Notices tagged with history, page 3
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76 years ago: art historian Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt died, "He is regarded as the founder of art historical research into the #Baroque" and "co-founder and president of the Bund Deutscher Architekten ('association of German architects')" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Gurlitt_%28art_historian%29 !history
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6 years ago: chairman of the Colombian military #junta government, 98-year old Gabriel París #Gordillo, died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Par%C3%ADs_Gordillo !history
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21 years ago: first commit to #NetBSD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbsd !history
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24 years ago: #US invasion of #Panama, "Safeguarding the lives of ... citizens in ... threatened the lives of the approximately 35,000 U.S. citizens living there", "Protesters echoed claims that #3,000 people were #killed as a result of U.S. military action." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama#United_States.27_justification_for_the_invasion !history
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11 years ago in !history: invasion of #Iraq (by an invasion force led by the #US), "the Center for Public Integrity alleges that the #Bush administration made a total of #935 #false statements between 2001 and 2003 about Iraq's alleged threat to the US" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war_2 #tomorrow
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153 years ago: the February Patent: the #constitution of the #Austrian Empire was promulgated in the form of letters patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Patent !history
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21 years ago: the WTC #bombing occurred: a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing !history
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638 years ago: the 'Boese #Fasnacht': people of the Duke of Austria, Leopold III, were #killed in Basel and the city gets punished and gets under the influence of the House of #Habsburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_III,_Duke_of_Austria !history
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53 years ago: 51-year old King of #Morocco, Mohammed V, died. The "U.S. Ambassador Charles W. Yost saw the King hours before his death and was among those who #suspected that the King's son, 31-year old Hassan II, had a hand in his father's #sudden death." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_V_of_Morocco !history
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143 years ago: the Treaty of Versailles was signed (which ended the Franco-Prussian War) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles_%281871%29 !history
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383 years ago: John George I, Elector of Saxony, initiated a conference in Leipzig to discuss ending the "Thirty Years' War" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_I,_Elector_of_Saxony !history
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199 years ago: Napoléon #Bonaparte left Elba to boss around again ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon !history
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78 years ago: #二・二六事件 the February 26 Incident, an attempted coup d'état organized by a group of young IJA (Imperial #Japanese Army) officers, but they surrendered 4 days later already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26_Incident !history
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24 years ago: the presidential #election in #Nicaragua took place, where Violeta Barrios de #Chamorro (from #UNO, Unión Nacional Opositora) won 55% of the popular vote, Daniel Ortega (FSLN, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) 41% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Opposition_Union !history
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91 years ago: Moroccan auxiliary forces (of the #French army) occupied the 'Free State Bottleneck' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Bottleneck !history
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45 years ago: 18-year old Czech student Jan #Zajíc committed suicide by #self-immolation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Zaj%C3%ADc !history
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97 years ago: the RMS Laconia was #torpedoed by a submarine of the Imperial #German Navy leading to 12 deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Laconia_%281911%29 !history
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42 years ago: Germany paid $5 mio to end the #kidnapping of a plane to Aden (in Yemen) !history
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20 years ago in Hebron: 'Cave of the Patriarchs #massacre', 37-year old Goldstein opened fire on unarmed Palestinian muslims #praying inside the Ibrahim Mosque, 29 male worshippers dead and 125 were wounded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Patriarchs_massacre !history
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28 years ago: the 10th president of the #Philippines, 68-year old Ferdinand #Marcos, fled after the 'People Power #Revolution' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution !history
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444 years ago: 66-year old #Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis ('reigning on high') declaring 36-year old '#Elizabeth I of England, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime' to be a heretic and releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her, even when they had 'sworn oaths to her', and #excommunicating any that obeyed her orders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnans_in_Excelsis !history
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58 years ago: Ники́та Серге́евич #Хрущёв (Nikita #Khrushchev) criticizes the reign of deceased general secretary and premier Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович #Ста́лин (Joseph #Stalin) in his speech ('On the cult of personality and its consequences') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences !history
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66 years ago: #Czechoslovak coup d'état: 64-year old Edvard #Beneš (fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention) "capitulated"; he accepted the #resignations of the non-Communist ministers and appointed a new government in accordance with #KSČ (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) demands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat !history
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22 years ago in #Azerbaijan: Khojaly #massacre: hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians were killed by #Armenian (troups). The death toll provided by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 83 children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_Massacre !history
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34 years ago in Suriname: Bouterse, Horb and 14 other sergeants #overthrew the Henck Arron government with a violent #coup d'état, which is now known as the 'Sergeants Coup' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Surinamese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat !history
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158 years ago: Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia meet in Paris and it took them over 1 month to sign the 'Treaty of Paris' which settled the #Crimean War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281856%29 !history cc @question
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301 years ago: Frederick William I became King in #Prussia (and would be for 27 years until his death) and his 1st official act was to #nullify the etat of his kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_I_of_Prussia !history
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183 years ago: the battle of Olszynka Grochowska: "In the course of a day-long struggle the #Russians lost, at least #9500 killed and wounded, and were forced to abandon their plans of capturing Warsaw and thus ending the #Polish uprising with one blow. Polish losses were slightly fewer, but also significant: between #6900 and 7300 dead and wounded." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Olszynka_Grochowska !history
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380 years ago: the 'Mordnacht von Eger': after #Wallenstein's arrival at Cheb, Scottish and Irish officers in his force #assassinated him and count Trčka, Christian von Ilow, count Kinsky and cavalry captain Neumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_von_Wallenstein#Treachery_and_death !history
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2 years ago: George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in Florida http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin !history
