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May 22, 1945: Operation Paperclip begins. On May 22, 1945, Major...
the von Braun teamMay 22, 1945: Operation Paperclip begins.On May 22, 1945, Major Robert B. Staver transmitted a telegram to the Pentagon stressing the need for the U.S. government to initiate an...
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May 4, 1970: The Kent State shootings take place. The shooting...
May 4, 1970: The Kent State shootings take place.The shooting of unarmed students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University, was one of the most notorious domestic events of the...
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May 24, 1743: Jean-Paul Marat is born. Jean-Paul Marat was one...
May 24, 1743: Jean-Paul Marat is born.Jean-Paul Marat was one of the infamous and radical figures of the French Revolution. Born in Switzerland, he moved to Paris in 1776, two years after Louis XVI...
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Thank you guys! I may be one of the slowest message-answerers in...
Thank you guys! I may be one of the slowest message-answerers in the world, so my apologies if you’ve sent a message and I haven’t replied yet.
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May 25, 1977: Star Wars is released. Before the release of his...
May 25, 1977: Star Wars is released.Before the release of his first Star Wars film, George Lucas was convinced that his genre-busting space opera epic would flop at the box office, so he made a bet...
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May 27, 1905: The Battle of Tsushima is fought. The Battle of...
May 27, 1905: The Battle of Tsushima is fought.The Battle of Tsushima was a decisive battle fought during the Russo-Japanese War between (naturally) the Russian and Japanese navies on the Tsushima...
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May 29, 1453: Constantinople is captured by Ottoman forces. On...
May 29, 1453: Constantinople is captured by Ottoman forces.On this day in 1453, the great Byzantine capital, founded by its namesake Constantine the Great over a millennium earlier, fell to the Ottoman...
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The Entry of Mahomet II into Constantinople (1876) - Benjamin...
The Entry of Mahomet II into Constantinople (1876) - Benjamin Constant
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penguinworksart: unhistorical: The Entry of Mahomet II into...
penguinworksart:unhistorical:The Entry of Mahomet II into Constantinople (1876) - Benjamin ConstantThe guy on the horse looks like King Arthur from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Kriegsmarine aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
Kriegsmarine aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
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Ed White becomes the first American to perform a...
Ed White becomes the first American to perform a “spacewalk”, June 1965.
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June 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated. Five years...
June 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.Five years after the assassination of his older brother in 1963, Robert Kennedy was himself gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los...
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Peace - Burial at Sea (1842) - J.M.W. Turner
Peace - Burial at Sea (1842) - J.M.W. Turner
View Article"The Red Wedding is based on a couple real events from Scottish history. One...
“The Red Wedding is based on a couple real events from Scottish history. One was a case called The Black Dinner. The king of Scotland was fighting the Black Douglas clan. He reached out to make peace....
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June 6, 1944: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins. In June of...
June 6, 1944: The Allied invasion of Normandy begins.In June of 1940, Nazi Germany successfully completed its invasion of France with the signing of an armistice at Compiègne, which divided France into...
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Gustave Doré → the Crusades Description: Sultan Muhammad II...
Gustave Doré → the CrusadesDescription: Sultan Muhammad II lunges into the sea on horseback after the Ottomans are weakened.
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June 7, 1099: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. The weeklong siege...
June 7, 1099: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.The weeklong siege of Jerusalem by crusaders of the First Crusade ended in the city’s capture and the slaughtering of many of its inhabitants. The main aim...
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1. I would love to say “yes, of course!” but I...
1. I would love to say “yes, of course!” but I can’t promise anything, because most of what I post is related to subjects I’ve studied in class or read about, and unfortunately, most of what I’ve...
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June 8, 1972: Nick Ut photographs Phan Thị Kim Phúc in his...
June 8, 1972: Nick Ut photographs Phan Thị Kim Phúc in his Pulitzer Prize-winning image. Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, born Huỳnh Công Út in Long Ang, Vietnam, was twenty-one when he captured...
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Gustave Doré → the Crusades Description: The sight of Antioch,...
Gustave Doré → the CrusadesDescription: The sight of Antioch, so celebrated in the annals of Christianity, revives the enthusiasm of the Crusaders.
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