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470 years ago today, because he opposed Catholicism, John Rogers was burned at the stake as the first English Protestant executed for heresy under the reign of Mary I. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the Yalta Conference started. It was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the US, the UK and the USSR to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, in mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today, state president of South Africa F. W. De Klerk unbanned the ANC and other illegal organisations and announced the beginning of formal negotiations for a peaceful settlement. (en.wikipedia.org)
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300 years ago today, J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today, Leonarde Keeler conducted the first use of his invention, the Keeler Polygraph—otherwise known as the lie detector. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Jānis Lipke, a Latvian rescuer of Jews in Riga in World War II from the Holocaust in Latvia, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Preity Zinta, an Indian actress and entrepreneur, was born. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. (en.wikipedia.org)
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435 years ago today, Lady Anne Clifford, an English peeress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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5 years ago today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, Colleen McCullough, an Australian author, died. She is known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Tom Selleck, an American actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp. (en.wikipedia.org)
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140 years ago today, the siege of Khartoum ended as Mahdist forces defeated the Egyptian garrison and captured the city. (en.wikipedia.org)
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110 years ago today, Alexander Graham Bell made the first ceremonial transcontinental telephone call. (en.wikipedia.org)
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65 years ago today, Diana Barrymore, an American film and stage actress, died. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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510 years ago today, Francis I, a great-great-grandson of Charles V, was crowned king of France in the Reims Cathedral. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, in an away match against Crystal Palace, professional footballer Eric Cantona launched a 'kung-fu' style kick into the crowd, directed at Palace supporter Matthew Simmons. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today, the West German Bundestag declared the People's Court to be an instrument of judicial murder. It was a Sondergericht ("special court") of Nazi Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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German Sources:

  • https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/10/10118.pdf (page 8761 to 8767, Nichtigkeit der Entscheidungen der als „Volksgerichtshof" und „Sondergerichte" bezeichneten Werkzeuge des nationalsozialistischen Unrechtsregimes (English: Invalidity of the decisions of the tools of the National Socialist regime of injustice known as the “People's Court” and “Special Courts”))

  • Kalenderblatt (Deutschlandfunk)

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160 years ago today, British troops invaded south Taranaki, New Zealand. (nzhistory.govt.nz)
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30 years ago today, the murder trial of O. J. Simpson started. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Maria Tallchief, an American ballerina, was born. She was America's first major prima ballerina and the first Osage Tribe member to hold the rank. (en.wikipedia.org)
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980 years ago today, Edward the Confessor, King of England, married Edith, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex. (en.wikipedia.org)
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110 years ago today, rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, Johnny Carson, an American television host, comedian, and writer, died. He is best known as the host of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). (en.wikipedia.org)
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