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80 years ago today, shortly after midnight, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in a map room within the Führerbunker. One day later, they committed suicide. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts was inaugurated in a private ceremony by the President of France. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today, Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Auschwitz concentration camp be established. (en.wikipedia.org)
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260 years ago today, Lady Emma Hamilton, an English maid, model, dancer and actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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450 years ago today, Marie de' Medici was born. She was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Soviet and American troops met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of World War II in Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, John de Mol Jr., a Dutch media proprietor, was born. He created the reality television formats Big Brother, Star Academy and The Voice. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, the West German Embassy in Stockholm was besieged by the Red Army Faction (RAF). (en.wikipedia.org)
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580 years ago today, Margaret of Anjou married King Henry VI of England at Titchfield Abbey in Hampshire. (en.wikipedia.org)
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250 years ago today, J. M. W. Turner, an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, federal agents seized Elián González, a Cuban boy, from relatives in a pre-dawn raid. (en.wikipedia.org)
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115 years ago today, Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, and essayist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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15 years ago today, an explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico, resulted in the largest marine oil spill in history. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, a truck bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others. (en.wikipedia.org)
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250 years ago today, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought. They were the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II, was executed by Dutch Nazi officials. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea. (en.wikipedia.org)
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175 years ago today, Marie Tussaud, a French artist, died. She is known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the US Army forced 1,000 people from Weimar to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. They were shown the crematorium and other evidence of Nazi atrocities. (en.wikipedia.org)
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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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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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