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1811: Birth of Napoleon II – The Only Legitimate Son of Napoleon Bonaparte

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1811: Birth of Napoleon II – The Only Legitimate Son of Napoleon Bonaparte

The little boy was given the title King of Rome and his birth was heralded by a salvo of 101 cannon shots ...

The little boy was given the title King of Rome and his birth was heralded by a salvo of 101 cannon shots. Napoleon II Bonaparte, the only legitimate son of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was born ...

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235: Who was the Tallest among the Roman Emperors?

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235: Who was the Tallest among the Roman Emperors?

There are even claims that the emperor Maximinus Thrax was 260 cm tall. His thumb was reportedly so thick ...

There are even claims that the emperor Maximinus Thrax was 260 cm tall. His thumb was reportedly so thick that he wore his wife’s bracelet on it as a ring. On this day Maximinus Thrax – most li ...

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1916: Albert Einstein Publishes the Theory of Relativity

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1916: Albert Einstein Publishes the Theory of Relativity

Einstein’s theory explains the gravitational force to be a result of the curvature of space and time. On ...

Einstein’s theory explains the gravitational force to be a result of the curvature of space and time. On this day Annalen der Physik, Einstein’s general theory of relativity, was published in a German ...

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1854: The Party that Produced the most U.S. Presidents

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1854: The Party that Produced the most U.S. Presidents

This day in 1854 marked the first public meeting of a party named the Republican Party in the U.S. Later, ...

This day in 1854 marked the first public meeting of a party named the Republican Party in the U.S. Later, that party grew into one of the two leading parties in U.S. politics, but its beginnings were ...

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1956: Tunisia Becomes an Independent Kingdom

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1956: Tunisia Becomes an Independent Kingdom

Tunisia became an independent kingdom on this day in 1956. Bey Muhammad VIII al-Amin, then became the new ...

Tunisia became an independent kingdom on this day in 1956. Bey Muhammad VIII al-Amin, then became the new king, addressed as His Royal Highness. His former title, bey, was a holdover from the time whe ...

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1602: The Largest Company in World History had its own Army and Money

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1602: The Largest Company in World History had its own Army and Money

The company that later grew into the world’s largest corporation was founded on this day in 1602. Indeed, ...

The company that later grew into the world’s largest corporation was founded on this day in 1602. Indeed, the “Dutch East India Company” was, according to some, the largest corporation in history. The ...

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1900: Tesla Patented Wireless Energy Transfer

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1900: Tesla Patented Wireless Energy Transfer

On this day Nikola Tesla received a patent for the wireless transmission of electricity. He thought that ...

On this day Nikola Tesla received a patent for the wireless transmission of electricity. He thought that the need for transmission lines and power lines would thus be eliminated. On the basis of this ...

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1922: The First American Aircraft Carrier had Carrier Pigeons

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1922: The First American Aircraft Carrier had Carrier Pigeons

On this day the first aircraft carrier in history officially became part of the U.S. Navy. Her name was U ...

On this day the first aircraft carrier in history officially became part of the U.S. Navy. Her name was USS Langley, full classification symbol CV-1. The U.S. Navy abbreviation CV indicates a Fleet ai ...

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