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1977: Mighty advisor of Japanese Emperor Hirohito in World War II

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1977: Mighty advisor of Japanese Emperor Hirohito in World War II

On this day died Japanese Marquis Kōichi Kido, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal at the Imperial Palace d ...

On this day died Japanese Marquis Kōichi Kido, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal at the Imperial Palace during World War II. In Japanese language that office was called “Naidaijin", which literally m ...

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1939: The Rule of the Last King of Iraq

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1939: The Rule of the Last King of Iraq

On this day in 1939 the rule of the last king of Iraq (in the history of this country) began. His name wa ...

On this day in 1939 the rule of the last king of Iraq (in the history of this country) began. His name was Faisal II, and it is particularly interesting that he was only three years old when he became ...

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1933: The First Flight Over Mount Everest Made by a Marquis

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1933: The First Flight Over Mount Everest Made by a Marquis

On this day in 1933, for the first time in history, a flight over the world’s highest peak – Mount Everes ...

On this day in 1933, for the first time in history, a flight over the world’s highest peak – Mount Everest – was accomplished. It was an ambitious flight led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, a very inter ...

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1945: Soviet Red Army Launches the Vienna Offensive

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1945: Soviet Red Army Launches the Vienna Offensive

On this day in 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched an offensive with the aim of conquering Vienna. Soviet ...

On this day in 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched an offensive with the aim of conquering Vienna. Soviet troops were approaching from the south after they had conquered Wiener Neustadt, Eisenstadt, Ne ...

April 02, 2020
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1944: Death of Japanese Admiral Mineichi Koga – Commander of the Most Powerful Japanese Fleet

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1944: Death of Japanese Admiral Mineichi Koga – Commander of the Most Powerful Japanese Fleet

Japanese admiral Mineichi Koga was killed on this day in 1944. At the moment of his death, he held the po ...

Japanese admiral Mineichi Koga was killed on this day in 1944. At the moment of his death, he held the position of the supreme commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Combin ...

March 31, 2020
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1944: Nazis Secretly Occupied Hungary

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1944: Nazis Secretly Occupied Hungary

On this day the German Army secretly took positions in Hungary. Namely, Hungary was, since before World W ...

On this day the German Army secretly took positions in Hungary. Namely, Hungary was, since before World War II, a signatory of the so-called Tripartite Pact, and an ally of the Third Reich. Way back i ...

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1945: One of the Most Famous War Photographs in History Taken

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1945: One of the Most Famous War Photographs in History Taken

On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which ...

On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which Clint Eastwood made the film Flags of Our Fathers, was taken. This is one of the most famous w ...

February 23, 2020
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1944: Americans Bomb the Netherlands and Kill more than a Thousand Innocent Civilians by Mistake

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|Date: February 22, 2020
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1944: Americans Bomb the Netherlands and Kill more than a Thousand Innocent Civilians by Mistake

On this day U.S. bombers flew from England to Germany and on their way, allegedly by mistake, dropped bom ...

On this day U.S. bombers flew from England to Germany and on their way, allegedly by mistake, dropped bombs on the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede, and Deventer. The Netherlands were at that ...

February 22, 2020
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