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  • 2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks on the United States

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    2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks on the United States

    2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks on the United States

    The hijackers abducted four planes, and simultaneously attacked multiple targets in the United States on ...

    The hijackers abducted four planes, and simultaneously attacked multiple targets in the United States on this day in 2001. Two planes focused on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, one plane on ...

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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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  • 1942: Why was the Project of Making an American Nuclear Bomb Called the Manhattan Project?

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    1942: Why was the Project of Making an American Nuclear Bomb Called the Manhattan Project?

    1942: Why was the Project of Making an American Nuclear Bomb Called the Manhattan Project?

    This day in 1942 marked the official beginning of the Manhattan Project, within which the first American ...

    This day in 1942 marked the official beginning of the Manhattan Project, within which the first American nuclear weapons were made. The story of how the project got its name is particularly interestin ...

    August 13, 2019
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  • 1926: Harry Houdini Performs his Greatest Feat

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    |Date: August 06, 2019
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    1926: Harry Houdini Performs his Greatest Feat

    1926: Harry Houdini Performs his Greatest Feat

    On this day the legendary illusionist Harry Houdini, a Hungarian Jew by birth and whose real name was Eri ...

    On this day the legendary illusionist Harry Houdini, a Hungarian Jew by birth and whose real name was Erich Weisz, performed one of his greatest feats – spending 91 minutes trapped underwater. In doin ...

    August 06, 2019
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  • 1890: First Man Executed at Electric Chair

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    1890: First Man Executed at Electric Chair

    1890: First Man Executed at Electric Chair

    On this day the electric chair was for the first time in history used as a method of execution. On it die ...

    On this day the electric chair was for the first time in history used as a method of execution. On it died William Kemmler, sentenced for murdering his wife with an ax. The execution took place in the ...

    August 06, 2019
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Nikita Khrushchev

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