On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
1490 First dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah", a code of Jewish religious law is published. | ||||||||
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favor of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war. | ||||||||
1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky. | ||||||||
1933 German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers. | ||||||||
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1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II | ||||||||
2019 Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State "caliphate". | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
Also Peter the Cruel, Julius III and Nicolas Fouquet. | ||||||||
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Tsar Goes a Step Too Far | ||||||||
For over 300 years Russia’s famous Romanov family possessed fabulous wealth and power, but it wasn’t enough to keep them out of reach of assassins. | ||||||||
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Saturday, March 23, 2024
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