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On This Day…1793
Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to
October 16, 2010
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Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to
Mata Hari, the archetype of the seductive female spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing squad at
U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager,
King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of
On this day in 1944, German Gen. Erwin Rommel, nicknamed “the Desert Fox,” is given the option of facing
British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape from
Don’t know why this is being put in because, of course, we’ll never forget what happened on this day
In 1745, one of the most intriguing people in history visited London. A man who was said to be
For ten years, James Berry of Yorkshire, England was a police constable, and during that time he made many
German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, dies at the age of 66. A
Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to
Mata Hari, the archetype of the seductive female spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing squad at
U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager,
King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of
On this day in 1944, German Gen. Erwin Rommel, nicknamed “the Desert Fox,” is given the option of facing
British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape from
Don’t know why this is being put in because, of course, we’ll never forget what happened on this day
In 1745, one of the most intriguing people in history visited London. A man who was said to be
For ten years, James Berry of Yorkshire, England was a police constable, and during that time he made many
German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, dies at the age of 66. A
