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2009: Largest Island in the World Becomes Politically Autonomous

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2009: Largest Island in the World Becomes Politically Autonomous

On this day in the year 2009, Greenland gained autonomy from Denmark. Greenland is the largest island in ...

On this day in the year 2009, Greenland gained autonomy from Denmark. Greenland is the largest island in the world with 2,166,086 square kilometers (about the half of the European Union). It is intere ...

June 21, 2019
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1922: Niels and Aage Bohr – Father and Son with a Nobel Prize

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1922: Niels and Aage Bohr – Father and Son with a Nobel Prize

On this day in 1922, Aage Bohr, Nobel Prize winner and son of another famous Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, w ...

On this day in 1922, Aage Bohr, Nobel Prize winner and son of another famous Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, was born. They both received the Nobel Prize in the same scientific field – Physics. It is inter ...

June 19, 2019
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1219: Oldest National Flag in the World

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1219: Oldest National Flag in the World

On this day, according to legend, the oldest national flag in the world that is still in use was created. ...

On this day, according to legend, the oldest national flag in the world that is still in use was created. It is the Danish flag with a white cross on a red field. The Danes call it “Dannebrog”, which ...

June 15, 2019
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1868: Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich’s Shipwreck

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1868: Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich’s Shipwreck

This day in 1868 marked the shipwreck of the Russian warship “Alexander Nevsky” near the coast of Denmark ...

This day in 1868 marked the shipwreck of the Russian warship “Alexander Nevsky” near the coast of Denmark. Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, the son of the former Russian Emperor Alexander II (member o ...

September 25, 2018
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1817: Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel – the “Grandmother of Europe”

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1817: Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel – the “Grandmother of Europe”

Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel, the "Grandmother of Europe", was born on this day in 1817. Her descendan ...

Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel, the "Grandmother of Europe", was born on this day in 1817. Her descendants became kings of different countries, so her “impact” is similar to the impact of the famous ...

September 07, 2018
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Danish King who is the Ancestor of Most Modern European Rulers – 1906

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|Date: January 29, 2016
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Danish King who is the Ancestor of Most Modern European Rulers – 1906

The four grandsons of King Christian IX were the kings of four different European states (Britain, Denmar ...

The four grandsons of King Christian IX were the kings of four different European states (Britain, Denmark, Greece, and Norway). His fifth grandson was the last reigning Russian emperor, Nicholas II. ...

January 29, 2016
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LEGO Bricks Patented – 1958

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|Date: January 28, 2016
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LEGO Bricks Patented – 1958

Hundreds of billions of LEGO Bricks have been produced to date (their total number is estimated at 560 bi ...

Hundreds of billions of LEGO Bricks have been produced to date (their total number is estimated at 560 billion). Plastic Lego Bricks were patented on this day in 1958. It is interesting that these 19 ...

January 28, 2016
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1946: The USSR Once Occupied Bornholm, Part of Denmark

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|Date: April 05, 2015
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1946: The USSR Once Occupied Bornholm, Part of Denmark

On this day the Soviet occupation troops finally left the Danish island of Bornholm. It is not widely kno ...

On this day the Soviet occupation troops finally left the Danish island of Bornholm. It is not widely known that the Soviets, for some time after World War II, kept that part of Denmark under occupati ...

April 05, 2015
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