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History
Welcome To History where the past is explained.If you are looking for information about your family tree try our Genealogy section.
The legend that is Farrokh Bulsara was born in Zanzibar. We will rock you Freddie!
The son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I (The Lion Heart) was crowned in Westminster. Ironically he spent a grand total of 6 months in England!
The great fire of London started in a bakery in Pudding Lane.
The Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar. Pope Gregory XIII had calculated that we were in fact wrong with having a leap year every 4 years and instead proposed that adding a day...
The Japanese surrendered aboard the USS Missouri bringing WWII to an end....
1934, 90% of German voters approved a referendum that made Adolf Hitler
“Führer und Reichskanzler” (“leader and chancellor”)....
Germany invaded Poland, effectively starting WWII. Though it really became inevitable from around 1933 by the inaction of the west. Britain and France were infected with a Liberal pacifist desire for...
The Titanic was found. There were two skeletons on the bow with their arms outstretched :)
an assassination attempt was made on Vladimir Lenin.....Could history repeat itself soon?
Moldova got it's independence!...
1883 - Krakatoa started erupting......
1930 Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh.....
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1973 - A botched bank robbery in Stockholm resulted in a hostage situation, and, over the course of a six-day standoff, the captives formed an unlikely bond with their captor, giving rise to the term:...
1814: British forces captured Washington DC and burned down the what was later to become known as the White House....
1305... William Wallace was executed for Treason....
1987 Dirty Dancing was released, yet another great from the greatest decade.
1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, not recovered until 1913 it is said that more people came to look at the empty space than ever looked at the painting!
A man on FB who conducts tours of Belfast cemeteries posted about the mass grave of people who were killed and their remains unidentified after the 1940 bombings. Things were probably very different...
Robert De Niro was born in 1943 - Barsel note the change of avatar.
In 1977 the King died....
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