On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
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1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account. | ||||||||
1705 Queen Anne of England knights scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. | ||||||||
1746 Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart. | ||||||||
1900 US Post Office issues its first stamp booklets, containing 12, 24, or 48 two-cent stamps. | ||||||||
1917 Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Theses" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4]. | ||||||||
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris. | ||||||||
2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, admitting 10 new member states to the European Union. | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
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Madame Tussaud's Bloody Background | ||||||||
Madame Tussaud, famous for her waxworks, perfected her art in the grimmest of 'schools' – the French Revolution - where she made models of guillotined heads. | ||||||||
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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