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1990: Boris Yeltsin Elected President of Russia

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1990: Boris Yeltsin Elected President of Russia

On this day in 1990, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ru ...

On this day in 1990, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). At that time the USSR still existed, and th ...

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1944: Yugoslav Partisans Kill SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth

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1944: Yugoslav Partisans Kill SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer, and participated in Nazi projects – the Aktion T4 pr ...

Christian Wirth held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer, and participated in Nazi projects – the Aktion T4 program and Operation Reinhard (German: Aktion Reinhard). They included the most terrible mass c ...

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1659: Richard Cromwell and the Protectorate

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1659: Richard Cromwell and the Protectorate

On this day in 1659, (according to the Julian calendar, which was in use in England at the time), Richard ...

On this day in 1659, (according to the Julian calendar, which was in use in England at the time), Richard Cromwell resigned as the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. ...

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1961: President Kennedy Announces the Apollo Program

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1961: President Kennedy Announces the Apollo Program

On this day in 1961, the U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech in which he announced the Apol ...

On this day in 1961, the U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech in which he announced the Apollo program. Namely, he announced that the United States would send a man to the Moon before the ...

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1900: Hans Frank: The Governor-General of Poland

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1900: Hans Frank: The Governor-General of Poland

The famous Nazi official Hans Frank, one of the 23 defendants in the Nuremberg Trials, was born on this d ...

The famous Nazi official Hans Frank, one of the 23 defendants in the Nuremberg Trials, was born on this day in 1900. During World War II, he held an important position, and responsible for the crimes ...

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1939: The Pact of Steel Between Hitler’s Third Reich and Fascist Italy

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1939: The Pact of Steel Between Hitler’s Third Reich and Fascist Italy

The Germans called the pact "Der Stahlpakt", and the Italians "Patto d'Acciaio". The states were committe ...

The Germans called the pact "Der Stahlpakt", and the Italians "Patto d'Acciaio". The states were committed to help each other during war. Only three months and one week later, World War II began, when ...

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1991: Jiang Qing: The Wife of Mao Tse-tung, Actress and Powerful Party Official

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1991: Jiang Qing: The Wife of Mao Tse-tung, Actress and Powerful Party Official

The wife of Mao Tse-tung, known as Madame Mao in the West, died on this day in 1991. She used many names ...

The wife of Mao Tse-tung, known as Madame Mao in the West, died on this day in 1991. She used many names during her life due to her artistic career, and revolutionary events in China at the time. She ...

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1906: Carl Schurz: The German Whose Wife Opened the First German-language “Kindergarten” in the USA

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1906: Carl Schurz: The German Whose Wife Opened the First German-language “Kindergarten” in the USA

This day marked the death of Carl Schurz, the first German-American to become a member of the U.S. Senate ...

This day marked the death of Carl Schurz, the first German-American to become a member of the U.S. Senate. He was born in the German town of Liblar not far from Cologne. It is a predominantly Catholic ...

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