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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1988

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Christmas carol "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas Parish Church in Oberndorf, Austria

December 24, 1818

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1812 "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Fun Fact

Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries

December 19, 1922

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1989 "The Simpsons," created by Matt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"

Homer Simpson

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1773 Boston Tea Party incident – Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston Harbor to protest the British-imposed Tea Act and escalating taxation without representation in the British Parliament

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1577 Francis Drake sets sail from England on an epic three-year circumnavigation of the world aboard the "Pelican," later renamed the "Golden Hind"

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Fun Fact

The deepest point on land on Earth is identified under Denman Glacier, East Antarctica, at 3.5 km (11,500 ft) below sea level

December 12, 2019

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1520 Martin Luther publicly burns Pope Leo X's papal bull 'Exsurge Domine' which demanded that Luther recant his writings

1517 copy of Martin Luther's 95 theses, the publication of which began the Protestant Reformation in Europe

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences

The battle at Eureka Stockade in Australia, crucial to developing democracy in the country

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Fun Fact

Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee, and half a pie for 12 cents

November 25, 1834

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1963 US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Did You Know?

Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer

November 21, 1917

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the First Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers are killed or wounded

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1894 Serial killer H. H. Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons

Serial Killer H. H. Holmes

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Did You Know?

The Great Bell of Big Ben first chimes at the foot of the still-unfinished clock tower outside the Palace of Westminster

November 13, 1856

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1918 World War I Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, with hostilities ending at 11 a.m., "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1989 East Berlin opens its borders at the Bornholmer Strasse crossing when thousands arrive after East German government official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announces that restrictions on travel to the West will be lifted "immediately, without delay"

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1974 Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah

Serial Killer Ted Bundy

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1917 October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Did You Know? CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender in the American Civil War after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise that sinks or captures 38 vessels

November 6, 1865

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1605 Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot. The plot is discovered, and Guy Fawkes is caught, tortured, and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1841 The first wagon train arrives in California after a five-and-a-half-month, 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1922 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1992 Roman Catholic church apologizes for its treatment of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei after 359 years, acknowledging he had been right about the Earth revolving around the Sun

Astronomer and Physicist Galileo Galilei

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1998 Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 with 39 passengers and crew is hijacked by a Kurdish militant, who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland; the pilot lands in Ankara, tricking the hijacker into believing he is landing in Sofia to refuel

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹Did You Know?

St. Louis police try a new investigative method: fingerprints 🫆

October 28, 1904

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1904 The first section of the New York subway, running from Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem for a fare of one nickel and built by the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), opens

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th Army on Leyte

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1900 First modern submarine is commissioned by the US Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland

USS Holland (Submarine Torpedo Boat #1) underway in 1900

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1939 FDR and advisor Alexander Sachs meet to discuss Albert Einstein's letter warning about the possibilities of an atomic bomb

Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹2014 Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Human Rights Activist Malala Yousafzai

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹2018 Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again, prompting a diplomatic crisis

Dissident, Author and Columnist Jamal Khashoggi

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela

Macedonian King and Conqueror of Persia Alexander the Great

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials

Hermann Goering on trial at the Nuremberg Trials. He would later be sentenced to death, but committed suicide the night before his sentence was to be carried out.

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1789 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1875 Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time and jailed after receiving clothing stolen from a Chinese laundry but escapes two days later

Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1692 The last eight people - Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker - are hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony; 19 are hanged overall, with six other deaths caused by the hysteria

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1915 Cecil Chubb buys the prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600 and later donates it to the British nation

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1604 Siege of Ostend ends after Dutch and English forces surrender the city, allowing Ambrosio Spinola's Spanish army to recapture the devastated city and end one of the bloodiest sieges in history that caused an estimated 100,000 casualties

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, the new leader of Soviet Russia

Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1944 German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Free French forces of Philippe Leclerc, disobeying Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy the city. President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles de Gaulle gives a famous speech at the Hôtel de Ville.

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1968 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia at night to suppress the Prague Spring

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1945 V-J Day, the Empire of Japan surrenders unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War II (August 15 in Japan and other countries depending on the time zone)

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹3114 BC 3114-08-11 BCE is traditionally considered the start date of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1914 WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

An artist captures the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹762 City of Baghdad founded by Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad

The minaret of the Al Khalufa mosque in Baghdad, showcasing the minaret from the Abbasid era of the city

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1588 The "Invincible" Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, and several skirmishes follow forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland

English and Spanish fleets clash in the Battle of Gravelines in this historic painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1969 NASA's Apollo 11 lunar module, carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the surface of the Moon. Seven hours later, Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon at 10:56 pm EDT, and Aldrin joins him shortly after. Michael Collins remains in orbit in the command module.

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1334

Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹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 von Jungingen

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1789

Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris, now celebrated as France's national day

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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1861

"Wild Bill" Hickok legend is born as he reputedly shoots and kills David McCanles in Rock Creek, Nebraska Territory; Hickok later acquitted of murder as court finds he acted in self defense.

Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok

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📰 On this day 🔹1789

French Revolution: The Third Estate of the French Estates-General swears the Tennis Court Oath at the Palace of Versailles, swearing not to disband until a new constitution is formed

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📰 On this day 🔹1991

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police

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📰 On this day 🔹1815

Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon Bonaparte and France defeated by British forces under Duke of Wellington and Prussian troops under Field Marshall von Blücher

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📰 On this day 🔹1631

Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal

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📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know?

America's 1st purpose-built roller coaster ride, the Switchback Railway, opens at Coney Island, New York, built by LaMarcus Thompson

June 16, 1884

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📰 On this day 🔹1215

King John of England signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede near Windsor in Surrey, limiting royal authority and establishing the principle that the king and his government are not above the law

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📰 On this day 🔹1982

Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict

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📰 On this day 🔹1373

Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world's oldest still in existence) signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal

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📰 On this day 🔹1964

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

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📰 On this day 🔹1776

Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members

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📰 On this day 🔹2003

The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission

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📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact

The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. First legal corporation in the Americas.

June 9, 1650

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📰 On this day 🔹1789

James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

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📰 On this day 🔹1753

British Museum is founded by an Act of Parliament with royal assent from King George II, opens in 1759

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📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact

Electric iron patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely. It weighed almost 15 pounds and was very slow to heat up.

June 6, 1882

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📰 On this day 🔹1944

Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II

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📰 On this day 🔹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

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📰 On this day 🔹1989

Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

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📰 On this day 🔹1989

10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy

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📰 On this day 🔹1774

Boston Port Act: Following the passage of the act, the British government orders Port of Boston closed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party

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📰 On this day 🔹1916

Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet, 8,645 sailors are killed in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

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📰 On this day 🔹1539

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition of 10 ships and 700 men lands in Florida

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📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know?

American pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise his patent medicine - Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia

May 29, 1886

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📰 On this day 🔹1936

Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.

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📰 On this day 🔹1905

Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history

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📰 On this day 🔹1967

EMI rush releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in London and select markets in the UK, prior to nation-wide release; it would go to number one for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK

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📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact About May 25

Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

May 25, 1986

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📰 On this day 🔹1883

Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Chester A. Arthur and NY Governor Grover Cleveland

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📰 On this day 🔹1934

American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde, are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana

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📰 On this day 🔹1932

After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the first transatlantic solo flight by a woman

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📰 On this day 🔹1910

Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty

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📰 On this day 🔹1536

Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason

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📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great institutes free daily bread rations in Constantinople

May 18, 332

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📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know?

World Health Organization takes homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses

May 17, 1990

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📰 On this day 🔹1920

French heroine Joan of Arc is canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV

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📰 On this day 🔹1841

First emigrant wagon train to make it to California leaves Independence, Missouri on a 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada

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📰 On this day 🔹1948

David Ben-Gurion declares Israel independent from British administration, Golda Meir one of the signatories

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📰 On this day 🔹1787

First Fleet headed by Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of convicts for Botany Bay, Australia

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📰 On this day 🔹1789

William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice

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📰 On this day 🔹1812

British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. Ironically, descendants of both later stand for the same seat in Parliament at the same time, but neither wins

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📰 On this day 🔹1869

The Golden Spike is driven, completing the first US Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, connecting the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific

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📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact About May 9

Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars

May 9, 2012

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📰 On this day 🔹1945

V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender

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