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June 24, 1812: The French invasion of Russia...
Crossing the Niemen River, June 1812. The Battle of Smolensk, August 1812. Bagration at Borodino, September 1812. Napoleon with Lauriston. Napoleon at Borodino, September 1812. French Retreat. June...
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June 25, 1947: Anne Frank’s diary is published. In June of...
June 25, 1947: Anne Frank’s diary is published. In June of 1942, a young girl named Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Two days later, she would begin a chronicle of her...
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June 26, 1948: “The Lottery” is published in The New...
June 26, 1948: “The Lottery” is published in The New Yorker. Shirley Jackson’s famous short story tells the chilling tale of a small American town and the horrific ritual - the “lottery” - that its...
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June 26, 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is...
June 26, 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is published. Fifteen years ago, the book series that defined a generation began. So have some quotes! There will be books written about Harry....
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June 27, 1941: A pogrom is carried out in Iaşi, Romania. When...
June 27, 1941: A pogrom is carried out in Iaşi, Romania. When war broke out in Europe, Romania was - officially - neutral, until anger over lost territory in 1940 set the stage for a coup that led the...
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Experiences on the Eastern Front (excerpts from Voices from the...
Italian soldiers. POA/ROA soldiers. Experiences on the Eastern Front (excerpts from Voices from the Third Reich: An Oral History) Between 1942 and 1944, millions of Axis soldiers and personnel were...
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June 28, 1577: Peter Paul Rubens is born. My passion comes from...
Self-Portrait, 1623. Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1610 - 1613. Two Satyrs, 1618-19. Saint George and the Dragon, 1605 - 07. portrait of some guy The Judgment of Paris, 1639. Four Studies of the Head of...
View ArticleJune 29, 1888: One of the earliest sound recordings - of...
June 29, 1888: One of the earliest sound recordings - of Handel’s Israel in Egypt - is recorded. Though Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s phonautograph recordings (which date back to 1860) have since...
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June 29, 1919: Slim Pickens is born. Most famously, this rodeo...
June 29, 1919: Slim Pickens is born. Most famously, this rodeo performer rode a nuclear bomb in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. He was also inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame and...
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June 30, 1934: The “Night of the Long Knives”...
June 30, 1934: The “Night of the Long Knives” begins. By July of 1933, the NSDAP was, by decree, the only legal political party in Germany; however, the Reischwehr was at best, apolitical and...
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June 30, 1559: Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a...
June 30, 1559: Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting tournament. Poor Henry had been celebrating a treaty he’d recently signed with the Habsburgs and the marriage of his daughter when...
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Members of the Hitler Youth look on as their Führer speaks, 1934...
Members of the Hitler Youth look on as their Führer speaks, 1934 (from Triumph of the Will). My German youth… You standing here today represent something that is happening all over Germany. We want...
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July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the moon. That’s one...
July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the moon. That’s one small step for man… one giant leap for mankind. photographs via
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July 21, 1899: Ernest Hemingway is born. There is nothing to...
July 21, 1899: Ernest Hemingway is born. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had...
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July 21, 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the...
Mission Control celebrations/Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot. Neil Armstrong, Commander. Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot. July 21, 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the...
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July 22, 1934: John Dillinger is mortally wounded outside a...
July 22, 1934: John Dillinger is mortally wounded outside a theater in Chicago. In the era of outlaws like Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Alvin Karpis, John Dillinger was once the most...
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July 24, 1911: Machu Picchu is (re)-discovered. In the fifteenth...
July 24, 1911: Machu Picchu is (re)-discovered. In the fifteenth century, Machu Picchu was built by the flourishing Inca Empire for purposes that are still uncertain. Some scholars theorize that it...
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July 25, 1946: The U.S. conducts nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll...
Test Baker July 25, 1946: The U.S. conducts nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads. Two separate bombs were detonated as part of the United States’ experiment to determine how...
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July 26, 1533: Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca Empire, is...
Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru, 1846. Funeral of Atahualpa. July 26, 1533: Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca Empire, is executed. In 1532, in town of Cajamarca, a Spanish ambush under Francisco...
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