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October 2, 1944: The Warsaw Uprising ends. The Warsaw Uprising...
October 2, 1944: The Warsaw Uprising ends.The Warsaw Uprising was a military operation that took place between August and October of 1944, an ultimately failed attempt led by the Polish Home Army to...
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October 5, 1789: Parisian women march on Versailles. The...
October 5, 1789: Parisian women march on Versailles.The Women’s March on Versailles was one of the early significant events of the French Revolution. It took place three months after the Storming of...
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bunniesandbeheadings: unhistorical: October 5, 1789: A crowd...
bunniesandbeheadings:unhistorical:October 5, 1789: A crowd of Parisian women march on Versailles.The Women’s March on Versailles was one of the early significant events of the French Revolution. It...
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October 14, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins. One of the...
October 14, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins.One of the defining and tensest moments of the Cold War, “the ultimate exercise in nuclear brinkmanship”, began on this day in 1962, when an American...
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…the Saints are displayed in a cathedral in Eastern Germany...
…the Saints are displayed in a cathedral in Eastern Germany close to the Czech border and were acquired in the 17th century when there was a big trade in relics. They are said to be the remains of...
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October 16, 1793: Marie Antoinette is executed. On this day 220...
October 16, 1793: Marie Antoinette is executed.On this day 220 years ago, the controversial and reviled Queen of France was executed by guillotine nine months after her husband, Louis XVI, met the same...
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Earthrise from lunar orbit (Apollo 17), 1972. NASA
Earthrise from lunar orbit (Apollo 17), 1972.NASA
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October 28, 1897: Edith Head is born. Over her fifty-four-year...
October 28, 1897: Edith Head is born.Over her fifty-four-year career, Edith Head earned eight Academy Awards (from a total of thirty-five nominations), the most of any woman in film history. Born Edith...
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unhistorical: Danse Macabre, Op. 40 (1874),...
unhistorical:Danse Macabre, Op. 40 (1874), Camille Saint-Saëns
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November 1, 1963: Ngô Đình Diệm is deposed in a coup. The...
November 1, 1963: Ngô Đình Diệm is deposed in a coup.The Catholic anti-Communist leader of the Republic of Vietnam was elected to the presidency in a fraudulent 1955 referendum following the end of the...
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November 10, 1938: Kristallnacht takes place. The anti-Jewish...
November 10, 1938: Kristallnacht takes place.The anti-Jewish pogrom known as Kristallnacht (“crystal night”), or the “Night of Broken Glass” - after the shattered glass windows of Jewish-owned stores...
View ArticleYou have some really amazing posts of History all over the world. I'm...
Thank you! And the simple answer is that I’m kind of wary (i.e. scared. Extremely scared) of posting about things that I know nothing or barely anything about even given the vast resources available on...
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Tomb of Bayezid I, Bursa, John Frederick Lewis (c. 1840)
Tomb of Bayezid I, Bursa, John Frederick Lewis (c. 1840)
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Ammonitida and Prosobranchia from Ernst...
Ammonitida and Prosobranchia from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), 1904.
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November 15, 1920: The first General Assembly of the League of...
the "Big Four"November 15, 1920: The first General Assembly of the League of Nations convenes. Part I of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles provided for the creation of the League of Nations, one of the...
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November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg...
November 19, 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous 2-minute-long, 260 word speech at the dedication of a soldiers’ cemetery in...
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Novemer 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated. I turned...
Novemer 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated.I turned around and said to him, “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.” And there was a second or two, and I heard this noise.Nellie...
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November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of...
November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is published.On this day in 1859, Charles Darwin brought into the mainstream the theory of evolution by natural selection with the...
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