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1954: The Bloody Battle of Dien Bien Phu – The Worst Defeat of the French in Vietnam

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1954: The Bloody Battle of Dien Bien Phu – The Worst Defeat of the French in Vietnam

The bloody battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam began on this day in 1954. It was the greatest battle among ...

The bloody battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam began on this day in 1954. It was the greatest battle among the French and the Vietnamese communists during the French colonial presence in Indochina. ...

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1985: Gorbachev Becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party and Leader of the Soviet Union

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1985: Gorbachev Becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party and Leader of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR on this day in 198 ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR on this day in 1985. Due to the fall of the USSR, Gorbachev also became the last General Secretary in history. It ...

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2011: Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima in Japan

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2011: Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima in Japan

On this day is the anniversary of a serious accident in Japan that caused the worst nuclear disaster in h ...

On this day is the anniversary of a serious accident in Japan that caused the worst nuclear disaster in history after Chernobyl. Namely, on 11 March 2011 at 14:46, local time, a magnitude 9.03 earthqu ...

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1945: Largest Bombing Raid in History

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1945: Largest Bombing Raid in History

It is estimated that the strongest bomber attack in the history of warfare was conducted on 9 and 10 Marc ...

It is estimated that the strongest bomber attack in the history of warfare was conducted on 9 and 10 March 1945, when U.S. bombers attacked the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Approximately 100,000 people ...

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1967: Stalin’s Daughter Defects to the USA

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1967: Stalin’s Daughter Defects to the USA

Stalin married twice. His first wife died early, aged only 22, some 10 years before the October Revolutio ...

Stalin married twice. His first wife died early, aged only 22, some 10 years before the October Revolution. His second wife was called Nadezhda Alliluyeva and he married her after the revolution. In a ...

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1324 – Death of Marco Polo

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1324 – Death of Marco Polo

Marco Polo spent a long time in prison in Genoa, and dictated the stories from his famous journey to a co ...

Marco Polo spent a long time in prison in Genoa, and dictated the stories from his famous journey to a colleague named Rustichello da Pisa. This day in 1324 marked the death of the famous medieval tr ...

January 08, 2020
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72: One of Jesus’s Apostles Died in India

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72: One of Jesus’s Apostles Died in India

According to tradition, St. Thomas the Apostle died a martyr’s death on this day. That saint is often kno ...

According to tradition, St. Thomas the Apostle died a martyr’s death on this day. That saint is often known as “Doubting Thomas” because he didn’t believe the other apostles when they told him about t ...

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1515: Admiral who Founded the First European Colonial Empire in Asia

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1515: Admiral who Founded the First European Colonial Empire in Asia

On this day the famous Portuguese sailor and army commander – Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque – died. His r ...

On this day the famous Portuguese sailor and army commander – Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque – died. His role in world history was very important because he founded the first European colonial empire i ...

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