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  • 1992: McDonalds’ Murders

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    1992: McDonalds’ Murders

    1992: McDonalds’ Murders

    On this day one McDonald’s employee named Derek Wood (18) decided to rob the restaurant in which he worke ...

    On this day one McDonald’s employee named Derek Wood (18) decided to rob the restaurant in which he worked. Together with his two friends – MacNeil Freeman (23) and Darren Muise (18) – he went to his ...

    May 07, 2020
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  • 1987: Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was Forbidden Entry into the United States

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    1987: Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was Forbidden Entry into the United States

    1987: Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was Forbidden Entry into the United States

    On this day the U.S. Justice Department announced that it had placed Austrian President Kurt Waldheim on ...

    On this day the U.S. Justice Department announced that it had placed Austrian President Kurt Waldheim on the list of people banned from entering the United States. The decision was justified by Waldhe ...

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  • 1864: Massacre of Black People in the American Civil War

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    1864: Massacre of Black People in the American Civil War

    1864: Massacre of Black People in the American Civil War

    On this day the Confederate Army committed terrible massacre against a defeated northern unit composed la ...

    On this day the Confederate Army committed terrible massacre against a defeated northern unit composed largely of black soldiers.  In fact, despite the fact that the Union troops surrendered by throwi ...

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  • 1271: Knight Murdered in Church During Mass

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    1271: Knight Murdered in Church During Mass

    1271: Knight Murdered in Church During Mass

    A terrible crime occurred on this day in medieval history, when English knight Henry of Cornwall was murd ...

    A terrible crime occurred on this day in medieval history, when English knight Henry of Cornwall was murdered in an Italian church during mass. The church was that of St. Sylvester in the Italian town ...

    March 13, 2020
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  • 1996: Man Murders 16 Children and their Teacher in a Primary School

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    1996: Man Murders 16 Children and their Teacher in a Primary School

    1996: Man Murders 16 Children and their Teacher in a Primary School

    On this day 43-year-old Scot Thomas Watt Hamilton walked into a primary school in the town of Dunblane, S ...

    On this day 43-year-old Scot Thomas Watt Hamilton walked into a primary school in the town of Dunblane, Scotland, and started shooting at the children in class. He had with him an arsenal consisting o ...

    March 13, 2020
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  • 1904: Reinhard Heydrich – Hitler’s “Man with the Iron Heart”

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    1904: Reinhard Heydrich – Hitler’s “Man with the Iron Heart”

    1904: Reinhard Heydrich – Hitler’s “Man with the Iron Heart”

    Notorious Nazi war criminal Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most powerful members of the SS, was born on th ...

    Notorious Nazi war criminal Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most powerful members of the SS, was born on this day. He held the high ranks of SS-Obergruppenführer i General of Police (German: General der ...

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  • 1914: Germans Burn the Library of the Catholic University of Leuven

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    1914: Germans Burn the Library of the Catholic University of Leuven

    1914: Germans Burn the Library of the Catholic University of Leuven

    On this day in 1914, the Germans committed one of the most terrifying culturecides of World War I. They b ...

    On this day in 1914, the Germans committed one of the most terrifying culturecides of World War I. They burned the library of the Catholic University of Leuven, the most famous university in Belgium. ...

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  • 1991: African Americans Attack Jews

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    1991: African Americans Attack Jews

    1991: African Americans Attack Jews

    Unusual racist riots erupted in a part of Brooklyn, New York on this day. Many American Jews saw those ev ...

    Unusual racist riots erupted in a part of Brooklyn, New York on this day. Many American Jews saw those events as the largest pogrom of Jews in the history of the USA. The riots began after a 7-year-ol ...

    August 19, 2019
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