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On This Day…in 1851
On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod,
November 14, 2013
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On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod,
On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael
The United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The
Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, died of peritonitis in a Detroit
John McVitie, a British drug dealer and thief known as “Jack the Hat,” is stabbed to death in London
On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at
The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound from New
Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the
The first parachute jump of note is made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris.
A violin that was being played as the Titanic went down was sold for $1.46 million at auction yesterday,
On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod,
On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael
The United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The
Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, died of peritonitis in a Detroit
John McVitie, a British drug dealer and thief known as “Jack the Hat,” is stabbed to death in London
On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at
The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound from New
Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the
The first parachute jump of note is made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris.
A violin that was being played as the Titanic went down was sold for $1.46 million at auction yesterday,
