On This Day in History |
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1519 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with 11 ships and 500 men. |
1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in London, by Nathaniel Ponder. |
1885 Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US. |
1917 First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [NS=Mar 3]. |
 | Clashes in Kiev’s Maidan Square during the 2014 revolution |
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2014 Ukraine’s “Revolution of Dignity” begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. |
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Also Alessandro Volta, André Breton, John Travolta and Dr. Dre. |
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John F. Kennedy's aides struggling to load the casket containing the slain President aboard Air Force One is an enduring image. But what happened to the casket? |
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