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On this day, September 3, 1878, SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames. 600 to 700 died. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 548
.." the Germans began the construction of Stutthof camp" Auschwitz twitter 1 irisblue Sep 2024 Sep 2024 9 851
Nazi Gustav Wagner, Sadist 'Beast' of Sobibor Camp; T4 Euthanasia Prog Killed 300K Unworthy of Life 3 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Sep 2024 5 835
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland " The Second World War began in Europe 3 irisblue Sep 2024 Sep 2024 3 878
On this day, August 30, 1910, Roger Bushell, of the "Great Escape," was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 624
'I couldn't believe it was my son who did it': boy, 4, smashes bronze age jar in Israel museum 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 853
On this day, August 29, 1944, troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 693
On this day, August 29, 1533, Pizarro Executed Atahuallpa, Last Emperor of the Incas. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 640
Remains of the ancient Roman city under the modern road in Verona, close to Porta Leoni, Italy. 0 elleng Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 44289
On this date 26 August 1905 Rudolph von Mayer was born- from @Auschwitz twitter 0 irisblue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 42008
On August 25, 1944, Paris was liberated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 527
Non-Fiction I'm reading: The Dragon from Chicago 2 bucolic_frolic Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 714
Aug 19, 1934 Hitler Becomes President of Germany, Unlimited Power Dictator, Turning Pt World History 🇩🇪 7 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 902
50 years ago: CBS News report from Vietnam sparked U.S. outrage 3 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 13 868
On this day, August 23, 1944, the deadliest aircraft accident to occur in Britain during World War II occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 684
On this day, August 23, 1973, the bank robbery that led to the Stockholm syndrome started. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 529
On this day, August 22, 1961, Ida Siekmann became the first person to die at the Berlin Wall. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 529
On this day, August 21, 2015, there was an attack on board an Amsterdam-to-Paris Thalys train. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 581
On this day, August 20, 1858, Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 561
On this day, August 20, 1968, "Operation Danube," the invasion of Czechoslovakia, began. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 543
On this day, August 20, Finnish architects Eliel Saarinen (1873) and Eero Saarinen (1910) were born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 603
Fascism: Is Italy's Government Allowing The Past To Live On? BBC News 0 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 820
On August 19, 2002, 127 people died when a Russian Mil Mi-26 was shot down in the deadliest helicopter crash in history. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 597
On this day, August 19, 1942, the disastrous Allied amphibious attack Operation Jubilee, or the Dieppe Raid, occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 591
On August 18, 1977, Steve Biko was arrested. He never saw another day of freedom. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 766
On August 17, 1962, Peter Fechter was killed trying to get over the Berlin Wall. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 479
I find this way cool. Recent and not so recent historical finds 0 mitch96 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 791
Lost wreck of WW1 warship found in 'remarkable' condition 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 781
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL Remembering the Iraq War Vote PBS 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 591
On this day, August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito broadcast his declaration of surrender. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 484

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On this day, August 15, 1961, E. German border guard Conrad Schumann leaped into the French Sector of West Berlin. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 609
WW2 Italian Campaign 1943-45; End Fascist Rule, Dictator Mussolini 'Il Duce' Executed, April 28 1945 4 appalachiablue Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 810
On this day, August 14, 1961, East Berliners awoke to see a wall going up between them and W. Berlin. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 587
Obama, Netanyahu bash each other's Iran plans 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 1 776
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Ep. 6: 'Masks of Eternity' 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 593
On this day, August 12, 1944, German troops ended the week-long Wola massacre. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 627
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Ep. 5: 'Love and the Goddess' 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 564
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Ep. 4: 'Sacrifice and Bliss' 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 587
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Ep. 3: 'The First Storytellers' 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 574
Operation Beluga 0 Bayard Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 718
The Paradox of Being a Good Person - George Orwell's Warning to the World 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 1059
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Ep. 2: 'The Message of the Myth' 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 2 595
Carl Jung: Face to Face - 1959 Interview (Colorized & Remastered) 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 809
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Ep. 1: 'The Hero's Adventure' 3 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 6 710
On this day, August 5, 2010, the 2010 Copiapo mining accident occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 0 513
On this day, August 4, 1944, Anne Frank, her family, and four others were discovered by the Gestapo, following a tip. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2024 Aug 2024 3 647
The phenomenon Donald Trump - did the media cause it? Ulrik Haagerup TEDxLinz 7 Uncle Joe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 9 973
1st Genocide 20th C: Herero, Nama Conc Camps 1904-08, German Empire SW Africa, Racism; Ethnic Cleansing 0 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 575
On July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 697
On July 25, 2019, heat records were set in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 458
On this day, July 25, 1920, Rosalind Franklin was born. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 0 530
On this day, July 25, 1943, the Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 666
On this day, July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 667
On this day, July 17, 1918, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, was sunk. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 601
On this day, July 17, 1918, Anastasia screamed in vain. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 748
On this day, July 14, 1902, an expedition led by Agustin Lizarraga discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 755
On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper, was born. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 613
July 14, 1789 - Storming of Bastille - Paris, France 🇫🇷 Key to Bastille on Display GW Home Mount Vernon 2 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 717
WW2 Occupation - Norway Teachers Resisted, Refused To Teach Nazism - Arrested, Forced Labor Camps 7 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 7 886
'NUTS!' US Gen. McAuliffe Refused To Surrender to Germans - Bastogne, The Bulge, Dec. 22, 1944 12 appalachiablue Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 1676

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'Swing Kids' In Nazi Germany, Jazz Music Loving, Non-Conformist Youth 1930s, 1940s 7 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Jul 2024 9 2594
On this day, July 6, 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 536
On this day, July 3, 1938, LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard set the world speed record for a steam locomotive. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 459
On June 24, 1954, de Havilland Comet airframe G-ALYU burst open during water tank testing. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 459
On this day, June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 544
On June 27, 1980, 81 people died when Itavia Flight 870 crashed into the sea en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 338
On June 27, 1988, 56 people died in the Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 312
Noam Chomsky - The Propaganda Model 0 Uncle Joe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 7 641
(2) Don't Give Me Any Flak! Iconic German 88mm Anti-Aircraft, Anti-Tank 'Flak' Gun, WWII 5 appalachiablue Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 865
A Roman beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius is open to the public for the first time 0 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 11 686
On this day, June 19, 1876, British steam locomotive designer Sir Nigel Gresley was born. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 786
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, D-Day Prayer, June 6, 1944 - The National WWII Memorial 🇺🇸 5 appalachiablue Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 907
On this day, June 18, 1972, the deadliest air accident (as opposed to acts of terrorism) in the United Kingdom occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 0 566
On this day, June 18, 1940, Winston Churchill delivered his "This was their finest hour" speech. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 5 613
WW2, D-Day Speech, General Eisenhower, June 6, 1944 -'The Light of Dawn' D-Day Film 1 appalachiablue Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 734
The Gadget That Changed How We See The World Cell BBC Earth Science 0 Uncle Joe Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 668
On this day, June 10, 1944, six hundred forty-two men, women, and children were massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France. 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 6 740
On this day, June 10, 1944, German troops massacred 228 men, women and children in Distomo, Boeotia, Greece. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 2 764
On this day, June 10, 1942, Lidice, Czechoslovakia, was destroyed in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 Jun 2024 4 524
The dramatic story of Pointe du Hoc, the backdrop to Biden's D-Day anniversary speech 2 sl8 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 33 1441
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