On this day 79 years ago the prisoners of Auschwitz were liberated

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On this day 90 years ago The Prohibition ended

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On This Day 50 Years Ago: Only Time a Sitting US President Flew on a Commercial Flight

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On this day 250 years ago,more than 90 thousand pounds of tea was dumped into the sea.

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TDIH: November 22, 1963. 12:30 pm President John F. Kennedy was assasinated in Dealy Plaza, Dallas Texas.

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Feb. 3rd 1959 The day the music died

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2001, First Country to make Same-sex Marriage Legal

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On this day June 22 1941, Germany launched its invasion of the soviet Union. codename operation barbarossa

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On this day in 1937, Chicago police attacked a Memorial Day gathering of unarmed, striking steelworkers and their families, killing ten in the Memorial Day Massacre. Chicago PD banned local screening of video footage of the massacre.

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1989, The Tiananmen Square Massacre and student protests across China, between 2,700-10,000 people were killed.

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March 1, 1945 was the last charge in the history of the Polish cavalry

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March 9, 1974: Japanese Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrenders after 29 years in Lubang Island, the Philippines. Believing that World War II hasn’t ended, he held out on the island from December 1944 until March 1974.

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On this day in 44 BC, 2068 years ago, Julius Caesar was assassinated

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1931, Don Bradman scored his fourth Double Century

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On this day in 1960, 62 years ago, the world went from 3 to 4 nuclear powers, as France detonated gerboise bleue.

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On this day, Feb. 18, 2001, former FBI Special Agent Robert Hanssen was arrested and charged for allegedly handing over national security secrets to Russia and the former Soviet Union. He's considered to be the most damaging spy in Bureau history.

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On this day : In 1941 :- WWII - Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begin; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; over a million lives lost.

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TDIH: Februari 5, 1597. A group of early Japanese Christians, known as the 26 Martyrs, are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

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Pat Tillman was killed 18 years ago today in Afghanistan after leaving the NFL to join the US Army

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78 years ago today, General Patton took Trier. When he received a message instructing him to bypass the city because it would take four divisions to capture it, Patton replied, “Have taken Trier with two divisions. Do you want me to give it back?”

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1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Bodyguards

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On March 5, 1940 the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party decided to murder about 25 thousand Polish prisoners of war

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On this day in 1983, a record-breaking 106 million Americans tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H. Set during the Korean War, the series ran 11 years; the war itself spanned just three.

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44 BC, Assassination of Julius Caesar

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TDIH: May 6, 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.

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On This Day, December 13th, 1938: George Burns, Comedian of Radio, Admits Jewel Smuggling Charges (r/Minnesota_Archived)

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Russian Space Station Mir was deorbited on this day 23 Mar 2001.

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Joseph Stalin ( Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) died on March 5, 1953.

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The start of the Philippine-American war. On February 4, 1899 at about eight o'clock in the evening, Private William Walter Grayson fired and killed a Filipino soldier along the now Sociego Street in Santa Mesa, Manila. This triggered firing between both sides, which spread to Paco and Sta. Ana.

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On this day in 1859, the U.S. government executed John Brown for his failed raid on a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. For attempting to liberate enslaved people, Brown became the first American to be executed for treason.

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20 years ago today: 5 February 2003- Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at UN, outlining the United States' case that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and that had ties to al-Qaeda, making the argument for the invasion that would happen the following month.

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June 14, 2017, Grenfell Tower in west London bursts into fire, killing 72 and injuring over 70. Fire crews didn't have long enough ladders to reach the upper floors and the insulation on the tower was flammable.

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Today is the 10 year anniversary of the Roboski massacre. The Turkish airforce bombed and killed 34 Kurds, mostly youth and some children. Nobody was held accountable and Erdogan is still in charge.

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TDIH: September 19, 1957 - United States detonates a 1.7-kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site, a 1,375-square-mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas. The test was the first fully contained underground detonation and produced no radioactive fallout

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On this day in 1979, the Conservative Party won a majority in the general election and Margaret Thatcher became the UK's first female prime minister.

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July, 1865: Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt.

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TDIH: May 5, 1494 – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.

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TDIH: October 19, 1901, Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his dirigible No. 6 around the Eiffel Tower during a flight to win the Deutsch prize, and he did it in less than half an hour. This photo shows an earlier flight in dirigible No. 5.

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On this day : In 1812 :- Battle of Borodino - Napoleon Bonapartre wins a pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era, 70,000 are killed.

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1963, Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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TDIH: September 15, 2008 - On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the largest victim of the subprime mortgage crisis that would devastate financial markets and contribute to the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

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Exactly 600 years ago today, 31 August 1422, King Henry V of England died and was succeeded by his 9-month old son, King Henry VI

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On this day in 1937, during the Great Purge the Politburo approved NKVD order No. 00447 issued the day before, About operation to repress former kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements. By the end of the operation, the NKVD had executed 386,798 people according to this order

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TDIH: May 30, 1431. Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Illustration: Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake, by Hermann Stilke (1843).

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1987, The first British Prime Minister to win a third consecutive term

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Born 109 years ago today, Alan Turing was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and he is widely recognized as the father of theoretical computer science and Artificial Intelligence.

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On this day in 1973 John & Yoko announced a conceptual country called Nutopia

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June 12, 2018: US President Donald Trump meets North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, the first ever meeting between the leaders of those two countries

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On this day : In 2001 :- Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people

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January 6, 2021. Pro-Trump supporters break into the US Congress in a bid to overthrow the confirmation of the electoral process, causing elected representives to evacuate to avoid the riot.

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1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize

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1984, King of Pop Wins 8 Grammys in 26th Grammy Awards

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On this day in 1964, this critic wasn’t best pleased with the Beatles on Ed Sullivan...

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TDIH 4 June 1989: Beijing Regime massacres peaceful protesters

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On this day : In 1519 :- Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sets off on the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe (Magellan killed on route).

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Fascinating coincidence: On this day in 1941, Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opened the tomb of Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire, and allegedly found the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I. Three days later, Germany invaded the USSR.

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On this day : In 1792 :- French Revolution: The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy.

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On this day in 1750, you could get furniture in Edinburgh quite free of buggs

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This Day in History 07/18/1976: Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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This Day in History 08/24/1814: British troops invade Washington DC and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.

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TDIH: May 14, 1948. Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states. Photo: David Ben-Gurion declaring independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl.

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July 9, 1947: The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.

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On this day : (10th October) : In 1965 : Vinland Map is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440.

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TDIH: April 14, 1561, A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle. Illustration: Celestial phenomenon over the German city of Nuremberg in April, 1561, as printed in an illustrated news notice in the same month.

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TDIH: 14 March 1883, Karl Marx dies from bronchitis and pleurisy aged 64.

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20 July 1833-The Evening and Morning Star (Mormon newspaper) was destroyed by a proslavery mob in Independence, Missouri. A store owned by A. S. Gilbert was looted, Mormon bishop Edward Partridge was beaten, tarred and feathered, and forced to plead to have Mormons leave the county by next spring.

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TDIH: December 13, 2003. Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit. Photo: Samir, a 34-year-old Iraqi-American military interpreter who helped find Saddam and pull him from his hideaway.

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TDIH: April 8, 217, Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. He is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Illustration: Caracalla, 211.

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This Day in History 10/12/1982: Mattel releases Masters of the Universe action Figures. (Happy 40th He-Man!)

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This Day in History 10/20/1975: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that teachers can spank their pupils after giving them a warning and not as a first line punishment over a parents objection. 19 states still have these laws on the books today, but most schools choose to suspend students.

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This Day in History 08/13/1918: Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

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This Day in History 12/7/1941: Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor.

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This Day in History 09/06/1901: Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally sounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He used a revolver concealed under a cloth rag.

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TDIH: 14 december, 1799, The first president of the United States, George Washington, dies.

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TDIH: Feb 26, 1994. Comedian Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer.

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TDIH: November 14, 1908, Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light

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June 14: the 95th Birthday of Ernesto Che Guevara

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TDIH, july 4th 1826. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died.

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Mar 6, 1983 (36 years ago today): the 1st cell phone to be offered commercially went on sale to the public. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000x cost $3,995.

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On this day in History, the 23rd of December 177, Imperator Lucius Aurelius Commodus, made Roman Tribune. Marcus Aurelius was the first emperor since Vespasian to have a legitimate biological son and he himself was the fifth in the line of the so-called Five Good Emperors

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Apr 23, 1985 (34 years ago today): New Coke was introduced. 78 days later, Coca Cola Classic was brought back and New Coke became an afterthought (changing its name eventually to Coke II, somehow hanging on until 2002)

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TDIH: JFK makes a change.

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TDIH 31 Oct, 1917 The Last Great Cavalry Charge in History, Australians charged Turkish position at Beersheeba

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TDIH : April 12 , 1961. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.

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TDIH: Feb. 19, 1968. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood debuted on national TV 49 years ago today. The show ran until 2001, two years before he died.

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TDIH: June 19, 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

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TDIH: October 14, 1912. Teddy Roosevelt proves he is the most badass American. Ever.

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TDIH: July 3, 1844. The last pair of great auks is killed.

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TDIH, 12th of july 1804, Alexander Hamilton died.

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TDIH: July 7, 1928. Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

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TDIH:February 15,1965.Canada adopts maple leaf flag.

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TDIH: May 26, 1805. Napoleon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.

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TDIH: June 12, 1987. Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

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TDIH: March 22, 1972. In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. Dr. Baird was sent to jail 8 times in 5 different states for giving contraceptives to unmarried persons.

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TDIH: March 10, 1940. Chuck Norris is born.... After driving his mom to the hospital.

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TDIH: July 13, 1977. New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.

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TDIH: May 23, 1934. Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

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TDIH: March 29, 845. Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.

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TDIH: May 2, 1536. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason, and witchcraft.

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TDIH: June 20, 1248. The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter. It has no known date of foundation, but there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.

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TDIH: May 11, 868. A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.

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TDIH:February 17,1801.Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third president of the United States.

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TDIH: 24 june 1373, first recorded outbreak of Dance Mania in Aacken.

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TDIH: July 17, 1984. The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.

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TDIH: July 6, 1917. World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.

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TDIH: April 19, 1987. The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.

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June 20, 2001, the World Refugee Day is established. Since then, June 20 is considered the World Refugee Day. Some statistics: over 27,000 refugees have drowned in the Meditarannean since 2014. 52% of refugees come from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine, created by NATO's and Russia's imperialism.

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TDIH: March 27, 1886. Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. This picture was taken just before their surrender.

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TDIH: Dec 26, 1991, The Soviet Union is dissolved.

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TDIH: June 22, 1969. The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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TDIH: May 10, 1869. The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.

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TDIH: May 15, 1940. McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Today, McDonald's is one of the world's largest restaurant chains, serving approximately 68 million customers daily in 120 countries across approximately 36,899 outlets.

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On this day in 1983, NY Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull while warming up before the 5th inning.

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TDIH: June 9, 68 CE. Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

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TDIH : February 27,1922.Supreme Court defends women’s voting rights.

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TDIH: April 21, 1509. Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.

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TDIH: June 23, 1972. Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

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TDIH: July 27, 1900. Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, Hun would be a disparaging name for Germans.

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April 10, 1925. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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TDIH: April 6, 1896. In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.

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TDIH: March 30, 1867. Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

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TDIH: May 9, 1941. World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

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TDIH: June 17 1631 : - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband builds the Taj Mahal

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TDIH: May 24, 1607. 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.

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TDIH : April 8,563.Gautama Buddha is believed to be born.

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TDIH : February 22,1819.The U.S. acquires Florida from Spain .

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TDIH: September 5th, 1847; Jesse James, American outlaw, son of a clergyman, was born in Kearney, Missouri

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TDIH: March 6, 1836. After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

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TDIH:February 14,1929.Alexander Fleming officially introduces Penicillin.

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TDIH: May 6, 2004; the TV sitcom Friends airs season finale in 10th and final season in US (52.5 million viewers)

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TDIH: June 15, 1996. The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.

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TDIH: May 16, 1916. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.

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