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1944: Hitler’s Greatest Battleship Tirpitz Sunk

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1944: Hitler’s Greatest Battleship Tirpitz Sunk

The largest warship at Nazi Germany’s disposal capsized on this day in Norwegian waters. It was the famou ...

The largest warship at Nazi Germany’s disposal capsized on this day in Norwegian waters. It was the famous battleship Tirpitz, the pride of the German fleet from the year 1941. The huge Tirpitz had a ...

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764: Tibetans Occupy the Capital of China

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764: Tibetans Occupy the Capital of China

A really unusual event occurred on this day back in 764. Namely, Tibetan military forces occupied the hug ...

A really unusual event occurred on this day back in 764. Namely, Tibetan military forces occupied the huge capital of China – Chang’an – once the largest city in the entire world. From the 7th to the ...

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1938: Hermann Goering Suggests that Madagascar should Become a Jewish Country

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1938: Hermann Goering Suggests that Madagascar should Become a Jewish Country

Back in the 19th century, there were different opinions of the territory on which European Jews could rel ...

Back in the 19th century, there were different opinions of the territory on which European Jews could relocate. Relocation was, on one hand, sought by anti-Semites trying to get rid of the Jews. On th ...

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1933: The first known footage of the Loch Ness monster

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1933: The first known footage of the Loch Ness monster

On this day Briton Hugh Gray took first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. He was walking home from c ...

On this day Briton Hugh Gray took first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. He was walking home from church that day carrying a small camera. He saw a large creature in the water, rising almost a m ...

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1912: Frozen Bodies of Robert Scott and his Colleagues Found

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1912: Frozen Bodies of Robert Scott and his Colleagues Found

Robert F. Scott was a British polar explorer. In the year 1910 he started a bold expedition to Antarctica ...

Robert F. Scott was a British polar explorer. In the year 1910 he started a bold expedition to Antarctica with the goal of being the first to conquer the South Pole. On 17 January 1912 his team manage ...

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1890: Tallest Church Completed (161.5 meters)

1740: Prussian King Frederick II the Great Accedes to the Throne

1469: King Manuel I of Portugal – Ruler of the Sea from Brazil to China

1962: The Execution of Adolf Eichmann in Israel

1809: Death of Jean Lannes – One of Napoleon’s Most Daring and Talented Generals

1990: First Multiparty Parliament in Croatia

1975: European Space Agency (ESA) Founded

1934: Russian General Alexey Leonov – First Man to Walk in Space

1868: Last Public Execution in Vienna

1536: Henry VIII Marries his Third Wife only 11 Days after his Second Wife’s Execution

1948: The First UN Peacekeepers

1900: Why was the Capital of Chad Named after a Frenchman?

1814: What Became of Napoleon’s Divorced Wife, Josephine?

1954: First Bilderberg Conference

1953: The First Conquest of Mount Everest was made by a New Zealander

1944: Hitler’s Greatest Battleship Tirpitz Sunk

1944: Hitler’s Greatest Battleship Tirpitz Sunk

764: Tibetans Occupy the Capital of China

764: Tibetans Occupy the Capital of China

1938: Hermann Goering Suggests that Madagascar should Become a Jewish Country

1938: Hermann Goering Suggests that Madagascar should Become a Jewish Country

1933: The first known footage of the Loch Ness monster

1933: The first known footage of the Loch Ness monster

1912: Frozen Bodies of Robert Scott and his Colleagues Found

1912: Frozen Bodies of Robert Scott and his Colleagues Found