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On This Day In History – April 7, 1945
April 7, 1945 – The Japanese battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, is sunk on her way to Okinawa Yamato was…
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On This Day In History – April 6, 1896
April 6, 1896, In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor…
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On This Day In History – April 5, 1951
On April 5, 1951, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death by electric chair. The couple was accused of passing information about nuclear weapons on…
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On This Day In History – April 4, 1949
On April 4, 1949, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the foreign ministers of Canada, and 10 Western European nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland,…
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On April 1, 1945, after suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops, under the command of Lieutenant…
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In 1969, Taylor Camp, a hippie colony, was established in Hawaii taking in anyone who wanted to escape the craziness of the period and reaching about…
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Marilyn Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald at the the Mocambo. A popular Hollywood night club at the time. In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to…
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Execution by cannon in Iran, 1890s George Carter Stent described the process as follows: “The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part…
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"Let’s finish the Fascist invaders in their lair!" – Viktor Ivanov, 1945
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This photo—taken at the turn of the century—shows Jack Daniel (in the white hat) seated next to George Green, the son of Nathan “Nearest” Green who…