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October 23, 1942: The Second Battle of El Alamein...
Bernard Montgomery Erwin Rommel October 23, 1942: The Second Battle of El Alamein begins. Seventy years ago, the North African campaign reached its climax when Allied forces decisively defeated...
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Dan Quayle - Lloyd Bentsen Debate, October 1988.
Dan Quayle - Lloyd Bentsen Debate, October 1988.
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October 26, 1861: The Pony Express ceases operations. This...
October 26, 1861: The Pony Express ceases operations. This short-lived mail service was once the fastest and most direct form of communication between the eastern and western portions of the United...
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unhistorical: October 26, 1861: The Pony Express ceases...
unhistorical: October 26, 1861: The Pony Express ceases operations. This short-lived mail service was once the fastest and most direct form of communication between the eastern and western portions of...
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October 27, 1858: Theodore Roosevelt is born. Theodore...
October 27, 1858: Theodore Roosevelt is born. Theodore Roosevelt took office as president of the United States upon the assassination of William McKinley in 1901; interestingly enough, although he is...
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October 28, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis ends. The Cuban...
Americans watch Kennedy's televised address. October 28, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis ends. The Cuban Missile Crisis marked the highest point of tension between the United States and USSR during the...
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October 29, 1897: Joseph Goebbels is born. Hitler’s chief...
October 29, 1897: Joseph Goebbels is born. Hitler’s chief propagandist (“Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda”) was a bitter, diminutive figure described by Albert Speer as an...
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Inside Paris’s Grand Guignol, a theatre that was once...
Inside Paris’s Grand Guignol, a theatre that was once popular for its live horror/shock shows; images from Life. Plays with plots like these were the norm: When a doctor finds his wife’s lover in his...
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November 1, 1814: The Congress of Vienna opens. After Napoleon...
November 1, 1814: The Congress of Vienna opens. After Napoleon was defeated by the Sixth Coalition and exiled to the island of Elba, the major European powers met in Vienna over the course of seven...
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November 2, 1963: Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated. Ngo Dinh Diem...
November 2, 1963: Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated. Ngo Dinh Diem was South Vietnam’s first president, having achieved the office through a fraudulent 1955 referendum that credited him with 98.2% of the...
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November 3, 1957: Sputnik 2 is launched. Designed and built in...
November 3, 1957: Sputnik 2 is launched. Designed and built in around four weeks, this Soviet satellite was the second ever launched. Sputnik 2 was notably also carrying Laika, a dog (a stray picked...
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November 4, 1916: Walter Cronkite is born. In 1962, Walter...
November 4, 1916: Walter Cronkite is born. In 1962, Walter Cronkite became anchorman for the CBS Evening News, marking the start of a nineteen-year career during which he would acquire the title “the...
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November 5, 1605: The Gunpowder Plot fails. On November 5, 1605,...
November 5, 1605: The Gunpowder Plot fails.On November 5, 1605, a man named Guy Fawkes was arrested after he was found beneath the House of Lords near dozens of barrels of gunpowder, ready to be lit....
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Oh, right, as someone just pointed out - “anarchist” wouldn’t really apply to Fawkes and the other conspirators, would it? Interesting proposition nevertheless.
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historical-hatred: Erm, ‘Anarchist’? Step away from V For...
historical-hatred:Erm, ‘Anarchist’? Step away from V For Vendetta… Fawkes [and his many conspirators] wanted a monarchy - just a Catholic one.The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots wouldn’t have been...
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henrydlacklaw: unhistorical: historical-hatred: Erm,...
henrydlacklaw:unhistorical:historical-hatred:Erm, ‘Anarchist’? Step away from V For Vendetta… Fawkes [and his many conspirators] wanted a monarchy - just a Catholic one.The execution of Mary, Queen of...
View Articlewould you agree that Fawkes was more of a terrorist than anarchist?
Well, what he wanted was to replace one monarch with another, so how accurate is it to him as an “anarchist”?But I don’t agree with people who rail against those who use the Guy Fawkes mask as a symbol...
View Articlewhat if people celebrated Wat Tyler
Hey, maybe someone should write a dystopian novel/comic inspired by him.
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