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1271: Knight Murdered in Church During Mass

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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 ...

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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

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 ...

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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”

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

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

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 ...

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1981: Head of Adam Walsh, Kidnapped Son of Wealthy John Walsh, Found

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1981: Head of Adam Walsh, Kidnapped Son of Wealthy John Walsh, Found

On this day in 1981, the severed head of Adam Walsh, murdered child of the wealth John Walsh, was found. ...

On this day in 1981, the severed head of Adam Walsh, murdered child of the wealth John Walsh, was found. Adam Walsh is one of the most famous kidnap victims in the history of the USA. He was kidnapped ...

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1918: Russian Imperial Romanov Family Killed by the Bolsheviks

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1918: Russian Imperial Romanov Family Killed by the Bolsheviks

On this day in 1918, the Bolsheviks killed the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, and his numerous family. ...

On this day in 1918, the Bolsheviks killed the last Russian emperor Nicholas II, and his numerous family. In 1917, Nicholas II abdicated on its own behalf, and on behalf of his son Alexei Nikolaevich, ...

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1946: Draža Mihailović Executed

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1946: Draža Mihailović Executed

On this day in 1946, the Yugoslav communist authorities executed the famous Chetnik leader Draža Mihailov ...

On this day in 1946, the Yugoslav communist authorities executed the famous Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović. Four months before Mihailović's execution, the Partisans captured him near Višegrad, Bosni ...

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