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April 18th 1521 – Diet of Worms. This was an assembly presided over by the Holy Roman Empire that took place in the town of Worms. Martin Luther…
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April 12th 1204 - Constantinople sacked. Crusaders from the 4th Crusade laid siege, captured and looted a Christian city. The original intent of the 4th…
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April 7th 1739 - Dick Turpin hung for horse stealing. Turpin was a famous outlaw in England, much like Jesse James in America or Ned Kelly in Australia…
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April 2nd The Moment I had just returned from south Florida after taking a ten-day respite from winter’s bite. I was at a small family owned motel on…
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March 27th 1964 – The Great Alaskan Earthquake. On Good Friday at 5:36 PM an earthquake struck the Prince William Sound area of Alaska. With a magnitude…
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March 21st “Hootenanny” – An immensely popular folk music TV show that aired for two seasons in 1963 and 1964. It became controversial when it…
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March 18th 1766 - Repeal of the Stamp Act. Passed a year earlier by the English Parliament, the law immediately raised the ire of the colonists in…
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March 13th 1947 - Academy Awards. “The Best Years of Our Lives” won the Oscar for the Best Picture. The story centered around three combat veterans…
Mar 13
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March 10th 241 BC – Battle of Aegates Islands. This was the final naval battle between Carthage and the Roman Empire during the 1st Punic War. The two…
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March 6th 1831 – Edgar Allan Poe kicked out of West Point Military Academy. The troubled young man left home due to a conflict with his foster father…
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February 29th As expected, I didn’t have a whole of history to draw from today. 1948 - Cairo-Haifa train bombed. During the Palestinian War a Jewish…
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February 25th 1941 – February strike in Amsterdam. Appalled by the German occupiers’ persecution of Dutch Jews, first the city’s tram drivers went on…
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