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On This Day: 1944 – Exercise Tiger Tragedy: E-boats Attack, 946 Killed
On This Day: 1941 – Gudovac Massacre: Start of Ustaše Genocide
On This Day: 1996 – Port Arthur Massacre Shocks Australia
On This Day: 1986 – Chernobyl's Fallout: Sweden Sounds the Alarm
On This Day: 1952 – Japan Regains Sovereignty with San Francisco Treaty
On This Day: 1945 – Mussolini Executed by Italian Resistance
On This Day: 2018 – Koreas Declare End to Conflict in Panmunjom
On This Day: 1986 – Chernobyl Evacuation Begins: Pripyat Emptied
On This Day: 1941 – Nazis Occupy Athens in WWII
On This Day: 1521 – Magellan Killed in Battle of Mactan, Philippines
On This Day: 711 – Moors Invade Spain, Beginning Al-Andalus Era
On This Day: 1478 – Pazzi Conspiracy: Medici Bloodshed in Florence
On This Day: 1933 – The Gestapo is Born: Nazi Germany's Secret Police
On This Day: 1865 – Booth, Lincoln's Assassin, Killed in Virginia
On This Day: 1937 – Guernica Bombed: A Spanish Civil War Tragedy
On This Day: 1994 – South Africa's First Multiracial Election & Mandela's Victory
On This Day: 1986 – Chernobyl Disaster: A Nuclear Catastrophe
On This Day: 1945 – Elbe Day: US & Soviet Troops Meet, Splitting Nazi Germany
On This Day: 1644 – End of Ming: Chongzhen Emperor's Suicide
On This Day: 1915 – Gallipoli Campaign Begins: ANZACs Land in WWI
On This Day: 1945 – UN Founding Negotiations Begin in San Francisco
On This Day: 1974 – Carnation Revolution Ends Portuguese Dictatorship
On This Day: 1953 – DNA Double Helix Structure Revealed by Watson & Crick
On This Day: 2013 – Rana Plaza Collapse: Bangladesh Factory Tragedy
On This Day: 1990 – Hubble Telescope Launches, Changing Astronomy Forever
On This Day: 1918 – First Tank Battle! British vs. German Armor
On This Day: 1916 – Easter Rising: Irish Rebels Launch Fight for Independence
On This Day: 1915 – Armenian Genocide Begins: Arrests in Istanbul
On This Day: 1927 – Cardiff City's Historic FA Cup Win
On This Day: 1990 – Namibia Joins UN & Commonwealth After Independence
On This Day: 1891 – Blanco Encalada Sunk, Chilean Civil War Intensifies
On This Day: 1920 – Turkey's TBMM Founded, Sultan's Rule Denounced
On This Day: 1985 – New Coke Debuts, Then Fails Fast. Coca-Cola's Epic Flop!
On This Day: 1946 – Roxas Elected Last Commonwealth President
On This Day: 2016 – Paris Agreement Signed, A Landmark Climate Deal
On This Day: 1993 – Stephen Lawrence Murdered, Sparking Racial Justice Fight
On This Day: 1970 – Earth Day Launches a Global Movement
On This Day: 1945 – Sachsenhausen Liberated by Red Army
On This Day: 1944 – Allies Land in Hollandia, New Guinea
On This Day: 1915 – Chlorine Gas Unleashed: A Dark Turn in WWI
On This Day: 2014 – Flint Water Crisis Begins: A City Poisoned
On This Day: 1975 – Saigon Falls, Thiệu Flees: End of an Era
On This Day: 1918 – The Red Baron's Last Flight
On This Day: 1782 – Bangkok Founded: A New Capital Rises in Siam
On This Day: 1526 – Babur Defeats Lodi, Mughal Empire Begins
On This Day: 753 BC – Romulus Founds Rome (Traditional Date)
On This Day: 2021 – Chauvin Found Guilty in George Floyd Murder
On This Day: 2010 – Deepwater Horizon Explosion: Gulf Oil Spill Begins
On This Day: 1999 – Columbine High School Massacre Devastates US
On This Day: 1946 – League of Nations Ends, UN Takes Over
On This Day: 1792 – France Declares War, Revolution Begins!
On This Day: 2021 - Ingenuity Flies! First Powered Flight on Mars
On This Day: 2005 – Ratzinger Elected Pope Benedict XVI
On This Day: 1995 – Oklahoma City Bombing Kills 168
On This Day: 1993 – Waco Siege Ends in Flames, 76 Dead
On This Day: 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
On This Day: 1775 – Lexington & Concord: Revolution Begins!
On This Day: 2019 - Mueller Report Released to the Public
On This Day: 1946 – ICJ Holds First Meeting in The Hague
On This Day: 1942 – Doolittle Raid Bombs Japan, Boosting Allied Morale
On This Day: 1906 – San Francisco Devastated by Earthquake & Fire
On This Day: 1775 – Revere's Ride & British Advance Spark Revolution
On This Day: 1521 – Luther Defies the Church at Worms
On This Day: 1975 – Khmer Rouge Seize Phnom Penh, Cambodian Civil War Ends
On This Day: 1961 – Bay of Pigs: Failed Invasion of Cuba
On This Day: 1895 – China Cedes Taiwan, Korea in Treaty of Shimonoseki
On This Day: 1861 – Virginia Secedes, Joins the Confederacy
On This Day: 1521 – Luther at Worms: Trial Begins, Demands Time
On This Day: 1492 – Columbus's Voyage Contract Signed!
On This Day: 2007 – Virginia Tech Shooting: Tragedy at Blacksburg
On This Day: 1947 – "Cold War" Term Coined by Baruch
On This Day: 1947 – Texas City Disaster: Explosion Devastates Port
On This Day: 1945 – Red Army Launches Final Assault on Berlin
On This Day: 1941 – Ustaše Regime Established in Croatia by Axis
On This Day: 1917 – Lenin Returns, Fueling the Russian Revolution
On This Day: 2019 – Notre-Dame Fire Shocks the World
On This Day: 1989 – Hillsborough: 97 Lives Lost in FA Cup Tragedy
On This Day: 1947 – Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball's Color Barrier
On This Day: 1945 – Bergen-Belsen Liberated: Hope Amidst Horror
On This Day: 1912 – Titanic Sinks: A Tragedy in the Atlantic
On This Day: 1865 – Lincoln Dies, Johnson Becomes President
On This Day: 2014 – Boko Haram Kidnaps 276 Chibok Schoolgirls
On This Day: 1988 – Soviets Agree to Afghanistan Withdrawal
On This Day: 1935 – Black Sunday Dust Storm Devastates the Plains
On This Day: 1912 – Titanic Hits Iceberg, Doomed Voyage Begins
On This Day: 1865 – Lincoln Shot at Ford's Theatre
On This Day: 966 – Mieszko I's Baptism: Poland's Christian Foundation
On This Day: 1970 – Apollo 13: Houston, We've Had a Problem
On This Day: 1943 – Katyn Massacre Unveiled, Soviets Deny Responsibility
On This Day: 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Shocks India
On This Day: 1861 – Fort Sumter Falls, Civil War Begins
On This Day: 1829 – Catholic Emancipation: UK Catholics Gain Rights
On This Day: 1945 – FDR Dies; Truman Becomes President
On This Day: 1955 – Salk Polio Vaccine Declared Safe & Effective
On This Day: 1981 – Columbia, The First Space Shuttle Launch
