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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Mon Nov 25, 2019 8:07 am ]
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2016 Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere and became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:27 pm ]
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Premiere of Casablanca
Set in occupied Morocco during World War II, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, Casablanca premiered this day in 1942 and became one of Hollywood's most-revered films.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:05 am ]
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Nobel Prizes established
Through the will drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobel—the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives—the Nobel Prizes were established on this day in 1895.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Thu Nov 28, 2019 9:43 pm ]
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Opening of Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference, attended by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, at which Stalin pressed for an invasion of France, opened this day in 1943.


https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/November-28

Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:36 am ]
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United Nations resolution for the partition of Palestine
On this day in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (not implemented) calling for the partition of Palestine into two separate states—an Arab and a Jewish one—that would retain an economic union.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:04 am ]
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Independence of Barbados
Barbados, an island nation in the Caribbean situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of the Windward Islands, had gained internal self-rule in 1961 and achieved its full independence from Britain on this day in 1966.


https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/November-30

Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sun Dec 01, 2019 8:51 am ]
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Rosa Parks's refusal to relinquish her bus seat
This day in 1955, in violation of segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested, sparking a 381-day bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.


https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/December-1

Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:03 pm ]
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2001 Following revelations of massive accounting fraud, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection; the energy-trading company was once the seventh largest corporation in the United States.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Tue Dec 03, 2019 7:06 am ]
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Gas leak in Bhopal, India
On this day in 1984, a gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, spread over a populated area, resulting ultimately in 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and leaving some half million survivors with chronic medical ailments.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed Dec 04, 2019 5:38 am ]
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Ivan the Terrible proclaimed grand prince of Moscow
On this day in 1533, the three-year-old who became Ivan the Terrible was proclaimed grand prince of Moscow upon the death of his father, Grand Prince Vasily III, with his mother ruling in Ivan's name until her death in 1538.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:50 am ]
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Witchcraft condemned by Pope Innocent VIII
Innocent VIII condemned witchcraft this day in 1484 via papal bull, and subsequently he dispatched inquisitors to Germany to try witches and persecuted a chief exponent of Renaissance Platonism, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:54 am ]
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Irish Free State established
The British government and Irish leaders Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, and others signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, establishing the Irish Free State as an independent member of the British Commonwealth this day in 1921.


https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/December-6

Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:39 am ]
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Pearl Harbor attack
On this day in 1941, Japanese bombers launched a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, precipitating the entry of the United States into World War II.


https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/December-7

Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sun Dec 08, 2019 7:49 am ]
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John Lennon fatally shot by deranged fan
On this day in 1980, British musician John Lennon—who rose to fame with the Beatles and had a successful solo career—was fatally shot by Mark David Chapman in New York City, causing a global outpouring of grief.


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Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:51 am ]
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Encyclopædia Britannica first published
The first part of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest continuously published and revised work in the English language, was published and advertised for sale in Edinburgh on this day in 1768.


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