun 10 1190 Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army to Jerusalem |
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| 2021-06-09 (10:14:12 - 21:14:37) |
Jun 09 1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River |
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| 2021-06-08 - 2021-06-09 |
Jun 09 1914 Pittsburgh Pirate baseball shortstop Honus Wagner is 2nd player to get 3,000 hits |
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| 2021-06-07 - 2021-06-08 |
Jun 08 1632 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, conquers Sittard |
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| 2021-06-06 - 2021-06-07 |
Jun 07 1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Lousisiana, Jefferson Davis' home burnt |
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| 2021-06-05 - 2021-06-06 |
Jun 06 1924 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Unknown Englishman Cyril Walker wins his only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Bobby Jones |
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| 2021-06-04 - 2021-06-05 |
Jun 05 1284 Charles of Salerno is captured by Roger of Lauria during a naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, part of the Sicilian Vespers uprising<span class="text-center">Read Article</span> |
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| 2021-06-03 - 2021-06-04 |
Jun 04 1940 British complete the 'Miracle of Dunkirk' by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats<span class="t |
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| 2021-06-02 - 2021-06-03 |
Jun 03 1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack |
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| 2018-06-02 - 2021-06-02 |
Jun 02 1771 'Armida', an operatic 'dramma per musica' by Antonio Salieri debuts at the Vienna Burgtheater |
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| 2021-05-31 - 2021-06-01 |
Jun 01 794 Charles the Great (aka Charlemagne) opens general synod in Frankfurt |
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| 2021-05-30 - 2021-05-31 |
May 31 1279 BC Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (19th Dynasty) |
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| 2021-05-29 - 2021-05-30 |
May 30 1808 Napoleon Bonaparte annexes Tuscany + gave it seats in French Senate |
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| 2018-05-29 - 2021-05-29 |
May 29 1630 John Winthrop begins 'History of New England' |
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| 2021-05-27 - 2021-05-28 |
May 28 1938 Paul Hindemith's opera 'Mathis der Maler' premieres in Zurich |
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| 2021-05-26 - 2021-05-27 |
May 27 1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered |
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| 2021-05-20 - 2021-05-26 |
May 21 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian archduke Charles beats Napoleon and his army. Napoleon's first defeat in 10 years. |
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| 2021-05-19 - 2021-05-20 |
May 20 1882 Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago |
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| 2021-05-18 - 2021-05-19 |
May 19 1506 Christopher Columbus selects his son Diego Columbus as sole heir |
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| 2018-05-18 - 2021-05-18 |
May 18 1631 John Winthrop is elected 1st Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| 2021-05-16 - 2021-05-17 |
May 17 1824 The diaries of Lord Byron are burnt by six of the poet's friends at the office of John Murray in London, sometimes described as “the greatest crime in literary history” |
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| 2021-05-14 - 2021-05-16 |
May 15 1213 King John of England names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury |
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| 2021-05-13 - 2021-05-14 |
May 14 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw |
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| 2021-05-12 - 2021-05-13 |
May 13 1568 Mary Queen of Scots is defeated at Battle of Langside |
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| 2021-05-11 - 2021-05-12 |
May 12 1926 General Józef Piłsudski returns to power in Poland after coup d'état against the Witos regime |
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| 2021-05-10 - 2021-05-11 |
May 11 1800 French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck give a lecture first outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France |
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| 2021-05-11 (06:13:10 - 06:13:10) |
May 11 1800 French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck give a lecture first outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Par |
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| 2021-05-09 - 2021-05-10 |
May 10 1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English King Edward I |
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| 2021-05-08 - 2021-05-09 |
May 09 1941 Louis Buchalter is arraigned in New York state court on the 1936 Joseph Rosen murder along with three other murders |
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| 2021-05-07 - 2021-05-08 |
May 08 1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-05-06 - 2021-05-07 |
May 07 558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-05-05 - 2021-05-06 |
May 06 1794 Haiti, under Toussaint Louverture, revolts against France |
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| 2021-05-04 - 2021-05-05 |
May 05 1789 French Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614 at Versailles, summoned King Louis XVI |
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| 2019-05-04 - 2021-05-04 |
May 04 1535 Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England |
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| 2020-05-03 - 2021-05-03 |
May 03 1715 Edmond Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon 'Baily's Beads' |
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| 2021-05-01 - 2021-05-02 |
May 02 1670 King Charles II gives royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company |
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| 2021-04-30 - 2021-05-01 |
May 01 1753 Publication of Species Plantarum by Carolus Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature |
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| 2021-04-29 - 2021-04-30 |
Apr 30 1492 Isabella I and Ferdinand II to equip his fleet to the New World |
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| 2021-04-28 - 2021-04-29 |
Apr 29 1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners |
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| 2021-04-27 - 2021-04-28 |
Apr 28 1788 Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify US constitution<span class="text-center">Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-04-26 - 2021-04-27 |
Apr 27 1840 Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by Sarah Barry wife of its architect Charles Barry<span class="text-center">Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-04-25 - 2021-04-26 |
Apr 26 1814 King Louis XVIII lands at Calais from England |
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| 2021-04-24 - 2021-04-25 |
Apr 25 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes 'Robinson Crusoe', regarded as the 1st English novel |
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| 2021-04-23 - 2021-04-24 |
Apr 24 1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead |
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| 2021-04-22 - 2021-04-23 |
Apr 23 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets in Ankara, under the leadership of Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-04-21 - 2021-04-22 |
Apr 22 1671 King Charles II sits in on English parliament |
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| 2021-04-20 - 2021-04-21 |
Apr 21 1785 Catherine II of Russia confers on the nobility the 'Charter to the Nobility', increasing further the power of the landed oligarchs |
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| 2021-04-20 (12:11:14 - 21:11:16) |
Apr 20 1611 First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London, recorded by Simon Forman |
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| 2021-04-19 - 2021-04-20 |
Apr 20 1653 Oliver Cromwell routes English parliament to house |
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| 2021-04-18 - 2021-04-19 |
Apr 19 1713 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, decreeing that Habsburg possessions could be inherited by a daughter |
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| 2021-04-18 (10:11:06 - 21:11:08) |
Apr 18 1916 Edith Wharton is appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest award, for her contribution to the war effort |
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| 2021-04-17 - 2021-04-18 |
Apr 18 1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:40:22.2; his 5th victory in the event |
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| 2021-04-16 - 2021-04-17 |
Apr 17 1492 Christopher Columbus signs a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the 'Indies' with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered. |
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| 2021-04-14 - 2021-04-16 |
Apr 15 1755 Samuel Johnson's 'A Dictionary of the English Language' published in London |
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| 2021-04-14 (17:10:51 - 21:10:53) |
Apr 14 43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-04-13 - 2021-04-14 |
Apr 14 1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars |
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Apr 13 1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist |
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| 2021-04-11 - 2021-04-12 |
Apr 12 1782 Battle at Les Saintes: British fleet under Admiral George Rodney defeats the French fleet under Comte de Grasse off Dominica in the West Indies. Prevents a planned French and Spanish invasion of Jamaica.<span class="text-center">Learn More</sp |
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| 2021-04-11 (17:10:41 - 21:10:43) |
Apr 11 1830 Robert Schumann hears the violinist Paganini play in Frankfurt |
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Apr 11 1831 The 12th century Lewis chess pieces are exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sand bank on the Scottish Isle of Lewis<span class="text-center">Learn More</span> |
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| 2021-04-10 (11:10:34 - 21:10:36) |
Apr 10 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico |
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| 2018-04-10 - 2021-04-10 |
Apr 10 1925 Scribners publishes 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald |
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| 2021-04-09 (17:10:30 - 21:10:33) |
Apr 09 1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz |
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| 2020-05-31 - 2020-10-04 |
May 28 1521 Pope Charles V
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| 2020-05-28 - 2020-05-31 |
May 28 1521 Pope Charles V |
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May 27 1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in historyLearn More >> |
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| 2020-05-27 (04:56:25 - 16:56:35) |
May 27 1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in historyLea |
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| 2020-05-26 - 2020-05-27 |
May 26 1915 H. H. Asquith forms a coalition government in the United Kingdom |
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| 2020-05-25 - 2020-05-26 |
May 25 1660 King Charles II of England lands in Dover |
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| 2020-05-24 - 2020-05-25 |
May 24 1660 English king Charles II visits Netherlands |
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| 2020-05-23 - 2020-05-24 |
May 23 1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ('The Liberator') |
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| 2020-05-23 (06:56:10 - 19:56:11) |
May 23 1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ('The Liberato |
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| 2020-05-22 - 2020-05-23 |
May 22 1799 Napoleon makes statement in support of re-establishing Jerusalem for Jews |
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| 2020-05-21 - 2020-05-22 |
May 21 1933 Mount Davidson Cross, San Francisco, lit by FDR via telegraph |
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| 2020-05-20 - 2020-05-21 |
May 20 1867 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills' proposals on women's suffrage |
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May 19 1975 27th Emmy Awards: 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', Robert Blake + Jean Marsh win |
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May 18 1952 Professor Learn More >> |
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| 2020-05-17 - 2020-05-18 |
May 17 1544 Scot Earl Matthew Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII |
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| 2020-05-16 - 2020-05-17 |
May 16 1866 Charles E. Hires invents 'Hires Root Beer' |
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| 2020-05-15 (02:55:21 - 22:55:28) |
May 15 1944 George VI discuss the plan for D-Day |
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| 2020-05-14 - 2020-05-15 |
May 14 1832 Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture 'Hebrides' premieres in London |
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| 2020-05-13 - 2020-05-14 |
May 13 1913 1st four-engined aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia) |
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| 2020-05-12 - 2020-05-13 |
May 12 1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)Read the Article >> |
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| 2020-05-11 - 2020-05-12 |
May 11 1972 Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams + cash |
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| 2020-05-10 - 2020-05-11 |
May 10 1768 John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for 'The North Briton' severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London. |
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| 2020-05-10 (16:54:54 - 21:54:51) |
May 10 1768 John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for 'The North Briton' severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London |
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| 2020-05-09 - 2020-05-10 |
May 09 1956 War Reparations and Peace Settlement between Philippines and Japan was finally signed at Malacañang Palace under Magsaysay administration |
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| 2020-05-08 - 2020-05-09 |
May 08 1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Learn More >> |
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| 2020-05-07 - 2020-05-08 |
May 07 1846 First printed copies of 'Poems' by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë received, published under pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell (2 copies sold) |
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| 2020-05-07 (14:54:26 - 17:54:26) |
May 07 1846 First printed copies of 'Poems' by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë received, published under pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell (2 copies s |
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| 2020-05-06 - 2020-05-07 |
May 06 1906 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia claims right to legislate by decree and restricts the power of the Duma (Russian Parliament) |
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| 2020-05-05 - 2020-05-06 |
May 05 1494 On 2nd voyage to New World Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay |
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| 2020-05-04 - 2020-05-05 |
May 04 1944 'Gaslight', starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released |
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May 02 1863 Stonewall Jackson attacking Chancellorsville is wounded by his own men |
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| 2020-05-01 - 2020-05-02 |
May 01 305 Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. |
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| 2020-04-30 - 2020-05-01 |
Apr 30 1939 Lou Gehrig sets a MLB record playing his 2,130th consecutive and final game for the New York Yankees. |
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| 2020-04-29 - 2020-04-30 |
Apr 29 1701 Drenthe, Netherlands, adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701Read the Article >> |
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| 2020-04-28 - 2020-04-29 |
Apr 28 1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia |
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| 2020-04-28 (01:26:23 - 15:26:26) |
Apr 28 1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific |
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| 2018-04-27 - 2020-04-28 |
Apr 27 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends |
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| 2020-04-26 - 2020-04-27 |
Apr 26 1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn |
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| 2020-04-25 - 2020-04-26 |
Apr 25 1644 Last Ming Emperor Chongzhen hangs himself from a tree on Jing Mountain, Beijing, rather than be captured by forces of Li Zicheng |
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| 2020-04-24 - 2020-04-25 |
Apr 24 1898 Spanish-American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from CubaRead the Article >> |
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| 2020-04-23 - 2020-04-24 |
Apr 23 1597 Elizabeth I of England in attendance |
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| 2020-04-22 - 2020-04-23 |
Apr 22 1934 US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin. with 2 dead and 4 inju |
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| 2020-04-22 (03:25:43 - 23:25:48) |
Apr 22 1934 US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin. with 2 dead and 4 injured |
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| 2020-04-21 - 2020-04-22 |
Apr 21 1536 Anne Boleyn's downfall while feigning illness |
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| 2020-04-20 - 2020-04-21 |
Apr 20 1792 Amidst the French Revolution, France declares war on Austria and Prussia, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars |
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| 2020-04-19 - 2020-04-20 |
Apr 19 1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church |
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| 2020-04-18 - 2020-04-19 |
Apr 18 1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid in the Vatican by Pope Learn More >> |
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| 2020-04-17 - 2020-04-18 |
Apr 17 1808 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships |
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| 2020-04-16 - 2020-04-17 |
Apr 16 1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration |
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| 2020-04-15 - 2020-04-16 |
Apr 15 1689 French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain |
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| 2020-03-18 - 2020-04-15 |
Mar 18 37 Roman Senate annuls Caligula = Little Boots) emperor |
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| 2020-03-17 - 2020-03-18 |
Mar 17 1956 8th Emmy Awards: 'Ed Sullivan Show', Phil Silvers Show + Lucy Ball win |
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| 2020-03-16 - 2020-03-17 |
Mar 16 1792 King Learn More >> |
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| 2020-03-15 - 2020-03-16 |
Mar 15 1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia |
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| 2020-03-14 - 2020-03-15 |
Mar 14 1899 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a 'Navigable Balloon' |
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| 2020-03-13 - 2020-03-14 |
Mar 13 1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers (US Civil War) |
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| 2020-03-12 - 2020-03-13 |
Mar 12 1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm |
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| 2020-03-11 - 2020-03-12 |
Mar 11 1862 12] General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief |
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| 2020-03-10 - 2020-03-11 |
Mar 10 1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army |
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| 2020-03-05 - 2020-03-10 |
Mar 05 1774 John Hancock delivers the fourth annual Massacre Day oration, a commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's stature as a leading Patriot |
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| 2020-03-04 - 2020-03-05 |
Mar 04 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th President of the USA |
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| 2020-03-01 - 2020-03-04 |
Mar 01 1628 Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date |
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| 2020-02-29 - 2020-03-01 |
Feb 29 1768 Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski joins the Bar Confederation to defend the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence |
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| 2019-02-28 - 2020-02-29 |
Feb 28 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion |
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| 2020-02-27 - 2020-02-28 |
Feb 27 1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket v England in 223 minutes |
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| 2020-02-26 - 2020-02-27 |
Feb 26 1980 New Zealand cricket captain Geoff Howarth 147 and Richard Hadlee 103 hold off West Indies pace quartet of Roberts, Garner, Holding and Croft during famous 2nd Test draw at Christchurch |
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| 2020-02-25 - 2020-02-26 |
Feb 25 138 The Emperor Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor |
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| 2020-02-24 - 2020-02-25 |
Feb 24 1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy |
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| 2020-02-23 - 2020-02-24 |
Feb 23 1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition sets off from Mexico in search of the 7 cities of Cibola |
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| 2020-02-22 - 2020-02-23 |
Feb 22 1633 St. Peter's Baldachin, the cathedral's sculptural centerpiece, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is inaugurated by Pope Urban VIII in Rome |
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| 2020-02-21 - 2020-02-22 |
Feb 21 1941 Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general |
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| 2020-02-20 - 2020-02-21 |
Feb 20 1932 Pierre Laval's first French government falls |
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| 2020-02-19 - 2020-02-20 |
Feb 19 1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area |
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| 2020-02-19 (03:19:50 - 18:19:54) |
Feb 19 1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New |
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| 2020-02-18 - 2020-02-19 |
Feb 18 1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore. |
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| 2020-02-18 (03:19:44 - 23:19:50) |
Feb 18 1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fil |
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| 2020-01-31 - 2020-02-18 |
Jan 31 1504 Under the Treaty of Lyon, French King Louis XII cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon after defeat in the Italian War of 1499–1504 |
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| 2020-01-30 - 2020-01-31 |
Jan 30 1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years |
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| 2020-01-29 - 2020-01-30 |
Jan 29 1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term |
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| 2020-01-28 - 2020-01-29 |
Jan 28 1770 Augustus FitzRoy resigns |
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| 2018-01-27 - 2020-01-28 |
Jan 27 1591 Scottish schoolmaster Dr. John Fian burned for witchcraft at Castle Hill, Edinburgh by order King James VI. Part of the Berwick witch trials. |
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| 2020-01-26 - 2020-01-27 |
Jan 26 1340 English king Edward III proclaimed king of France |
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| 2020-01-25 - 2020-01-26 |
Jan 25 41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate |
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| 2020-01-24 - 2020-01-25 |
Jan 24 1839 Charles Darwin elected Fellow of the Royal Society |
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| 2018-01-23 - 2020-01-24 |
Jan 23 1656 French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales |
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| 2020-01-22 - 2020-01-23 |
Jan 22 1998 Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time |
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| 2018-01-21 - 2020-01-22 |
Jan 21 1903 Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam |
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| 2020-01-20 - 2020-01-21 |
Jan 20 1905 US begins supervising the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing President Theodore Roosevelt's 'Corollary' to the Monroe Do |
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| 2020-01-20 (01:16:41 - 16:16:43) |
Jan 20 1905 US begins supervising the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing President Theodore Roosevelt's 'Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine |
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| 2020-01-19 - 2020-01-20 |
Jan 19 1812 Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm C |
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| 2020-01-19 (01:16:34 - 21:16:39) |
Jan 19 1812 Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo |
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| 2020-01-17 - 2020-01-19 |
Jan 17 1864 General James Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem, Tennessee |
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| 2020-01-16 - 2020-01-17 |
Jan 16 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb |
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| 2020-01-15 - 2020-01-16 |
Jan 15 1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, marking the beginning of the Third Saudi State |
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| 2020-01-14 - 2020-01-15 |
Jan 14 1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South |
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| 2020-01-13 - 2020-01-14 |
Jan 13 1605 Controversial play 'Eastward Hoe' by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison. |
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| 2020-01-12 - 2020-01-13 |
Jan 12 1959 American record company Motown is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records |
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| 2020-01-11 - 2020-01-12 |
Jan 11 1787 Titania + Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel |
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| 2020-01-10 - 2020-01-11 |
Jan 10 1952 'The Greatest Show on Earth', directed and produced by James Stewart and Charlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953) |
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| 2020-01-09 - 2020-01-10 |
Jan 09 1493 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus |
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| 2020-01-08 - 2020-01-09 |
Jan 08 1816 Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity |
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| 2020-01-07 - 2020-01-08 |
Jan 07 1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of |
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| 2020-01-07 (11:15:20 - 23:15:22) |
Jan 07 1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare |
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| 2020-01-07 (01:15:17 - 10:15:22) |
Jan 07 1935 French Foreign minister Benito Mussolini sign the Franco-Italian Agreement |
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| 2020-01-04 - 2020-01-07 |
Jan 04 1780 Snowstorm hits George Washington's army at Morristown, New Jersey |
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| 2020-01-03 - 2020-01-04 |
Jan 03 1431 Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon |
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| 2020-01-02 - 2020-01-03 |
Jan 02 1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) |
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| 2020-01-01 - 2020-01-02 |
Jan 01 1831 William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal |
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| 2019-12-28 - 2020-01-01 |
Dec 28 1993 Andrea Bocelli makes his classical debut singing at a concert at Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia |
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| 2019-12-23 - 2019-12-25 |
Dec 23 1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress |
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| 2019-12-22 - 2019-12-23 |
Dec 22 1965 'Doctor Zhivago' based on the novel by Julie Christie premieres in NYC |
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| 2019-12-21 - 2019-12-22 |
Dec 21 1784 John Jay becomes acting US Secretary of State (1789-990) |
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| 2019-12-20 - 2019-12-21 |
Dec 20 1974 George Harrison releases his 'Dark Horse' album in UK |
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| 2019-12-13 - 2019-12-20 |
Dec 13 1864 War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay officially declares war on Brazil, invades the next day |
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| 2019-12-12 - 2019-12-13 |
Dec 12 1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitutionLearn More >> |
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| 2019-12-11 - 2019-12-12 |
Dec 11 1620 Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the 'First Encounter' |
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| 2019-12-11 (01:11:30 - 14:11:34) |
Dec 11 1959 NY Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri |
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| 2018-12-10 - 2019-12-11 |
Dec 10 1510 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim populati |
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| 2018-12-10 - 2019-12-10 |
Dec 10 1510 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque who puts the Muslim population to the sword |
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| 2019-12-08 - 2019-12-10 |
Dec 08 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his 'Atoms for Peace' speech at the United Nations in New York |
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| 2019-12-07 - 2019-12-08 |
Dec 07 1787 Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the US constitutionLearn More >> |
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| 2019-11-25 - 2019-12-07 |
Nov 25 1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points |
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| 2019-11-24 - 2019-11-25 |
Nov 24 1979 US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent OrangeLearn More >> |
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| 2019-11-23 - 2019-11-24 |
Nov 23 1904 III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St LouisLearn More >> |
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| 2019-11-22 - 2019-11-23 |
Nov 22 1923 Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death |
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| 2019-11-21 - 2019-11-22 |
Nov 21 1946 'The Best Years of Our Lives', film directed by William Wyler, based on MacKinlay Kantor's novella Glory for Me, starring Fredric March, is released |
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| 2019-11-21 (03:09:34 - 23:09:37) |
Nov 21 1946 'The Best Years of Our Lives', film directed by William Wyler, based on MacKinlay Kantor's novella Glory for Me, starring Fredric March, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1947) |
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| 2019-11-20 - 2019-11-21 |
Nov 20 1952 Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia. |
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| 2019-11-19 - 2019-11-20 |
Nov 19 1850 Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth |
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| 2019-11-18 - 2019-11-19 |
Nov 18 1930 Musical 'Smiles' with Fred Astaire premieres in NYC |
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| 2019-11-17 - 2019-11-18 |
Nov 17 1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people. |
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| 2019-11-16 - 2019-11-17 |
Nov 16 1972 British Prime Minister Edward Heath warns against a Unilateral Declaration of Independence |
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| 2018-11-15 - 2019-11-16 |
Nov 15 1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal |
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| 2019-11-14 - 2019-11-15 |
Nov 14 1524 Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia |
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| 2019-11-13 - 2019-11-14 |
Nov 13 1946 Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI v the MCC |
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| 2019-11-12 - 2019-11-13 |
Nov 12 1912 British explorer Robert Scott's diary + body found in Antarctica |
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| 2017-11-11 - 2019-11-12 |
Nov 11 1807 Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the name 'Gotham' with New York City |
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| 2019-11-07 (01:44:11 - 15:44:17) |
Nov 07 1820 James Monroe re-elected US president |
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| 2019-11-04 - 2019-11-07 |
Nov 04 1929 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica. |
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| 2019-11-04 - 2019-11-06 |
Nov 04 1929 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountai |
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| 2019-11-03 - 2019-11-04 |
Nov 03 1716 Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom |
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| 2019-11-02 - 2019-11-03 |
Nov 02 1947 Howard Hughes flies 'Spruce Goose', a huge wooden airplane for the first and last time |
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| 2019-11-01 - 2019-11-02 |
Nov 01 1671 French King Louis XIV + RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
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| 2019-10-31 - 2019-11-01 |
Oct 31 1724 George Frideric Handel's opera 'Tamerlano' premieres at the King's Theatre in London |
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| 2019-10-30 - 2019-10-31 |
Oct 30 1077 Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the bishop of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor) |
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| 2019-10-29 - 2019-10-30 |
Oct 29 1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for British South Africa Company |
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| 2019-10-28 - 2019-10-29 |
Oct 28 1922 Italian fascists conduct the March on Rome, leading to the assumption of power by Benito Mussolini |
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| 2019-10-27 - 2019-10-28 |
Oct 27 312 Roman Emperor Learn More >> |
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| 2019-10-26 - 2019-10-27 |
Oct 26 1919 Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres in Queen's Hall London |
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| 2019-10-21 (01:59:00 - 20:59:04) |
Oct 21 335 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules that Jews are not allowed to purchase and circumcise Christian slaves |
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| 2019-10-20 - 2019-10-21 |
Oct 20 1911 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210W 46th St, NYC |
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| 2017-10-19 - 2019-10-20 |
Oct 19 1216 King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry |
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| 2019-10-15 - 2019-10-19 |
Oct 15 1966 LBJ signs a bill creating US Department of Transportation |
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| 2019-10-13 (01:40:45 - 20:40:51) |
Oct 13 1864 Battle of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (Mosby's Raid) |
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| 2019-10-12 - 2019-10-13 |
Oct 12 1518 Pontifical ambassador interrogates Learn More >> |
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| 2019-10-11 - 2019-10-12 |
Oct 11 1977 American inventor Gordon Gould issued his first US patent for a optically pumped laser amplifier, 20 years after first claiming to have invented the |
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| 2019-10-11 (01:40:30 - 21:40:34) |
Oct 11 1977 American inventor Gordon Gould issued his first US patent for a optically pumped laser amplifier, 20 years after first claiming to have invented the laser |
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| 2019-10-10 - 2019-10-11 |
Oct 10 1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Director of the State Council of China |
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| 2019-10-09 - 2019-10-10 |
Oct 09 1781 Americans under George Washington and the French under comte de Rochambeau begin bombardment of Learn More >> |
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| 2019-10-07 - 2019-10-08 |
Oct 07 1492 Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course |
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| 2019-10-06 - 2019-10-07 |
Oct 06 1896 Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal is arrested en route to Cuba via Spain and imprisoned in Barcelona |
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| 2018-10-05 - 2019-10-06 |
Oct 05 1568 Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart |
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| 2018-10-04 - 2019-10-05 |
Oct 04 1809 William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland retires due to ill health |
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| 2019-10-03 - 2019-10-04 |
Oct 03 1712 The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor |
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| 2019-10-01 - 2019-10-03 |
Oct 01 1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James, Duke of York racing from Greenwich to Gravesend |
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| 2019-09-30 - 2019-10-01 |
Sep 30 1991 Jerry Springer's tabloid talk show 'The Jerry Springer Show' debuts |
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| 2019-09-29 - 2019-09-30 |
Sep 29 61 BC Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. |
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| 2019-09-28 - 2019-09-29 |
Sep 28 1066 Learn More >> |
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| 2019-09-27 - 2019-09-28 |
Sep 27 1905 The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper 'Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?', introducing t |
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| 2019-09-27 (02:38:48 - 23:38:53) |
Sep 27 1905 The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper 'Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?', introducing the equation E=mc². |
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| 2019-09-26 - 2019-09-27 |
Sep 26 1789 John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice |
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| 2019-09-25 - 2019-09-26 |
Sep 25 1949 Evangelist Billy Graham begins his 'Los Angeles Crusade' in a circus tent erected in a parking lot |
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| 2019-09-24 - 2019-09-25 |
Sep 24 1932 NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA |
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| 2019-09-23 - 2019-09-24 |
Sep 23 1561 King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida |
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| 2019-09-22 - 2019-09-23 |
Sep 22 1792 French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping the French king of his powers |
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| 2019-09-21 - 2019-09-22 |
Sep 21 1911 Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier loses the election to Robert Bordon of the Conservative Party |
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| 2019-09-20 - 2019-09-21 |
Sep 20 1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury |
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| 2019-09-20 (01:37:56 - 09:37:56) |
Sep 20 1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables |
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| 2019-09-19 - 2019-09-20 |
Sep 19 1356 English forces under Edward the Black Prince defeat French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King during the Hundred Years War |
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| 2019-09-18 - 2019-09-19 |
Sep 18 1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne |
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| 2019-09-17 - 2019-09-18 |
Sep 17 1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain |
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| 2019-09-16 - 2019-09-17 |
Sep 16 1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt |
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| 2019-09-15 - 2019-09-16 |
Sep 15 1795 'Lyrical Ballads' published by William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic movement (probable date) |
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| 2018-09-14 - 2019-09-15 |
Sep 14 1629 Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch: Spanish garrison surrenders to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange |
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| 2019-09-13 - 2019-09-14 |
Sep 13 1959 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her first of 4 US singles crowns; beats England's Christine Tr |
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| 2019-09-13 (03:37:09 - 21:37:14) |
Sep 13 1959 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her first of 4 US singles crowns; beats England's Christine Truman 6-1, 6-4 |
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| 2019-09-12 - 2019-09-13 |
Sep 12 1928 Katharine Hepburn's NYC stage debut in 'Night Hostess' |
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| 2019-09-11 - 2019-09-12 |
Sep 11 1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of the US Treasury |
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| 2019-09-10 - 2019-09-11 |
Sep 10 1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Virginia |
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| 2019-09-01 - 2019-09-10 |
Sep 01 1763 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow |
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| 2019-08-31 - 2019-09-01 |
Aug 31 1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagiarising 'My Sweet Lord' |
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| 2019-08-31 (00:35:38 - 00:35:38) |
Aug 31 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous 'The American Scholar' speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, declares |
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| 2019-08-30 (01:35:34 - 23:35:38) |
Aug 30 1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World |
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| 2019-08-28 - 2019-08-29 |
Aug 28 1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games |
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| 2019-08-27 - 2019-08-28 |
Aug 27 1990 'No Fences' 2nd studio album by Garth Brooks is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1991) |
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| 2019-08-26 - 2019-08-27 |
Aug 26 1846 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio 'Elijah' premieres at the Birmingham Festival in England |
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| 2019-08-25 - 2019-08-26 |
Aug 25 1948 Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's |
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| 2019-08-25 (01:34:55 - 17:35:02) |
Aug 25 1967 The Beatles go to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
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| 2018-08-24 - 2019-08-25 |
Aug 24 1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on the HMS Beagle |
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Aug 23 1911 British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany |
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Aug 22 1582 King James VI of Scotland captured |
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Aug 21 1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns |
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Aug 20 1931 45th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (6-4, 6-1) |
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Aug 19 1587 Sigismund III becomes King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania |
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Aug 18 1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues 'Proclamation of Neutrality' |
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Aug 17 1579 Francois of Anjou visits English Queen Elizabeth I |
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Aug 16 1513 Battle of the Spurs at Guinegate (now Eguinegatte): Henry VIII of England and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I beat France |
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Aug 15 1971 US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices + rents |
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Aug 12 1492 Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World |
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Aug 05 1975 Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown |
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Aug 04 1772 English poet and artist William Blake aged 14 is first apprenticed to engraver James Basire in London |
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Aug 03 1804 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, France completing his 5 year expedition to Latin America |
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Aug 02 1776 Formal signing of the US Learn More >> |
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Aug 01 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonists reach Lundi |
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Jul 31 1498 Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Trinidad on his third voyage |
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Jul 30 1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions |
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Jul 29 1905 US Secretary of State William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in ret |
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Jul 29 1905 US Secretary of State William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines |
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Jul 28 1914 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow |
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Jul 27 1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia |
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Jul 26 1656 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent |
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Jul 25 1775 Maryland issues currency depicting Learn More >> |
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| 2019-07-24 - 2019-07-25 |
Jul 24 2017 Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators |
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Jul 23 1532 Emperor Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League sign Peace of Nuremberg |
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Jul 19 1941 Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon 'The Midnight Snack' by Joseph Barbera |
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| 2018-07-18 - 2019-07-19 |
Jul 18 1914 Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance |
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Jul 17 1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor |
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| 2019-07-17 (01:29:46 - 12:29:47) |
Jul 17 1054 Holy Roman Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king |
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Jul 16 1819 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen sets sail to explore Antarctica for Tsar Alexander I |
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Jul 16 1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope |
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| 2019-07-16 (04:29:37 - 11:29:39) |
Jul 16 1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the |
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Jul 15 1410 Battle of Grunwald (First Battle of Tannenburg, Battle of Žalgiris), one of Medieval Europe's largest battles during Poland-Lithuanian Teutonic War |
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Jul 15 1410 Battle of Grunwald (First Battle of Tannenburg, Battle of Žalgiris), one of Medieval Europe's largest battles during Poland-Lithuanian Teutonic War. Polish King Władysław Jagiełło and Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas defeat Teutonic Ulrich |
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Jul 14 1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille PrisonLearn More >> |
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Jul 14 1853 US President Franklin Pierce opens World Fair - Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York |
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Jul 14 Charles V conquers Tunis |
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| 2019-07-14 (16:29:25 - 17:29:26) |
Jul 14 Robert Muldoon's National Party |
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| 2019-07-14 (15:29:23 - 15:29:23) |
Jul 14 Jack Nicholson, is released |
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| 2019-07-14 (01:29:19 - 14:29:22) |
Jul 14 <p>Charles V conquers Tunis |
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Jul 13 <p>Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace |
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Jul 12 <p>Alfonso V of Aragon becomes King of Naples |
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Jul 11 <p>David Bowie releases the single 'Space Oddity' 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon |
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Jul 09 <p>Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000 |
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| 2019-07-08 - 2019-07-09 |
Jul 08 <p>Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island |
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| 2019-07-07 - 2019-07-08 |
Jul 07 <p>Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982 |
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| 2019-07-07 (15:28:25 - 15:28:25) |
Jul 07 <p>Bobby Riggs beats fellow American Elwood Cooke 2-6, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 for Wimbledon sweep, also won doubles + mixed doubles titles |
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| 2019-07-07 (01:28:19 - 14:28:26) |
Jul 07 <p>Lou Gehrig drives in 4 runs with HR + double |
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| 2019-06-25 - 2019-07-07 |
Jun 25 <p>Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy, the 1st woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD |
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| 2019-06-24 - 2019-06-25 |
Jun 24 1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey |
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| 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-24 |
Jun 23 1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty 'not sworn to, nor broken' |
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Jun 22 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II |
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| 2019-06-21 - 2019-06-22 |
Jun 21 1672 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht |
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| 2019-06-20 - 2019-06-21 |
Jun 20 1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 2018-06-19 - 2019-06-20 |
Jun 19 1940 German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg |
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| 2019-06-18 - 2019-06-19 |
Jun 18 1538 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V + King French I |
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| 2019-06-17 - 2019-06-18 |
Jun 17 1983 Lorraine Warren exorcise a 'werewolf demon' from Bill Ramsey, although the lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question |
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| 2019-06-16 (02:22:02 - 20:22:03) |
Jun 16 1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever exec |
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Jun 16 1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century AmericaMore >> |
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Jun 15 1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, the day after Congress establishes the force |
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Jun 14 1847 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner |
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Jun 13 1547 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent |
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Jun 12 1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples |
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| 2019-06-11 - 2019-06-12 |
Jun 11 1927 Babe Ruth hits 19th and 20th of 60 HRs |
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| 2019-06-10 - 2019-06-11 |
Jun 10 1957 LPGA Championship, Churchill Valley CC: Louise Suggs wins her 10th major tile by 3 strokes from Wiffi Smith |
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| 2019-06-09 - 2019-06-10 |
Jun 09 68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging |
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| 2019-06-08 - 2019-06-09 |
Jun 08 1779 Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy on HMS Foudroyant set sail against Spanish fleet |
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| 2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08 |
Jun 07 1527 Pope Clement VII surrenders to Emperor Charles V's armies |
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| 2019-06-06 - 2019-06-07 |
Jun 06 1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar |
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| 2019-06-05 - 2019-06-06 |
Jun 05 1799 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition |
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| 2019-06-04 - 2019-06-05 |
Jun 04 1896 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit |
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| 2018-06-03 - 2019-06-04 |
Jun 03 1083 Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral |
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| 2019-05-31 - 2019-06-03 |
May 31 1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast |
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| 2019-05-30 - 2019-05-31 |
May 30 1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad |
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| 2019-05-29 - 2019-05-30 |
May 29 1660 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end |
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| 2019-05-29 (01:20:32 - 23:20:36) |
May 29 1660 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to |
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| 2019-05-28 - 2019-05-29 |
May 28 1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution |
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| 2018-05-27 - 2019-05-28 |
May 27 1703 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great |
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| 2019-05-26 - 2019-05-27 |
May 26 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy |
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May 25 1927 More >> |
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| 2019-05-24 - 2019-05-25 |
May 24 1775 John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress |
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| 2018-05-23 - 2019-05-24 |
May 23 1059 Henri I crowns his son King Philip I (called the Amorous) of France |
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May 20 1959 Shah of Persia Mohammed Reza Pahlavi visits Netherlands |
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| 2018-05-19 - 2019-05-20 |
May 19 1885 German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland |
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| 2019-05-18 - 2019-05-19 |
May 18 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe |
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May 17 2001 US President George W. Bush calls for reduced regulations to encourage more oil, gas, and nuclear production |
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May 16 1860 -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate |
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May 15 1796 First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph with French troops |
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May 14 1853 Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk |
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May 13 1989 Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game |
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| 2019-05-08 - 2019-05-13 |
May 08 1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs the first of many contracts with the Congolian monarch |
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May 07 1789 First US Presidential inaugural ball (for George Washington in NYC) |
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May 06 1840 World's first adhesive postage stamp, the 'Penny Black', is first used in Great BritainMore >> |
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May 05 1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in 'modern' baseball for Boston Americans against Philadelphia Athletics's (3-0) |
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| 2019-05-04 (02:18:07 - 23:18:14) |
May 04 1535 Five Carthusian monks from London Charterhouse monastery hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head |
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May 03 1934 Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours |
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May 02 1595 King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Netherlands |
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| 2019-05-01 - 2019-05-02 |
May 01 1840 'Penny Black', the world's first adhesive postage stamp issued by Great BritainMore >> |
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| 2019-04-30 - 2019-05-01 |
Apr 30 1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America |
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Apr 29 1636 Prince Frederick Henry occupies Schenkenschans |
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| 2019-04-28 - 2019-04-29 |
Apr 28 1965 Barbra Streisand stars on 'My Name is Barbra' special on CBS |
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| 2019-04-27 - 2019-04-28 |
Apr 27 1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice |
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| 2019-04-26 - 2019-04-27 |
Apr 26 1975 Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in April |
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| 2019-04-25 - 2019-04-26 |
Apr 25 1953 James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in 'Nature' magazine |
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| 2018-04-25 - 2019-04-25 |
Apr 25 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes 'Robinson Crusoe' |
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| 2019-04-24 - 2019-04-25 |
Apr 24 1793 French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris |
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| 2019-04-23 - 2019-04-24 |
Apr 23 1849 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and members of the Petrashevsky Circle are arrested in St. Petersburg |
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| 2019-04-22 - 2019-04-23 |
Apr 22 1914 Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win |
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| 2019-04-21 - 2019-04-22 |
Apr 21 1526 Battle at Panipat: Central Asian conqueror More >> |
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| 2019-04-20 - 2019-04-21 |
Apr 20 1770 Captain James Cook arrives in New South Wales |
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| 2019-04-19 - 2019-04-20 |
Apr 19 1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia |
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| 2019-04-19 (01:16:26 - 18:16:28) |
Apr 19 1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week |
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Apr 18 1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning the 'regulars are coming!' |
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| 2019-04-17 - 2019-04-18 |
Apr 17 1939 Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
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Apr 16 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.More >> |
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| 2019-04-16 (02:16:06 - 21:16:09) |
Apr 16 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable |
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Apr 15 1493 -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand + Isabella |
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Apr 14 1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day |
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| 2018-04-13 - 2019-04-14 |
Apr 13 1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio 'Messiah' performed for the 1st time at New Music Hall in Dublin |
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Apr 09 193 Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum |
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| 2019-04-08 - 2019-04-09 |
Apr 08 1781 Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379 |
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| 2019-04-07 - 2019-04-08 |
Apr 07 1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks, Florida from Seminole indians |
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| 2019-03-31 - 2019-04-07 |
Mar 31 1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in an address to the nation that he will not seek re-election |
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| 2019-03-28 - 2019-03-31 |
Mar 28 1920 Tomáš Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia |
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| 2018-03-27 - 2019-03-28 |
Mar 27 1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse) |
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| 2019-03-26 - 2019-03-27 |
Mar 26 2000 72nd Academy Awards: 'American Beauty', Hilary Swank win |
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| 2019-03-26 (01:14:48 - 15:14:51) |
Mar 26 1940 Ernest Hemingway + Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC |
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| 2019-03-25 - 2019-03-26 |
Mar 25 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America |
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| 2019-03-22 - 2019-03-25 |
Mar 22 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India |
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| 2018-03-21 - 2019-03-22 |
Mar 21 1610 King James I of England and VI of Scotland addresses English House of Commons |
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| 2019-03-20 - 2019-03-21 |
Mar 20 1948 20th Academy Awards: 'Gentleman's Agreement', Ronald Colman win |
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| 2019-03-19 - 2019-03-20 |
Mar 19 1942 FDR orders men between 45 + 64 to register for non-military duty |
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| 2019-03-18 - 2019-03-19 |
Mar 18 1904 First performance of Edward Elgar's 'In the South (Alassio)' |
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| 2018-03-17 - 2019-03-18 |
Mar 17 45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda |
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| 2019-03-16 - 2019-03-17 |
Mar 16 1527 Battle of Khanua: Mughal Emperor Babur defeats Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga consolidating Mughal power |
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| 2019-03-15 - 2019-03-16 |
Mar 15 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World |
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| 2019-03-14 - 2019-03-15 |
Mar 14 1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation |
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| 2019-03-13 - 2019-03-14 |
Mar 13 1929 Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket century |
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| 2019-03-12 - 2019-03-13 |
Mar 12 1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra' premieres in Venice |
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| 2019-03-11 - 2019-03-12 |
Mar 11 1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.More > |
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| 2019-03-11 (02:14:07 - 23:14:09) |
Mar 11 1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the Brit |
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Mar 10 1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches |
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Mar 09 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow |
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| 2019-03-06 - 2019-03-09 |
Mar 06 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society |
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| 2019-03-05 - 2019-03-06 |
Mar 05 1942 World première of Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony in Kuybyshev, Russia |
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| 2019-03-04 - 2019-03-05 |
Mar 04 1522 Anne Boleyn makes her debut at the English court at the Green Castle pageant |
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| 2019-03-03 - 2019-03-04 |
Mar 03 1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi |
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| 2018-03-02 - 2019-03-03 |
Mar 02 1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia |
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| 2019-03-01 - 2019-03-02 |
Mar 01 1633 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. |
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| 2019-02-26 - 2019-02-28 |
Feb 26 1910 Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the Prince of Wales day of arrival in South Africa a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans |
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| 2019-02-26 - 2019-02-27 |
Feb 26 1910 Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the Prince of Wales day of arrival in South Africa a day of mourning, in pr |
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| 2019-02-19 - 2019-02-26 |
Celebrate Chaoflux! |
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| 2019-02-04 - 2019-02-19 |
Feb 04 1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible |
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| 2019-02-03 - 2019-02-04 |
Feb 03 1959 'The Day the Music Died' plane crash kills musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J. P. Richardson and pilot near Clear Lake Iowa. |
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| 2018-02-02 - 2019-02-03 |
Feb 02 1901 Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England |
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| 2019-02-01 - 2019-02-02 |
Feb 01 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion |
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| 2019-01-31 - 2019-02-01 |
Jan 31 1851 American Gail Borden announces the invention of condensed milk |
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| 2018-01-30 - 2019-01-31 |
Jan 30 1774 Captain James Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record) |
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| 2019-01-29 - 2019-01-30 |
Jan 29 1594 Mathematician John Napier dedicates his 'Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John' to King James VI, predicts end of the world in 1688 o |
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| 2019-01-29 (01:12:02 - 23:12:02) |
Jan 29 1594 Mathematician John Napier dedicates his 'Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John' to King James VI, predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700 |
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| 2019-01-28 - 2019-01-29 |
Jan 28 1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners |
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| 2019-01-27 - 2019-01-28 |
Jan 27 1958 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Ashley Cooper wins 2nd straight Australian title; beats fellow Australian Malcolm Anderson 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 |
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| 2018-01-26 - 2019-01-27 |
Jan 26 1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night |
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| 2019-01-25 - 2019-01-26 |
Jan 25 1573 Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu |
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| 2019-01-16 - 2019-01-25 |
Jan 16 1832 Charles Darwin lands at Porto Prayo in the Cape Verde islands, the first landing of his HMS Beagle voyage |
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| 2018-01-15 - 2019-01-16 |
Jan 15 1785 Mozart's string quartet opus 10 premieres |
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| 2019-01-08 - 2019-01-15 |
Jan 08 1705 George Frideric Handel's 1st opera 'Almira' premieres in Hamburg |
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| 2019-01-04 - 2019-01-08 |
Jan 04 1903 Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company |
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| 2019-01-03 - 2019-01-04 |
Jan 03 1777 General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey |
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| 2019-01-02 - 2019-01-03 |
Jan 02 1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitutionMore >> |
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| 2019-01-01 (02:09:22 - 22:09:27) |
Jan 01 1758 The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the 'starting point' for standardized species names across the animal kingdom, based on the binomial nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus 10th edition of Systema Naturae |
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| 2019-01-01 (01:09:28 - 20:09:36) |
Jan 01 1758 The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the 'starting point' for standardized species names across the animal kingdom, bas |
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| 2018-12-31 - 2019-01-01 |
Dec 31 1973 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Chris Evert 7-6, 4-6, 6-0 for her first of 4 home singles titles |
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| 2017-12-30 - 2018-12-31 |
Dec 30 1896 Filipino nationalist José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila by the Spanish |
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| 2018-12-29 (04:09:10 - 22:09:14) |
Dec 29 1857 Franz Liszt's 'Die Hunnenschlacht' premieres in Weimar |
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| 2018-12-28 - 2018-12-29 |
Dec 28 1612 First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a 'fixed star' without realising it is a planet |
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| 2018-12-27 - 2018-12-28 |
Dec 27 1923 George Bernard Shaw's 'St Joan' premieres in NYC |
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| 2018-12-27 (18:08:59 - 22:09:00) |
Dec 27 1941 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 7th Symphony in Siberia |
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| 2018-12-27 (01:08:54 - 14:08:59) |
Dec 27 1978 CBS Television's premiere of its version of 'Les Miserables', starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins |
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| 2018-12-26 - 2018-12-27 |
Dec 26 1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would 'stop at nothing' |
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| 2018-12-25 (02:08:43 - 23:08:48) |
Dec 25 1492 More >> |
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| 2018-12-24 (02:08:37 - 23:08:43) |
Dec 24 1930 Sukarno sentenced to four years in prison by Indonesian authorities in Bandung, Dutch East Indies |
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| 2018-12-23 (01:08:33 - 23:08:37) |
Dec 23 1921 Gangster Carlo Gambino enters the United States as an illegal immigrant on the SS Vincenzo Florio |
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Dec 22 1849 The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by firing squad is called off at the last second |
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Dec 21 1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia |
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Dec 20 1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna |
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Dec 19 1776 Thomas Paine publishes his 1st 'American Crisis' essay beginning'These are the times that try men's souls' (date disputed) |
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Dec 18 1935 Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia |
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Dec 17 1398 Timur (Tamerlane) captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultans armoured elephants |
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Dec 16 1918 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds |
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Dec 15 1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death |
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Dec 11 1730 Voltaire's 'Brutus' premieres in Paris |
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Dec 09 1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, the 'American Minerva' |
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Dec 08 1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas |
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Dec 07 1836 Martin Van Buren elected the 8th President of the United States |
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Dec 05 1717 English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop 'Margaret' and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bos |
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Dec 05 1717 English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop 'Margaret' and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides 1st record of Blackbeard's appearance, and the source for his name |
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Dec 04 1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st President to travel outside US while in office |
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Dec 03 1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial |
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Nov 23 1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivorMore >> |
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Nov 22 1961 St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws |
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Nov 21 1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar |
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Nov 20 1906 George Bernard Shaw's 'Doctor's Dilemma' premieres in London |
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Nov 16 1995 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery |
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Nov 14 1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs) |
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Nov 13 1940 'Fantasia' animated film by Walt Disney, starring Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, is released |
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Nov 12 1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal |
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Nov 11 1158 Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy |
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Nov 10 1926 Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial, he only makes 37 |
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| 2018-11-09 - 2018-11-10 |
Nov 09 1923 Beer Hall Putsch's second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler flees |
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Nov 08 1861 USS San Jacinto commanded by Charles Wilkes captures two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent, almost causing a war between the US and the UK |
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| 2018-11-08 (01:03:48 - 23:03:56) |
Nov 08 1861 USS San Jacinto commanded by Charles Wilkes captures two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent, almost causing a war between the |
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| 2018-10-14 - 2018-11-08 |
Oct 14 1930 George Gershwin and Ira Gershin's musical 'Girl Crazy' starring Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman premieres in NYC |
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Oct 07 1907 France's More >> |
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Oct 06 1911 Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game |
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Sep 25 1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British |
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Sep 24 1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America |
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Sep 23 1780 British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point |
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Sep 22 66 Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica |
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| 2018-09-21 - 2018-09-22 |
Sep 21 1950 George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States. |
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| 2018-09-20 - 2018-09-21 |
Sep 20 1777 Battle of Paoli; British forces under Major General Charles Grey attacks Brigadier General Anthony Wayne's encampment. Claims the British gave no quarter leads to engagement becoming known as the |
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| 2018-09-20 (02:56:48 - 21:56:55) |
Sep 20 1777 Battle of Paoli; British forces under Major General Charles Grey attacks Brigadier General Anthony Wayne's encampment. Claims the British gave no qu |
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| 2018-09-19 - 2018-09-20 |
Sep 19 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance |
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| 2018-09-15 - 2018-09-19 |
Sep 15 1968 'Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park' Show on CBS TV |
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| 2018-09-13 - 2018-09-14 |
Sep 13 122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England |
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| 2018-09-12 - 2018-09-13 |
Sep 12 1624 1st submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I |
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| 2018-09-11 - 2018-09-12 |
Sep 11 1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pennysylvania; Americans lose to the British, Polish soldier George Washington |
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Sep 10 1776 Nathan Hale volunteers |
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| 2018-09-09 - 2018-09-10 |
Sep 09 1957 US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction |
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| 2018-09-03 - 2018-09-09 |
Sep 03 1964 US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy resigns |
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| 2018-09-02 - 2018-09-03 |
Sep 02 1901 Theodore Roosevelt advises 'Speak softly + carry a big stick' |
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| 2018-08-31 - 2018-09-02 |
Aug 31 1897 British General Kitchener's army occupies Berber, North of Khartoum |
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| 2018-08-30 - 2018-08-31 |
Aug 30 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forcesMore >> |
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| 2018-08-29 - 2018-08-30 |
Aug 29 1947 B.R. Ambedkar is appointed chairman of the drafting committee for the Indian constitution |
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| 2018-08-28 - 2018-08-29 |
Aug 28 1640 Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn |
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| 2018-08-25 - 2018-08-28 |
Aug 25 1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run |
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| 2018-08-23 - 2018-08-24 |
Aug 23 1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada |
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| 2018-08-21 - 2018-08-23 |
Aug 21 1264 Kublai Khan accepts the surrender of his younger brother Ariq Böke at Xanadu, at the end of the Mongol civil war |
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| 2018-08-19 - 2018-08-20 |
Aug 19 1524 Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, France |
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| 2018-08-16 - 2018-08-17 |
Aug 16 1880 The French state commissions sculptor Auguste Rodin for a large sculpted doorway 'The Gates of Hell' for the proposed Musée des Arts Décoratifs |
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| 2018-08-14 - 2018-08-15 |
Aug 14 1585 Queen Elizabeth I of England refuses sovereignty of Netherlands |
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| 2018-08-12 - 2018-08-14 |
Aug 12 1867 US President Andrew Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Celebrate Zaraday |
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| 2018-08-12 (01:51:13 - 09:51:15) |
Aug 12 1955 US President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour |
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| 2018-08-11 - 2018-08-12 |
Aug 11 1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy |
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| 2018-08-10 - 2018-08-11 |
Aug 10 1942 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa |
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| 2018-08-10 (00:50:55 - 00:50:55) |
2018.08.09 - [14:04:04] Nach Beschuss aus Gaza greift Israel Hamas-Ziele an [23:49:03] Nahostkonflikt: Hamas gibt Ende der Kämpfe mit Israel bekannt |
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| 2018-08-09 (01:50:47 - 23:51:02) |
Aug 09 1655 Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell divides England into 11 districts |
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| 2018-08-08 - 2018-08-09 |
Aug 08 1788 King Louis XVI calls French States + Generals together |
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| 2018-08-07 - 2018-08-08 |
Aug 07 1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel 'Ulysses' |
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| 2018-08-06 - 2018-08-07 |
Aug 06 1953 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from military service in Korea; ends abbreviated season with .407 batting average |
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| 2018-08-06 (02:50:24 - 23:50:29) |
Aug 06 1953 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from military service in Korea; ends abbreviated season with .407 batting avera |
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| 2018-08-05 - 2018-08-06 |
Aug 05 1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution. |
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| 2018-08-04 - 2018-08-05 |
Aug 04 1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts on two counts of murder |
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| 2018-08-03 - 2018-08-04 |
Aug 03 1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding |
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| 2018-07-26 - 2018-08-03 |
Jul 26 1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America |
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| 2018-07-25 - 2018-07-26 |
Jul 25 1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway |
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| 2018-07-25 (01:42:41 - 23:42:44) |
Jul 25 1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher |
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| 2018-07-24 - 2018-07-25 |
Jul 24 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson |
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| 2018-07-23 - 2018-07-24 |
Jul 23 1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers |
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| 2018-07-22 - 2018-07-23 |
Jul 22 1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) |
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| 2018-07-21 - 2018-07-22 |
Jul 21 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt (Battle of Embabeh) against Mamluk rulers, wiping out most of the Egyptian army |
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| 2018-07-20 - 2018-07-21 |
Jul 20 1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names |
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| 2018-07-19 - 2018-07-20 |
Jul 19 1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die |
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| 2018-07-17 - 2018-07-18 |
Jul 17 1934 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland |
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| 2018-07-16 - 2018-07-17 |
Jul 16 1755 John Adams graduates Harvard |
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| 2018-07-15 - 2018-07-16 |
Jul 15 1898 Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus (a delicate network inside cells essential for the transmission and reception of information between cel |
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| 2018-07-15 (01:41:49 - 12:41:51) |
Jul 15 1898 Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus (a delicate network inside cells essential for the transmission and reception of information between cells) |
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| 2018-07-14 - 2018-07-15 |
Jul 14 1870 The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year |
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| 2018-07-13 - 2018-07-14 |
Jul 13 1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design |
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| 2018-07-12 - 2018-07-13 |
Jul 12 1861 Wild Bill Hickok reputed to have shot and killed David McCanles, possibly his first kill. Hickok later acquitted after found he acted in self defense. |
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| 2018-07-12 (14:41:25 - 23:41:28) |
Jul 12 1861 Wild Bill Hickok reputed to have shot and killed David McCanles, possibly his first kill. Hickok later acquitted after found he acted in self defens |
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| 2018-07-12 (01:41:27 - 13:41:32) |
Jul 12 1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2) |
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| 2018-07-11 - 2018-07-12 |
Jul 11 1789 French King Jacques Necker, sparking riots in Paris |
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| 2018-07-10 - 2018-07-11 |
Jul 10 1520 King Henry VIII of England sign Treaty of Calais |
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| 2018-07-09 - 2018-07-10 |
Jul 09 1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)More >> |
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| 2018-07-08 - 2018-07-09 |
Jul 08 1836 Charles Darwin reaches Saint Helena in HMS Beagle and takes up lodgings near the tomb of Napoleon |
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| 2018-07-06 - 2018-07-08 |
Jul 06 1969 Filming begins on 'Ned Kelly' starring Mick Jagger |
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| 2018-07-05 - 2018-07-06 |
Jul 05 1809 -6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles |
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| 2018-07-04 - 2018-07-05 |
MURRICA! |
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| 2018-07-04 (01:40:28 - 04:40:29) |
Jul 04 1187 Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon |
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| 2018-07-03 - 2018-07-04 |
Jul 03 1661 Portugal gives Tangier and Bombay to English King Charles II |
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| 2018-07-02 - 2018-07-03 |
Jul 02 1505 After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk |
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| 2018-07-01 - 2018-07-02 |
Jul 01 69 Roman General Vespasian is first proclaimed Emperor by troops in Egypt, during year of the four emperors |
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| 2018-06-30 (02:40:18 - 23:40:20) |
Jun 30 1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce |
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| 2018-06-30 (01:40:11 - 22:40:16) |
Jun 30 1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley an |
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Jun 29 1984 Carl Yastrzemski |
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| 2018-06-28 - 2018-06-29 |
Jun 28 1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London |
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Jun 27 1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King More >> |
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| 2018-06-25 - 2018-06-27 |
Jun 25 1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy, the 1st woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD |
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Jun 23 1532 Charles V |
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| 2018-06-22 - 2018-06-23 |
Jun 22 1946 Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites |
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| 2018-06-21 - 2018-06-22 |
Jun 21 1904 The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth |
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| 2018-06-21 (02:25:58 - 23:26:02) |
Jun 21 1904 The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth' |
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| 2018-06-20 - 2018-06-21 |
Jun 20 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901 |
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| 2018-06-18 - 2018-06-19 |
Jun 18 1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for US President |
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| 2018-06-17 - 2018-06-18 |
Jun 17 1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent |
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| 2018-06-16 - 2018-06-17 |
Jun 16 1974 73rd Men's French Open: Bjorn Borg beats Manuel Orantes (2-6, 6-7, 6-0, 6-1, 6-1) |
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| 2018-06-14 - 2018-06-15 |
Jun 14 1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of General George McClellan's advance |
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| 2018-06-13 - 2018-06-14 |
Jun 13 1828 Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator |
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| 2018-06-12 - 2018-06-13 |
Jun 12 1930 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn |
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| 2018-06-12 (01:25:07 - 13:25:16) |
Jun 12 1873 John William Strutt [Lord Raleigh] becomes President of the Royal Society (UK) |
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Jun 11 1876 Republicans pick Rutherford B. Hayes as US presidental candidate |
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| 2018-06-11 (01:24:59 - 14:25:09) |
Jun 11 1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove |
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Jun 10 1768 British customs officials seize John Hancock's ship, 'The Liberty', on the suspicion that Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties |
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| 2018-06-10 (01:25:01 - 21:25:05) |
Jun 10 1768 British customs officials seize John Hancock's ship, 'The Liberty', on the suspicion that Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties a month earlier |
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Jun 09 1891 French painter Paul Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti |
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Jun 08 1787 'Tarare' an opera by Antonio Salieri premieres at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris |
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| 2018-06-07 - 2018-06-08 |
Jun 07 1941 Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a me |
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| 2018-06-07 (01:24:37 - 23:24:43) |
Jun 07 1941 Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead |
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Jun 06 1925 Walter Chrysler founds automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation |
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| 2018-06-05 - 2018-06-06 |
Jun 05 1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| 2018-06-04 - 2018-06-05 |
Jun 04 1943 Argentina taken over by General Rawson + Colonel Juan Perón |
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| 2018-06-01 - 2018-06-02 |
Jun 01 1930 35th Women's French Championships: Helen Wills Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-2, 6-1) |
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| 2018-05-31 - 2018-06-01 |
May 31 1621 Sir Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London for 1 night |
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| 2018-05-30 - 2018-05-31 |
May 30 1539 Spanish explorer More >> |
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| 2018-05-28 - 2018-05-29 |
May 28 1928 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corporation merge |
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| 2018-05-26 - 2018-05-27 |
May 26 1538 Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years. |
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| 2018-05-25 - 2018-05-26 |
May 25 1842 Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague |
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| 2018-05-24 - 2018-05-25 |
May 24 1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) |
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| 2018-05-24 (01:23:29 - 16:23:38) |
May 24 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and NY Governor Cleveland |
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| 2018-05-21 - 2018-05-23 |
May 21 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
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| 2018-05-20 - 2018-05-21 |
May 20 1960 13th Cannes Film Festival: 'The Sweet Life' directed by Federico Fellini wins the Palme d'Or |
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| 2018-05-17 - 2018-05-18 |
May 17 1871 Native American fighter General William T. Sherman escapes from the Comanches in an ambulance |
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| 2018-05-16 - 2018-05-17 |
May 16 1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress |
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| 2018-05-15 - 2018-05-16 |
May 15 1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden for Billy Graham launching his crusade |
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| 2018-05-09 - 2018-05-15 |
May 09 1914 US President Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother's Day |
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| 2018-05-08 - 2018-05-09 |
May 08 1899 Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles) |
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| 2018-05-07 - 2018-05-08 |
May 07 1959 'Roy Campanella Night' Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition |
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| 2018-05-06 - 2018-05-07 |
May 06 1541 King Henry VIII orders a bible in English be placed in every church in England |
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| 2018-05-05 - 2018-05-06 |
May 05 1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock ExchangeMore >> |
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| 2018-05-04 - 2018-05-05 |
May 04 1862 Yorktown, VA - Mcclellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains |
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| 2018-05-03 (01:26:35 - 05:26:37) |
May 03 1915 John McCrae writes the poem 'In Flanders Fields' |
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| 2018-05-02 - 2018-05-03 |
May 02 1497 John Cabot's expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across the Atlantic |
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| 2018-04-28 - 2018-05-02 |
Apr 28 1796 Cease fire of Cherasco between Sardinia and Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| 2018-04-26 - 2018-04-27 |
Apr 26 1848 Alfred Russel Wallace departs the U.K. for South America, beginning four years of travel, collecting, and research in the region |
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| 2018-04-19 - 2018-04-25 |
Apr 19 1591 Chartres surrenders to King Henry IV in France |
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| 2018-04-15 - 2018-04-19 |
Apr 15 1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Abraham Lincoln (US Civil War) |
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| 2018-04-14 - 2018-04-15 |
Apr 14 43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed. |
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| 2018-04-14 (01:24:11 - 23:24:19) |
Apr 14 43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, |
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| 2018-04-12 - 2018-04-13 |
Apr 12 1990 James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months |
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| 2018-04-11 - 2018-04-12 |
Apr 11 1865 Abraham Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction |
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| 2018-04-09 - 2018-04-10 |
Apr 09 1957 Howard Hanson's 'Song of Democracy' premieres in Washington, D.C. |
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| 2018-04-08 - 2018-04-09 |
Apr 08 217 Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. |
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| 2018-04-07 - 2018-04-08 |
Apr 07 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach's 'St John Passion' premieres in Leipzig |
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| 2018-04-06 - 2018-04-07 |
Apr 06 1830 Joseph Smith + 5 others organize Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY |
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| 2018-04-06 (01:23:31 - 15:23:37) |
Apr 06 402 Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten |
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| 2018-04-05 - 2018-04-06 |
Apr 05 1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat |
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| 2018-04-05 (03:23:25 - 23:23:31) |
Apr 05 1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomo |
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| 2018-04-04 - 2018-04-05 |
Apr 04 1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie |
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| 2018-04-03 - 2018-04-04 |
Apr 03 1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Argentine President Juan + Eva Perón in Buenos Aires |
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| 2018-04-03 (01:23:05 - 21:23:08) |
Apr 03 1848 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River in Australia |
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| 2018-04-03 (02:23:12 - 18:23:16) |
Apr 03 1848 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach th |
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| 2018-04-02 - 2018-04-03 |
Apr 02 1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon |
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| 2018-04-01 - 2018-04-02 |
Apr 01 1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC |
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| 2018-03-31 - 2018-04-01 |
Mar 31 1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus, Philippines |
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| 2018-03-30 - 2018-03-31 |
Mar 30 1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race |
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| 2018-03-30 (01:22:37 - 15:22:41) |
Mar 30 1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath |
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| 2018-03-29 - 2018-03-30 |
Mar 29 1959 'Some Like It Hot', directed by Jack Lemmon, is released |
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| 2018-03-28 - 2018-03-29 |
Mar 28 1977 49th Academy Awards: 'Rocky', Faye Dunaway win |
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| 2018-03-26 - 2018-03-27 |
Mar 26 1979 Israeli Prime Minister Anwar Sadat sign the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C. |
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| 2018-03-25 - 2018-03-26 |
Mar 25 1581 Portuguese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal |
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| 2018-03-24 - 2018-03-25 |
Mar 24 1992 'Jake's Women' opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances |
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| 2018-03-23 - 2018-03-24 |
Mar 23 1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers |
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| 2018-03-23 (01:21:51 - 13:21:55) |
Mar 23 1931 Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is ref |
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| 2018-03-23 (04:21:58 - 12:22:01) |
Mar 23 1931 Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. |
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| 2018-03-22 - 2018-03-23 |
Mar 22 1778 Captain James Cook sights Cape Flattery, now in Washington state |
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| 2018-03-22 (02:21:45 - 10:21:47) |
Mar 22 1903 US Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, a |
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| 2018-03-22 (01:21:50 - 01:21:50) |
Mar 22 1903 US Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop' |
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| 2018-03-20 - 2018-03-21 |
Mar 20 1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule |
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| 2018-03-18 - 2018-03-20 |
Mar 18 1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia |
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| 2018-03-16 - 2018-03-17 |
Mar 16 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston |
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| 2018-03-15 - 2018-03-16 |
Mar 15 1923 fatal: early EOF |
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| 2018-03-14 - 2018-03-15 |
Mar 14 1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes |
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| 2018-03-09 - 2018-03-14 |
Mar 09 1776 Publication of influential economics book 'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith |
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| 2018-03-06 - 2018-03-08 |
Mar 06 1831 Edgar Allan Poe removed from West Point military academy |
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| 2018-03-05 - 2018-03-06 |
Mar 05 1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British |
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| 2018-03-05 (02:20:05 - 22:20:11) |
Mar 05 1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Cr |
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| 2018-03-04 - 2018-03-05 |
Mar 04 51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). |
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| 2018-03-03 - 2018-03-04 |
Mar 03 1875 Georges Bizet's opera 'Carmen' premieres (Paris) |
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| 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02 |
Mar 01 1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity |
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| 2018-02-28 - 2018-03-01 |
Feb 28 1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church |
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| 2018-02-28 (01:19:35 - 14:19:30) |
Feb 28 1728 George Frideric Handel's opera 'Siroe, re di Persia' premieres in London |
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| 2018-02-27 - 2018-02-28 |
Feb 27 1922 US Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference |
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| 2018-02-27 (01:19:19 - 20:19:33) |
Feb 27 1814 Ludwig von Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F premieres |
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| 2018-02-26 - 2018-02-27 |
Feb 26 1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract |
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| 2018-02-24 - 2018-02-26 |
Feb 24 1525 Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops beat the French. French King Francois I captured, 15,000 killed or wounded |
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| 2018-02-23 - 2018-02-24 |
Feb 23 1782 Engineer James Watt's patent for a rotary motion for the steam engine (his sun-and-planet gear) is granted |
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| 2018-02-22 - 2018-02-23 |
Feb 22 1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco regime in Spain |
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| 2018-02-22 (01:18:44 - 11:18:47) |
Feb 22 1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. |
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| 2018-02-21 - 2018-02-22 |
Feb 21 1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury |
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| 2018-02-20 - 2018-02-21 |
Feb 20 1938 UK Foreign Secretary Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany |
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| 2018-02-19 - 2018-02-20 |
Feb 19 1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize |
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| 2018-02-18 - 2018-02-19 |
Feb 18 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison |
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| 2018-02-18 (01:18:25 - 11:18:29) |
Feb 18 1968 Pink Floyd |
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| 2018-02-17 - 2018-02-18 |
Feb 17 1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released. |
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| 2018-02-16 - 2018-02-17 |
Feb 16 1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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| 2018-02-15 - 2018-02-16 |
Feb 15 1927 Silent film 'It' is released in the US starring Clara Bow |
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| 2018-02-14 - 2018-02-15 |
Feb 14 1743 Henry Pelham becomes Britain's First Lord of Treasury |
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| 2018-02-13 - 2018-02-14 |
Feb 13 1942 Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled |
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| 2018-02-12 - 2018-02-13 |
Feb 12 1935 First secret demonstration of radio signals detecting aircraft by Robert Watson-Watt at Daventry, England |
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| 2018-02-11 - 2018-02-12 |
Feb 11 1768 Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes |
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| 2018-02-10 - 2018-02-11 |
Feb 10 1934 Howard Hanson's 'Merry Mount' premieres in NYC |
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| 2018-02-09 - 2018-02-10 |
Feb 09 1746 The George II backs down. |
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| 2018-02-09 (01:17:20 - 22:17:20) |
Feb 09 1742 Sir Robert Walpole, often referred to as the first British Prime Minister, enobled as 1st Earl of Orford |
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| 2018-02-08 - 2018-02-09 |
Feb 08 1622 King James I disbands the English parliament |
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| 2018-02-07 - 2018-02-08 |
Feb 07 1924 Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR |
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| 2018-02-06 - 2018-02-07 |
Feb 06 1840 The Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of the British crown in Waitangi, New Zealand. T |
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| 2018-02-06 (05:16:59 - 22:17:08) |
Feb 06 1840 The Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of the British crown in Waitangi, New Zealand. The treaty was designed to share sovereignty between the two groups. |
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| 2018-02-05 - 2018-02-06 |
Feb 05 1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England |
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| 2018-02-04 - 2018-02-05 |
Feb 04 1865 Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces |
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| 2018-02-03 - 2018-02-04 |
Feb 03 1488 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros) |
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| 2018-01-31 - 2018-02-02 |
Jan 31 1901 Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' opens at Moscow Art Theater |
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| 2018-01-30 - 2018-01-31 |
Jan 30 1956 Elvis Presley records his version of 'Blue Suede Shoes' |
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| 2018-01-29 - 2018-01-30 |
Jan 29 1850 Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate |
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| 2018-01-28 - 2018-01-29 |
Jan 28 1077 German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman Emperor Pope Gregory VII after his penitent Walk to Canossa. |
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| 2018-01-27 - 2018-01-28 |
POGO HËIL, KAMERNOSSEN! |
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| 2018-01-24 - 2018-01-26 |
Jan 24 41 Caligula as Roman Emperor after the later's assassination by officers of the Praetorian Guard |
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| 2018-01-22 - 2018-01-23 |
Jan 22 1963 Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer |
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| 2018-01-21 - 2018-01-22 |
Jan 21 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War) |
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| 2018-01-20 - 2018-01-21 |
Jan 20 1807 Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris |
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| 2018-01-19 - 2018-01-20 |
Jan 19 1997 54th Golden Globes: The English Patient, Geoffrey Rush, + Brenda Blethyn win |
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| 2018-01-18 (01:25:07 - 01:25:07) |
Jan 18 532 Nika uprising against Emperor Justinian in Constantinople fails, 30,000 killed by troops loyal to the Emperor in the Hippodrome |
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| 2018-01-17 - 2018-01-18 |
Jan 17 1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S) |
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| 2018-01-16 - 2018-01-17 |
Jan 16 1556 Holy Roman Emperor Philip II, King of Spain |
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| 2018-01-14 - 2018-01-15 |
Jan 14 1526 Charles V and Francis I sign the Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy and Flanders |
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| 2018-01-13 - 2018-01-14 |
Jan 13 1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland |
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| 2018-01-12 - 2018-01-13 |
Jan 12 1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney,Australia |
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| 2018-01-11 - 2018-01-12 |
Jan 11 1953 J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club |
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| 2018-01-08 - 2018-01-11 |
Jan 08 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares 'War on Poverty' |
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| 2018-01-07 - 2018-01-08 |
Jan 07 1948 US president Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan |
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| 2018-01-06 - 2018-01-07 |
Jan 06 1893 The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. |
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| 2018-01-05 - 2018-01-06 |
Celebrate Mungday |
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| 2018-01-05 (01:23:57 - 13:23:59) |
Jan 05 1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot |
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| 2018-01-04 - 2018-01-05 |
Jan 04 1725 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724] |
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| 2018-01-03 - 2018-01-04 |
Jan 03 1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator |
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| 2018-01-02 - 2018-01-03 |
Jan 02 1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins |
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| 2018-01-01 - 2018-01-02 |
Jan 01 1610 German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610 |
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| 2018-01-01 (01:23:39 - 15:23:41) |
Jan 01 1932 Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws |
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| 2018-01-01 (00:23:46 - 00:23:46) |
Frohes Neues! |
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| 2017-12-31 (01:23:42 - 23:23:45) |
Dec 31 1988 'The Fog Bowl', a heavy, dense fog rolls over Soldier Field in Chicago during second quarter of the Bears vs Eagles NFC Divisional Playoff Game, cuts visibility to 15-20 yards (Bears win 20-12) |
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| 2017-12-31 (02:23:34 - 22:23:39) |
Dec 31 1988 'The Fog Bowl', a heavy, dense fog rolls over Soldier Field in Chicago during second quarter of the Bears vs Eagles NFC Divisional Playoff Game, cut |
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| 2017-12-29 - 2017-12-30 |
Dec 29 1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; subsequently martryed |
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| 2017-12-28 - 2017-12-29 |
Dec 28 1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad |
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| 2017-12-28 (01:23:21 - 17:23:23) |
Dec 28 1944 Eisenhower + Montgomery meet in Hasselt, Belgium |
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| 2017-12-27 - 2017-12-28 |
Dec 27 1831 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board, departs England for a survey of South America |
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| 2017-12-26 - 2017-12-27 |
Dec 26 1776 George Washington defeats Hessians at Battle of Trenton in American Revolutionary War |
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| 2017-12-25 - 2017-12-26 |
Dec 25 1741 Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale |
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| 2017-12-24 - 2017-12-25 |
Dec 24-26 Happy Birthday Fat Jesus! |
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| 2017-12-24 (14:23:11 - 14:23:11) |
Dec 24 1943 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces |
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| 2017-12-24 (01:23:08 - 13:23:03) |
Dec 24 1799 Jacobin plot against Napoleon uncovered |
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| 2017-12-23 - 2017-12-24 |
Dec 23 1815 'Emma' By Jane Austen by published by John Murray in London |
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| 2017-12-22 (01:23:04 - 18:23:06) |
Dec 22 1990 Lech Wałęsa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
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| 2017-12-21 - 2017-12-22 |
Dec 21 1784 John Jay becomes 1st US Secretary of State (foreign affairs) |
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| 2017-12-20 - 2017-12-21 |
Dec 20 1699 Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1 |
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| 2017-12-19 - 2017-12-20 |
Dec 19 1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
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| 2017-12-18 - 2017-12-19 |
Dec 18 1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire 'Yuan' (元 yuán), marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China |
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| 2017-12-18 (01:22:41 - 09:22:42) |
Dec 18 1892 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet 'Nutcracker Suite' premieres |
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| 2017-12-17 - 2017-12-18 |
Dec 17 1865 Franz Schubert's 'Unfinished Symphony' premieres |
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| 2017-12-15 - 2017-12-17 |
Dec 15 1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
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| 2017-12-14 - 2017-12-15 |
Dec 14 1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC |
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| 2017-12-13 - 2017-12-14 |
Dec 13 1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann |
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| 2017-12-12 - 2017-12-13 |
Dec 12 1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution |
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| 2017-12-12 (01:22:20 - 16:22:26) |
Dec 12 1988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
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| 2017-12-11 - 2017-12-12 |
Dec 11 1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
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| 2017-12-10 - 2017-12-11 |
Dec 10 1920 August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle |
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| 2017-12-09 - 2017-12-10 |
Dec 09 1975 US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan authorization for NYC |
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| 2017-12-08 - 2017-12-09 |
Dec 08 1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
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| 2017-12-07 - 2017-12-08 |
Dec 07 1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president |
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| 2017-12-07 (01:22:01 - 14:22:03) |
Dec 07 1868 Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1 |
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| 2017-12-06 - 2017-12-07 |
Dec 06 2013 Pope Francis gives his ascent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors |
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| 2017-12-05 (01:21:54 - 11:21:50) |
Dec 05 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti) |
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| 2017-12-04 - 2017-12-05 |
Dec 04 1915 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas' |
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| 2017-12-02 - 2017-12-04 |
Dec 02 1907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 2017-12-01 - 2017-12-02 |
Dec 01 1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's 'Bathers at Asnières' |
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| 2017-11-30 - 2017-12-01 |
Nov 30 1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 |
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| 2017-11-29 - 2017-11-30 |
Nov 29 1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time |
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| 2017-11-28 - 2017-11-29 |
Nov 28 1934 Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power |
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| 2017-11-28 (01:21:27 - 10:21:29) |
Nov 28 1932 Groucho Marx performs on radio for the first time |
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| 2017-11-27 - 2017-11-28 |
Nov 27 1868 Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General George A. Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack |
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| 2017-11-26 - 2017-11-27 |
Nov 26 43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Mark Antony formed |
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| 2017-11-26 (01:21:14 - 13:21:15) |
Nov 26 1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) |
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| 2017-11-25 - 2017-11-26 |
Nov 25 2017 Social Democrats prepare for grand coalition with Merkel |
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| 2017-11-25 (01:21:10 - 07:21:12) |
Nov 25 1165 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) visits Utrecht |
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| 2017-11-24 - 2017-11-25 |
Nov 24 1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) |
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| 2017-11-23 - 2017-11-24 |
Nov 23 1937 John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice + Men' premieres in NYC |
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| 2017-11-24 (02:21:11 - 10:21:14) |
Nov 24 2005 Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Parliament Stephen Harper, introduces a motion of no confidence. The motion is passed on November 28 leading to the dissolution of the 38th Canadian Parliament. |
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| 2017-11-23 (01:21:09 - 13:21:05) |
Nov 23 1963 JFK) |
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| 2017-11-22 - 2017-11-23 |
Nov 22 1922 British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader |
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| 2017-11-20 - 2017-11-21 |
Nov 20 1975 Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President |
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| 2017-11-19 - 2017-11-20 |
Nov 19 1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; 'Four score + seven years ago...' |
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| 2017-11-18 - 2017-11-19 |
Nov 18 1994 'Star Trek: Generations' film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres |
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| 2017-11-17 - 2017-11-18 |
Nov 17 1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe |
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| 2017-11-16 - 2017-11-17 |
Nov 16 13 General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany |
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| 2017-11-15 - 2017-11-16 |
Nov 15 1939 FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
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| 2017-11-14 - 2017-11-15 |
Nov 14 1863 Nathan Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee |
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| 2017-11-13 - 2017-11-14 |
Nov 13 1524 Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia |
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| 2017-11-13 (18:20:33 - 21:20:26) |
Nov 13 1973 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously |
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| 2017-11-13 (01:20:23 - 17:20:32) |
Nov 13 1565 King Philip II's 'Letters out Segovia' reaches Brussels |
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| 2017-11-10 - 2017-11-11 |
Nov 10 1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives. |
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| 2017-11-09 - 2017-11-10 |
Nov 09 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul |
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| 2017-11-09 (18:20:04 - 20:20:03) |
Nov 09 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler flees |
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| 2017-11-09 (17:20:03 - 17:20:03) |
Nov 09 1541 Queen Catherine Howard (Henry VIII's fifth wife) confined in Tower of London |
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| 2017-11-09 (11:20:06 - 12:20:08) |
Nov 09 1854 Franz Liszt's 'Fest-Long' premieres |
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| 2017-11-09 (09:19:59 - 10:20:00) |
Nov 09 1921 Partito Nazionalista Fascista formed in Italy by Mussolini |
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| 2017-11-09 (01:20:02 - 08:20:06) |
Nov 09 1673 English King Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury</div> |
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| 2017-11-08 - 2017-11-09 |
Nov 08 1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges</div> |
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| 2017-11-07 - 2017-11-08 |
Nov 07 1917 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government. |
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| 2017-11-07 (06:43:51 - 10:43:53) |
Nov 07 2017 Twenty-six dead in Texas church massacre: A society ravaged by pathological violence |
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| 2017-11-05 - 2017-11-07 |
Nov 05 2017 Carles Puigdemont turns himself in to Belgian police |
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| 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-05 |
Nov 02 1642 Second Battle of Breitenfeld, aka First Battle of Leipzig; victory for the Swedish army under Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson over Holy Roman Empir |
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| 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-05 |
Nov 02 1642 Second Battle of Breitenfeld, aka First Battle of Leipzig; victory for the Swedish army under Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson over Holy Roman Empire army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria |
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| 2017-11-01 - 2017-11-02 |
Nov 01 1248 Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor |
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| 2017-10-31 - 2017-11-01 |
Oct 31 445 BC Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse). |
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| 2017-10-31 (01:31:36 - 17:31:41) |
Oct 31 802 Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out |
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| 2017-10-30 - 2017-10-31 |
Oct 30 942 Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III) |
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| 2017-10-30 (01:31:31 - 04:31:37) |
Oct 30 1489 Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I + Flemings |
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| 2017-10-29 - 2017-10-30 |
Oct 29 539 BC King Cyrus 'the Great' of Persia marches into Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home |
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| 2017-10-28 - 2017-10-29 |
Oct 28 1061 Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus + Pope Honorius II |
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| 2017-10-27 - 2017-10-28 |
Oct 27 625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-10-26 - 2017-10-27 |
Oct 26 1492 Lead (graphite) pencils first used |
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| 2017-10-25 - 2017-10-26 |
Oct 25 1666 Brandenburg, Brunswick, Denmark and The Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance |
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| 2017-10-24 - 2017-10-25 |
Oct 24 1260 Qutuz, Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60), is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself |
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| 2017-10-23 - 2017-10-24 |
Oct 23 425 Valentinian III is elevated to Roman Emperor, at the age of 6 |
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| 2017-10-22 - 2017-10-23 |
Oct 22 1867 Foundation of the National University of Colombia. |
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| 2017-10-21 - 2017-10-22 |
Oct 21 1591 Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau |
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| 2017-10-19 - 2017-10-21 |
Oct 19 1634 Beach Island in North Sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood |
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| 2017-10-19 (01:30:27 - 10:30:30) |
Oct 19 1466 The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany |
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| 2017-10-16 - 2017-10-19 |
Oct 16 456 Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire. |
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| 2017-10-15 - 2017-10-16 |
Oct 15 1783 Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes 1st tethered balloon ascent |
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| 2017-10-14 - 2017-10-15 |
Oct 14 1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth |
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| 2017-10-13 - 2017-10-14 |
Oct 13 1660 Absolute monarchy instituted by decree in Denmark by King Frederik III |
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| 2017-10-12 - 2017-10-13 |
Oct 12 1654 The Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 |
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| 2017-10-11 - 2017-10-12 |
Oct 11 2017 Catalan premier affirms right to independence from Spain, but delays frmal declaration. |
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| 2017-10-11 (01:29:26 - 04:29:27) |
Oct 11 1698 France, England + Netherlands ratified the First Partition Treaty, which eventually led to the War of the Spanish Succession |
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| 2017-10-10 - 2017-10-11 |
Oct 10 2017 Spain's Popular Party threatens repression as Catalan authorities declare independence |
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| 2017-10-10 (01:29:32 - 05:29:24) |
Oct 10 1799 Convention of Alkmaar: British-Russian invasion army departs Holland |
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| 2017-10-09 - 2017-10-10 |
Oct 09 1597 Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort |
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| 2017-10-08 - 2017-10-09 |
Oct 08 1600 San Marino adopts constitution |
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| 2017-10-07 - 2017-10-08 |
Oct 07 3761 BC The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar). |
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| 2017-10-06 - 2017-10-07 |
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| 2017-10-06 (01:28:54 - 17:28:59) |
Oct 06 891 Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-10-03 - 2017-10-06 |
100 Jahre Oktober Revolution |
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| 2017-10-03 (01:20:00 - 09:20:03) |
Oct 03 1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen |
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| 2017-10-02 - 2017-10-03 |
Happy Orange, the 56th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3183 |
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| 2017-10-02 (01:19:53 - 20:19:59) |
Oct 02 1540 Venice and Turkey signs peace |
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| 2017-10-01 - 2017-10-02 |
Oct 01 1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses |
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| 2017-09-30 - 2017-10-01 |
Sep 30 1399 King Richard II of England abdicates |
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| 2017-09-29 - 2017-09-30 |
Sep 29 480 BC Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I |
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| 2017-09-28 - 2017-09-29 |
Sep 28 1850 US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment |
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| 2017-09-27 - 2017-09-28 |
Sep 27 489 Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again. |
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| 2017-09-26 - 2017-09-27 |
Sep 26 1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware |
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| 2017-09-25 - 2017-09-26 |
Sep 25 1340 England + France sign disarmament treaty |
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| 2017-09-24 - 2017-09-25 |
Sep 24 366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-09-22 - 2017-09-24 |
Sep 22 530 St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends |
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| 2017-09-21 - 2017-09-22 |
Sep 21 1217 The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. |
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| 2017-09-20 - 2017-09-21 |
Sep 20 1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise |
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| 2017-09-20 (01:18:20 - 11:18:23) |
Sep 20 622 Islamic Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina) |
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| 2017-09-19 - 2017-09-20 |
Sep 19 1356 English forces under The Black Prince defeat French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King during the Hundred Years War |
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| 2017-09-18 - 2017-09-19 |
Sep 18 1454 In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War. |
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| 2017-09-17 - 2017-09-18 |
Sep 17 1176 At the Battle of Myriokephalon the Byzantines fail to recover Anatolia from Turkish rule. |
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| 2017-09-16 - 2017-09-17 |
Sep 16 1652 Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk |
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| 2017-09-15 - 2017-09-16 |
Sep 15 1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, New York, kills 30 |
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| 2017-09-15 (01:17:46 - 22:17:56) |
Sep 15 668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. |
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| 2017-09-14 - 2017-09-15 |
Sep 14 1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) |
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| 2017-09-13 - 2017-09-14 |
Sep 13 533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa. |
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| 2017-09-13 (01:17:35 - 18:17:34) |
Sep 13 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III |
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| 2017-09-12 - 2017-09-13 |
Sep 12 1556 Emperor Charles abdicates in favour of his brother Ferdinand I |
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| 2017-09-11 - 2017-09-12 |
Sep 11 1697 Battle of Zenta: forces of Prince Eugen of Savoye defeat the Turks, ending Ottoman control of large parts of Central Europe |
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| 2017-09-11 (02:17:22 - 20:17:27) |
Sep 11 1185 Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. |
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| 2017-09-11 (01:17:16 - 19:17:22) |
Sep 11 1185 Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and |
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| 2017-09-10 - 2017-09-11 |
Sep 10 1785 Prussia signs trade agreement with US |
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| 2017-09-09 - 2017-09-10 |
Sep 09 1830 Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ |
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| 2017-09-08 - 2017-09-09 |
Sep 08 1536 Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne |
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| 2017-09-08 (10:36:57 - 10:36:57) |
Sep 08 1689 China + Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul) |
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| 2017-09-08 (01:36:54 - 09:36:56) |
Sep 08 1514 Battle of Orsha: Polish/Lithuania army defeat the Russian army |
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| 2017-09-07 - 2017-09-08 |
Sep 07 1914 NY Post Office Building opens to public |
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| 2017-09-06 (02:36:41 - 23:37:02) |
Sep 06 394 Battle of Frigidus in Northern Italy: forces of Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeat those of Western Emperor Eugenius |
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| 2017-09-05 - 2017-09-06 |
Sep 05 1519 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernán Cortés vs Tlascala Aztecs |
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| 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-05 |
Sep 04 1024 Conrad II (the Elder) chosen as King of Germany |
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| 2017-09-03 - 2017-09-04 |
Sep 03 1731 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland |
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| 2017-09-02 - 2017-09-03 |
Sep 02 1856 Tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China. |
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| 2017-09-01 (01:40:49 - 23:40:55) |
Sep 01 1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem |
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| 2017-08-31 (01:40:39 - 23:40:54) |
Aug 31 1904 24th U.S. Men's National Championship: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (10-8, 6-4, 9-7) |
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| 2017-08-30 - 2017-08-31 |
Aug 30 1776 Continental Army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC |
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| 2017-08-29 - 2017-08-30 |
Aug 29 1475 Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts |
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| 2017-08-28 - 2017-08-29 |
Aug 28 476 German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia |
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| 2017-08-26 - 2017-08-28 |
Aug 26 1745 Britan, Prussia + Hannover sign treaty |
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| 2017-08-25 - 2017-08-26 |
Aug 25 1499 Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians |
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| 2017-08-24 - 2017-08-25 |
Aug 24 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire |
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| 2017-08-23 - 2017-08-24 |
Aug 23 1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese |
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| 2017-08-22 - 2017-08-23 |
Aug 22 1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase + plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt |
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| 2017-08-21 - 2017-08-22 |
Aug 21 1915 Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One |
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| 2017-08-21 (01:39:28 - 09:39:31) |
Aug 21 1598 -22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence |
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| 2017-08-19 - 2017-08-21 |
Aug 19 440 St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-08-18 - 2017-08-19 |
Aug 18 1674 Jean Racine's 'Iphigénie' premieres in Versailles |
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| 2017-08-17 - 2017-08-18 |
Aug 17 1863 Federal batteries + ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC |
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| 2017-08-16 - 2017-08-17 |
Aug 16 1384 Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears case of couple who tore money bills while fighting over them (equal to act of destroying stamped g |
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| 2017-08-16 (03:38:51 - 21:38:55) |
Aug 16 1384 Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears case of couple who tore money bills while fighting over them (equal to act of destroying stamped government documents - law necessitated 100 floggings). Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them. |
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| 2017-08-15 - 2017-08-16 |
Aug 15 1635 1st recorded north American hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony |
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| 2017-08-14 - 2017-08-15 |
Aug 14 1385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence |
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| 2017-08-13 - 2017-08-14 |
Aug 13 1099 Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II |
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| 2017-08-12 - 2017-08-13 |
Celebrate Zaraday |
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| 2017-08-11 - 2017-08-12 |
Aug 11 480 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought off north coast of Euboea. |
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| 2017-08-10 - 2017-08-11 |
Aug 10 612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. |
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| 2017-08-09 - 2017-08-10 |
Aug 09 1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete. |
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| 2017-08-08 - 2017-08-09 |
Aug 08 1786 Jacques Balmat + Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc |
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| 2017-08-08 (01:37:49 - 05:37:51) |
Aug 08 1567 Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels, Belgium |
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| 2017-08-07 - 2017-08-08 |
Aug 07 1750 Slave uprising on Curacao |
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| 2017-08-07 (01:37:36 - 11:37:44) |
Aug 07 1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii |
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| 2017-08-06 - 2017-08-07 |
Aug 06 1861 US Congress passes First Confiscation Act |
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| 2017-08-05 - 2017-08-06 |
Aug 05 135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome |
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| 2017-08-04 - 2017-08-05 |
Aug 04 1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne |
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| 2017-08-03 - 2017-08-04 |
Aug 03 1640 Zorilla's 'Bire el Ojo' premieres in Toledo |
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| 2017-08-02 - 2017-08-03 |
Aug 02 338 BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean |
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| 2017-08-02 (01:06:32 - 22:06:40) |
Aug 02 338 BC Macedonian army led by Philip II defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece a |
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| 2017-08-01 - 2017-08-02 |
Aug 01 1086 Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable) |
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| 2017-08-01 (18:06:31 - 23:06:30) |
Aug 01 1086 Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically con |
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| 2017-07-31 - 2017-08-01 |
Jul 31 1658 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor |
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| 2017-07-30 - 2017-07-31 |
Jul 30 1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body |
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| 2017-07-29 - 2017-07-30 |
Jul 29 626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople |
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| 2017-07-28 - 2017-07-29 |
Jul 28 1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid |
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| 2017-07-27 - 2017-07-28 |
Jul 27 432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-07-26 - 2017-07-27 |
Jul 26 1663 French troops invade papal territory Comtat Venaissin |
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| 2017-07-25 - 2017-07-26 |
Jul 25 1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King |
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| 2017-07-24 - 2017-07-25 |
Jul 24 1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur |
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| 2017-07-23 - 2017-07-24 |
Jul 23 636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire |
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| 2017-07-23 (01:05:16 - 10:05:15) |
Jul 23 685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-07-22 - 2017-07-23 |
Jul 22 1489 Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France |
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| 2017-07-22 (01:05:02 - 17:05:09) |
Jul 22 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada. |
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| 2017-07-21 - 2017-07-22 |
Jul 21 866 John appointed bishop of the kingdom |
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| 2017-07-20 - 2017-07-21 |
Jul 20 1893 17th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2) |
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| 2017-07-19 - 2017-07-20 |
Jul 19 1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia |
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| 2017-07-18 - 2017-07-19 |
Jul 18 1630 Spanish troops occupy Mantua |
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| 2017-07-17 - 2017-07-18 |
Jul 17 1712 England, Portugal + France sign ceasefire [or 19th] |
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| 2017-07-16 - 2017-07-17 |
Jul 16 1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend) |
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| 2017-07-15 - 2017-07-16 |
Jul 15 1410 Battle of Grunwald (2nd Battle of Tannenburg), one of Medieval Europe's largest battles during Poland-Lithuanian Teutonic War. Polish King Władysław Jagiełło and Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas defeat Teutonic Ulrich von Jungingen |
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| 2017-07-15 (02:04:11 - 20:04:16) |
Jul 15 1410 Battle of Grunwald (2nd Battle of Tannenburg), one of Medieval Europe's largest battles during Poland-Lithuanian Teutonic War. Polish King Władysł |
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| 2017-07-14 - 2017-07-15 |
Jul 14 1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia |
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| 2017-07-13 - 2017-07-14 |
Jul 13 1854 US forces shell + burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua |
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| 2017-07-13 (01:03:53 - 18:03:59) |
Jul 13 1573 Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army |
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| 2017-07-12 - 2017-07-13 |
Jul 12 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli |
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| 2017-07-11 - 2017-07-12 |
Jul 11 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army |
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| 2017-07-10 - 2017-07-11 |
Jul 10 1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA) |
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| 2017-07-09 - 2017-07-10 |
Jul 09 1517 Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen |
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| 2017-07-08 - 2017-07-09 |
Jul 08 1776 Col John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia |
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| 2017-07-07 - 2017-07-08 |
Jul 07 1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel |
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| 2017-07-06 - 2017-07-07 |
Jul 06 1609 Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion |
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| 2017-07-06 (01:03:06 - 09:03:04) |
Jul 06 1044 The Battle of Ménfő takes place. |
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| 2017-07-04 - 2017-07-06 |
Jul 04 1766 Trump: MURRICA IS GREAT |
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| 2017-07-04 (01:02:51 - 12:02:52) |
Jul 04 1415 Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII |
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| 2017-07-03 - 2017-07-04 |
Jul 03 1250 Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself. |
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| 2017-06-28 - 2017-07-03 |
Jun 28 767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-06-27 - 2017-06-28 |
Jun 27 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain |
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| 2017-06-27 (04:08:13 - 13:08:16) |
Jun 27 1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. |
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| 2017-06-27 (01:08:08 - 09:08:11) |
Jun 27 1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a Brit |
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| 2017-06-26 - 2017-06-27 |
Jun 26 1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens |
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| 2017-06-26 (01:08:09 - 12:08:09) |
Jun 26 684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-06-25 - 2017-06-26 |
Jun 25 524 Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians |
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| 2017-06-24 - 2017-06-25 |
Jun 24 451 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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| 2017-06-23 - 2017-06-24 |
Jun 23 930 World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi), established |
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| 2017-06-22 - 2017-06-23 |
Jun 22 1377 Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England |
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| 2017-06-21 - 2017-06-22 |
Jun 21 1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia + Sweden sign peace treaty |
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| 2017-06-20 - 2017-06-21 |
Jun 20 451 Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: Roman and Visigoths forces defeat Attila the Hun in north east France |
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| 2017-06-19 - 2017-06-20 |
Jun 19 1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim |
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| 2017-06-18 - 2017-06-19 |
Jun 18 1629 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn beat the Dunkirkers, commerce raiders in the service of the Spanish Monarchy |
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| 2017-06-17 - 2017-06-18 |
Jun 18 1178 Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation) |
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| 2017-06-17 (01:06:53 - 21:06:58) |
Jun 17 656 Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam |
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| 2017-06-16 - 2017-06-17 |
Jun 17 653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-06-16 (19:06:50 - 21:06:50) |
Jun 16 1624 Virginia becomes an English crown colony following the bankruptcy of the London Company |
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| 2017-06-15 - 2017-06-16 |
Jun 16 1338 German monarch declares pope + king's decree redundant |
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| 2017-06-15 (10:37:41 - 20:38:05) |
Jun 15 1826 Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II abolishes the elite Janissary corps executing thousands for treason to make way for a more modern army |
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| 2017-06-14 - 2017-06-15 |
Jun 15 763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history |
|
| 2017-06-14 (14:37:33 - 21:37:37) |
Jun 14 1276 While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation |
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| 2017-06-14 (15:37:28 - 19:37:30) |
Jun 14 1276 While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song. |
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| 2017-06-13 - 2017-06-14 |
Jun 14 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest extant) signed in London |
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| 2017-06-12 - 2017-06-13 |
Jun 13 1552 Land guardians of Netherlands attack Verdun |
|
| 2017-06-12 (07:37:11 - 22:37:20) |
Jun 12 1553 King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmer's '42 Articles' |
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| 2017-06-11 - 2017-06-12 |
Jun 12 1572 Spanish co-land guardian Duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock |
|
| 2017-06-10 - 2017-06-11 |
Jun 11 1610 Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia |
|
| 2017-06-09 - 2017-06-10 |
Jun 10 922 French republic chooses Robert I, King of France |
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| 2017-06-08 - 2017-06-09 |
Jun 09 979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France |
|
| 2017-06-08 (12:36:46 - 22:36:45) |
Jun 08 1786 Commercially made icecream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC) |
|
| 2017-06-08 (10:36:39 - 11:36:45) |
Jun 08 536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
|
| 2017-06-07 - 2017-06-08 |
Jun 08 1099 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem |
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| 2017-06-06 - 2017-06-07 |
Jun 07 1513 Battle of Novara, the War of the League of Cambrai: the Swiss Confederacy defeat the French |
|
| 2017-06-06 (15:36:28 - 22:36:31) |
Jun 06 1391 Inhabitants of Seville, Spain, massacres 5,000 Jews |
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| 2017-06-05 - 2017-06-06 |
Jun 06 1625 Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda |
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| 2017-06-04 - 2017-06-05 |
Jun 05 1784 Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist. |
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| 2017-06-03 - 2017-06-04 |
Jun 04 1098 After 5-month siege in First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (now in modernTurkey) |
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| 2017-06-02 - 2017-06-03 |
Jun 03 1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine) |
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| 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-02 |
Jun 02 4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only) |
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| 2017-05-31 - 2017-06-01 |
Jun 01 70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem |
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| 2017-05-30 - 2017-05-31 |
May 31 1635 The Peace of Prague signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony (representing Protestant states of the Holy Roman Empire). It effectively ended the civil war aspect of the Thirty Years' War |
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| 2017-05-31 (01:35:42 - 07:35:44) |
May 31 1635 The Peace of Prague signed between the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II and the Electorate of Saxony (representing Protestant states of the Holy Roman |
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| 2017-05-25 - 2017-05-30 |
May 26 1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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| 2017-05-23 - 2017-05-25 |
May 24 1706 Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed |
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| 2017-05-22 - 2017-05-23 |
May 23 1200 Treaty of Le Goulet signed between France and England |
|
| 2017-05-22 (10:34:47 - 22:34:45) |
May 22 1370 Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels, Belgium |
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| 2017-05-21 - 2017-05-22 |
May 22 685 Battle of Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians |
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| 2017-05-20 - 2017-05-21 |
May 21 1293 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcal� |
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| 2017-05-20 (20:40:34 - 22:40:34) |
May 20 1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. |
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| 2017-05-20 (21:40:26 - 21:40:26) |
May 20 1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pemb |
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| 2017-05-19 - 2017-05-20 |
May 20 1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles |
|
| 2017-05-18 - 2017-05-19 |
May 19 1631 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right |
|
| 2017-05-18 (07:40:21 - 22:40:19) |
May 18 1880 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37.5 |
|
| 2017-05-17 - 2017-05-18 |
May 18 352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I |
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| 2017-05-17 (17:40:27 - 22:40:18) |
May 17 1527 P�nfilo de Narv�ez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men - by 1536 only 4 survive |
|
| 2017-05-16 - 2017-05-17 |
May 17 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England |
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| 2017-05-15 - 2017-05-16 |
May 16 884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 2017-05-15 (00:39:57 - 22:40:12) |
May 15 1509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venetians in Northern Italy |
|
| 2017-05-13 - 2017-05-14 |
May 14 1559 Exhumed corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel |
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| 2017-05-12 - 2017-05-13 |
May 13 919 Duke Henry of Saxony becomes King Henry I of Oostfrankischreich |
|
| 2017-05-11 - 2017-05-12 |
May 12 1752 1st US fire insurance policy issued in Philadelphia |
|
| 2017-05-10 - 2017-05-11 |
May 11 1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen mother Mary |
|
| 2017-05-09 - 2017-05-10 |
May 10 328 Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria. |
|
| 2017-05-09 (03:39:28 - 21:39:28) |
May 09 1945 Victory Day |
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| 2017-05-08 - 2017-05-09 |
May 09 1639 William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island |
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| 2017-05-08 (20:39:28 - 22:39:22) |
May 08 1945 VE Day |
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| 2017-05-07 - 2017-05-08 |
May 08 1660 Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni |
|
| 2017-05-06 - 2017-05-07 |
May 07 1604 Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina. |
|
| 2017-05-06 (04:39:12 - 22:39:19) |
May 06 1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle |
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| 2017-05-05 - 2017-05-06 |
May 04 1256 The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. |
|
| 2017-04-27 - 2017-04-28 |
Apr 28 1124 David I becomes King of Scots. |
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| 2017-04-26 - 2017-04-27 |
Apr 27 1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights |
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| 2017-04-25 - 2017-04-26 |
Apr 26 1684 Patent granted for thimble |
|
| 2017-04-25 (16:44:53 - 22:44:59) |
Apr 25 1861 The Union Army arrives to reinforce Washington, D.C. (US Civil War) |
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| 2017-04-24 - 2017-04-25 |
Apr 25 1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty). |
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| 2017-04-25 (00:44:54 - 13:44:58) |
Apr 25 1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty |
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| 2017-04-24 (10:44:44 - 22:44:49) |
Apr 24 1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date). |
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| 2017-04-24 (09:44:53 - 09:44:53) |
Apr 24 1823 Eugene Scribes opera 'Le Menteur Veridique' premieres in Paris |
|
| 2017-04-24 (08:44:51 - 08:44:51) |
Apr 24 1792 'La Marseillaise' composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
|
| 2017-04-23 - 2017-04-24 |
Apr 24 1775 Opera 'Il Ré Pastore' is produced (Salzburg) |
|
| 2017-04-22 - 2017-04-23 |
Apr 23 1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye |
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| 2017-04-22 (04:44:32 - 22:44:37) |
Apr 22 1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III |
|
| 2017-04-21 - 2017-04-22 |
Apr 22 1521 Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards |
|
| 2017-04-20 - 2017-04-21 |
Apr 21 1884 Pope Leo XIII encyclical 'On Freemasonry' |
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| 2017-04-19 - 2017-04-20 |
Apr 20 1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London. |
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| 2017-04-19 (22:44:22 - 22:44:22) |
Apr 19 1864 Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition) |
|
| 2015-06-04 (17:31:54 - 19:31:47) |
Jun 04 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned), 1783 |
|
| 2015-06-02 - 2015-06-03 |
Jun 02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967
Jun 03 Georges Bizet in Bougival bei Paris gestorben, 1875 |
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| 2015-06-02 (09:31:42 - 19:31:43) |
Jun 02 First issue of Computerworld, 1967 |
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| 2015-06-01 - 2015-06-02 |
June 1 Slavery abolished in all US possessions, 1862
Jun 01 Auflösung aller Parteien außer NSDAP, 1933 |
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| 2015-05-30 - 2015-05-31 |
May 30 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam, 1966 |
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| 2015-05-29 - 2015-05-30 |
May 29 Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden, 1944 |
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| 2015-05-27 - 2015-05-29 |
May 27 First joint meeting of U.S. and European ALGOL definition cte., 1958 |
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| 2015-05-22 - 2015-05-27 |
May 22 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0, 1990
Ethernet first described, 1973 |
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| 2015-05-21 - 2015-05-22 |
May 22 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0, 1990 |
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| 2015-05-21 (08:23:49 - 21:23:52) |
May 21 Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi SS captured, 1945 |
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| 2015-05-20 - 2015-05-21 |
May 20 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India - - first European to reach India by sea, 1498 |
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| 2015-05-11 - 2015-05-20 |
May 11 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, 1960 |
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| 2015-05-10 - 2015-05-11 |
May 10 French government arrest 10 utopists, 1796 |
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| 2015-05-08 - 2015-05-10 |
May 9 vodka vodka, 1945 |
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| 2015-05-08 (13:43:50 - 22:43:53) |
May 8 vodka vodka, 1945 |
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| 2015-05-07 - 2015-05-08 |
May 7 Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated, 1945 |
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| 2015-05-01 - 2015-05-05 |
May 1 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba, 1961 |
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| 2015-04-30 - 2015-05-01 |
gnu/linux, medizin, geschichte, politik und lifestyle // Hängt den Hexer! - Ich bin Informatiker! - Formatiert ihn!
Apr 30, 1945 Suizid Hitlers |
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| 2015-04-28 - 2015-04-30 |
gnu/linux, medizin, geschichte, politik und lifestyle // Hängt den Hexer! - Ich bin Informatiker! - Formatiert ihn! |
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| 2015-04-27 - 2015-04-28 |
gnu/linux, medizin, geschichte, politik und lifestyle // Apr 27 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad, 1881
Apr 27 Independence Day in Togo |
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| 2015-04-27 (10:57:38 - 12:57:42) |
gnu/linux, medizin, geschichte, politik und lifestyle // Apr 27 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad, 1881 |
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| 2015-04-25 - 2015-04-27 |
Apr 25 Liberation Day (Italy), 1945 |
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| 2015-04-21 - 2015-04-25 |
Apr 21 Zwangsvereinigung von KPD und SPD zur SED, 1946 |
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| 2015-04-07 - 2015-04-21 |
Apr 07 IBM announces System/360, 1964
Apr 07 Zweites Gesetz zur Gleichschaltung der Länder, 1933 |
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| 2015-03-31 - 2015-04-07 |
Apr 01 — Usenet site kremvax announced as an April Fool's joke, 1984 |
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| 2015-03-29 - 2015-03-31 |
Mär 29 Mar 29* Palmsonntag Carl Orff in München gestorben, 1982 |
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| 2015-03-29 (12:01:32 - 14:01:18) |
Mar 29* Palmsonntag |
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| 2015-03-19 - 2015-03-29 |
Mär 20*Frühlingsanfang |
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| 2015-03-19 (16:34:21 - 20:34:27) |
Celebrate Mojoday! |
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| 2015-03-18 - 2015-03-19 |
04.03. First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976
05.03. Reichstagswahl: Mehrheit für NSDAP+DNVP, 1933
Mär. 18: Erste demokratische Volkskammerwahl, 1990 |
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| 2015-03-05 - 2015-03-18 |
04.03. First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976
05.03. Reichstagswahl: Mehrheit für NSDAP+DNVP, 1933 |
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| 2015-03-04 - 2015-03-05 |
04.03. First Cray-1 shipped to Los Alamos, 1976 |
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| 2015-02-12 - 2015-02-24 |
Jan 30 Ernennung von Hitler zum Reichskanzler, 1933
Feb 02 Purification of the Virgin Mary | Feb 04 Ken Thompson, creator of unix, born, 1943 |
