On This Day in History |
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1250 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France captured. |
1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots. |
 | San Francisco Pony Express to New York cover |
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1860 First Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California. |
 | British soldiers discover the body of Emperor Tewodros II after he committed suicide following the Battle of Magdala |
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1868 Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide. |
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here", as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon. |
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Also Butch Cassidy, Samuel Beckett and Stanislaw Ulam. |
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Few can fail to be moved by Handel's Messiah oratorio, culminating in the Hallelujah Chorus. It was even said to have brought a king to his feet. |
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