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1987
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President
#RonaldReagan
announces the end of hostilities with Peoples Republic of
#NewZealand
, state created by Labour Party PM David Lange declaring his country to be nuclear-free
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about 23 hours ago
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Franz Ferdinand had lived to regret surviving the assassination attempt in Sarajevo?Matthias Church in Budapest 1916
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Coronation of Emperor Franz II of Austria accepting the Crown of Saint Stephen
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about 23 hours ago
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County Wexford - 23rd June, 1798
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English-born Founding Father of America Thomas Paine executed for treason after Battle of Vinegar Hill
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1 day ago
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the Soviet Union and Japan allied against American influence in Far East? 1944
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senior Japanese officers led by Prince Fumimaro Konoe joined the celebrations at Red Square victory parade in Moscow
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2 days ago
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#Galileo
had paid more attention to the dim star? 1612
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in
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Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer philosopher
#GalileoGalilei
discovered a new planet
#planetneptune
#neptune
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3 days ago
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Romanovs evacuated on British war-ship sent by cousin
#KingGeorgeV
1917
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in
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Tsar Nicholas II & Imperial Household arrive safely in Russian North America
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3 days ago
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1793
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Thomas Paine's principled opposition to the guillotine prevailed, halting the Terror and steering the French Revolution toward a constitutional republic grounded in mercy rather than fear
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3 days ago
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Atomic D-Day Ends the War Early, Forcing a Fragile Peace and Freezing Stalin Short of Europe
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4 days ago
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hard-headed realist guided Napoleon III away from his foreign policy disasters? Colmar - Haut-Rhin, Alsace- 1st April, 1815
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in
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Second French Empire's greatest Minister of State, Othon de Bismarck
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5 days ago
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"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable"
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the Continental Army had been defeated at Trenton? 1776
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Washington's Disaster at Trenton
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5 days ago
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Morisco corsairs from a fortified Atlantic port had established a Muslim-majority republic in the Caribbean during the 17th century, reshaping colonial competition and religious dynamics in the New World?
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6 days ago
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Christianity had not been outlawed in Japan? Kirishitani - 1999
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Hideko Cardinal Tokugawa of Kyoto presided over a Christmas celebration of nearly one million Japanese Catholics
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6 days ago
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a Second Christmas Truce had enabled the Kaiser to demand an armistice? 1915
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Second Christmas Truce Takes Hold
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6 days ago
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1945
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in
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Stalin purged key leadership figures in the Chinese Communist Party, declaring the new Manchurian SSR on the same day that the Triumvirate of Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong & Zhu De were executed
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7 days ago
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"Honest" Jack Lynch ended the Troubles (with the help of Ambassador John F. Kennedy)? Dublin 13 August 1969
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"The Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse"
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7 days ago
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1943
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in
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Field Marshall
#BernardMontgomery
Chosen As Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord, the forthcoming Invasion of Normandy
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7 days ago
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Silver Beatles had failed to catch fire? muses
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1972
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in
#alternatehistory
international superstar Pete Best makes a controversial decision to perform for American troops fighting in Vietnam
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7 days ago
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the Americas were ruled by a Governing Council of the Organization of American States (OAS)? muses the late, great Scott Palter
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8 days ago
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1944
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Gen. Eisenhower decorated Private Eddie Slovik with a Purple Heart recommending him for a Medal of Honor. A young thief in civilian life, had been on the verge of desertion
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8 days ago
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Hague, 1914
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in
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Neutral Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Edward Grey leads Christmas Truce negotiations warning that "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"
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8 days ago
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Britain kept American Colonies, lose Canada
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1745
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Loyalist President
#JohnJay
who worked with South Carolinian Edward Rutledge turning his Continental Congress colleagues from independence
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8 days ago
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Brest-Litovsk 1917
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in
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Soviet representatives met Central Powers ceasefire pre-conditions by releasing the German Princesses in the Romanov Royal Family to members of the humanitarian Red Cross Network
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10 days ago
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earlier Soviet entry into the Pacific War? Potsdam, Berlin's Soviet occupation zone 26th July, 1945
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Three Party Allied Agreement Signals Immediate Soviet Entry into the Pacific War
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10 days ago
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Ivan the Terrified? 1552
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in
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the future Queen, Princess Elizabeth Tudor, accepted a proposal of marriage from the Tsar of All Russia Ivan IV Vasilyevich
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11 days ago
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1976 all of Illinois mourned as the illustrious chairman of the state's Communist Party, Comrade Richard Daley, died in Chicago. He built the most successful party organization in the Soviet States of America.
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11 days ago
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Business Plot unravels? 1936
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in
#alternatehistory
Socialist President Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr. abolished the Office of Secretary of General Affairs, an all powerful position held by Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler
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11 days ago
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what if anti-drugs strike on the Panama Canal? 1989
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Canal Sabotage as Panama Invasion Commences
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11 days ago
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Chairman Mao died before 1956 & his successor was much more understanding of Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin? 25th February, 1956
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Chinese Applause Signals Unity as Khrushchev Breaks with Stalin
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11 days ago
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early
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1914
#OnThisDay
#Federal
#RepublicofAustralia
Says No to
#WW1
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12 days ago
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MacArthur had received intelligence about the Chinese army before invading North Korea? 10th October, 1950
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General MacArthur Halts Advance as U.N. Forces Secure Korea, China Steps Back from War
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12 days ago
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Second Puno-Roman War
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216 B.C.
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in
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the great Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca Captures Rome
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12 days ago
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1897
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Russo-Spanish war breaks out after Japan closes the Sea Otter Route and Nicholas pursues Peter the Great's century-long quest for Warm Water Ports by seizing Guam, and the Philippine islands
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13 days ago
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Crown unmade at Runnymede, 1215
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King John formally compelled to abdicate in the name of "the realm itself" in favour of "the Governance", a permanent ruling committee of barons and clergy
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13 days ago
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Jeff Provine explores the post-WW2 consequences of the Gray Devil's Grand Bargain to harvest human experimental samples in exchange for mind control technology
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14 days ago
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Pompey had won Caesar's civil war? 7th June, 48 BCE
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Pompey the Great's famous victory at Epirus
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14 days ago
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1663
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in
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incomparable Southwest African ruler Great Nzinga. She fought for the independence of her kingdoms against the Portuguese and rapid growth in the African slave trade
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14 days ago
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no sakoku policy? Tokugawa shogunate forces defeated with cannons on Dutch vessel de Ryp? Hara Castle - 1637
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Shimabara Rebellion Sparks Opening of Nippon
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14 days ago
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Washington & co. fought for the Crown in a Whig Revolution? 1796
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leading Whigs called for Kings abdication & installation of his son as a constitutional monarch with sharply limited powers
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15 days ago
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AmRev created two nations split along Mason-Dixon line essentially same East Coast territory as the Union & the Confederacy c.1861? May 12th 1784
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Treaty of Paris effective
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16 days ago
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1920
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future American State of West Alaska came into existence when Kamchatka, 1,250-km-long (777 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East, was leased to the US Government for a 60-year period
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17 days ago
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the Watching Committee had managed retreat from Empire? Lancaster House - 1965
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with the break-up of the Central African Federation, the White Commonwealth arose from the bones of the British Empire
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17 days ago
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Francis Drake's expedition had been a disaster? 1577
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Ill-fated Drake Expedition Leaves England
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18 days ago
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Cecilienhof Palace, Berlin - 19th July 1945
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the alien request for harvesting human experimental samples in exchange for mind control technology was given serious consideration by the Big Three leaders
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18 days ago
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early Soviet Victory in the Winter War? 1939
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Battle of Tolvajarvi Becomes Finnish Rout
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19 days ago
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1936
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at the accession meeting of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, George VI announced he was to make his elder brother His Royal Highness The Emperor of India
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19 days ago
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the state militia and not the Continental Army had won the revolutionary war for the Patriots? 1775
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the Continental Congress' attempt to create a national army had failed
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19 days ago
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1953
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President Eisenhower gave a speech before the U.N. about the new Atom Bombs For Peace program the U.S.A. is opening up for itself and all its allies and friendly neutral powers
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20 days ago
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1936
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after a scandalous summer
#EdwardVIII
received Crown in Westminster Abbey swearing to uphold the laws of England, Scotland, & Empire as well as serve as Defender of the Faith
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20 days ago
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a fictionalised meeting between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev defuses the Sino-Soviet Split? 1964
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Novosibirsk Accord shocks the Free World
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20 days ago
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Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev had defused the Sino-Soviet Split? 1964
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Novosibirsk Accord shocks the Free World - Soviets and Chinese had agreed to share leadership of the Communist bloc
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20 days ago
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