On This Day in History |
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46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus. |
1453 Turkish forces under Sultan Mehmed II lay siege to Constantinople (now İstanbul), capital of the Byzantine Empire, which falls on May 29. |
 | Jan van Riebeeck arrives in Table Bay, South Africa |
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1652 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck. |
1917 US declares war on Germany and enters World War I on the side of the Allies. |
1994 Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified. |
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Also Tammy Wynette. |
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Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood’s king is considered one of the great English monarchs. Yet he cost his country a fortune and barely lived there. |
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