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70 years ago today, Wernher von Braun, a German–American aerospace engineer and space architect, became a naturalized citizen of the United States. (en.wikipedia.org)
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161 years ago today Abraham Lincoln was shot, becoming the first US president to be assassinated. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Ritchie Blackmore, an English guitarist, was born. He was a founding member and the lead guitarist of Deep Purple. (en.wikipedia.org)
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370 years ago today, the apocryphal saying L'État, c'est moi (English: "I am the state") was allegedly said by Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, before the Parlement of Paris. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, the Beirut bus massacre happened. It is commonly presented as the spark that set off the Lebanese Civil War in the mid-1970s. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Josephine Baker, an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today, Luis Trenker, a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, alpinist, and bobsledder, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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270 years ago today, James Parkinson, an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, was executed in Flossenbürg concentration camp by hanging. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The German source for this anniversary (Deutschlandfunk) also mentions how nowadays he is used by right-wing propaganda in the USA, which even uses him to justify the storming of the Capitol.

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100 years ago today, The Great Gatsby, a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's. (en.wikipedia.org)
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205 years ago today, the Venus de Milo was discovered by a Greek farmer on the island of Milos, then still part of the Ottoman Empire. (en.wikipedia.org)
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135 years ago today, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist, was born. She was known for her staunch defense of the Everglades. (en.wikipedia.org)
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5 years ago today, at the age of 99 during the first COVID-19 national lockdown, Captain Tom Moore began to walk 100 lengths of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together. (en.wikipedia.org)
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210 years ago today, a giant eruption of Mount Tambora occurred, followed by thunderous detonation sounds heard in Ternate on the Molucca Islands 1,400 km (870 mi) away. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Chiang Kai-shek, a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and general, died. He led the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 until his death in 1975. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, the album Alien Lanes by the indie rock band Guided by Voices from Northridge, OH, was released. (resources.tidal.com)
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65 years ago today, William Wyler's Bible epic Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars, breaking the record of nine set the previous year by Gigi. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. (en.wikipedia.org)
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165 years ago today, the Pony Express, an American express mail service, was founded. It used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today and onwards, 21,857 Polish internees and prisoners were executed during the Katyn massacre, according to Soviet documents declassified in 1990. (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today, Edgar Wallace, a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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95 years ago today, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America agreed it would abide by the Hays Code, a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, Gisèle Freund, a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, died. She was famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists. (en.wikipedia.org)
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185 years ago today, Beau Brummell, an important figure in Regency England, died. For many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Eric Clapton, an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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