On This Day in History |
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 | 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother?' emblem used by some abolitionists determined to end the slave trade in the British Empire |
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1789 William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice. |
1940 Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France begins with German forces crossing the Muese River. |
1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender. |
2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. |
2008 Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000, injuring 374,643 and leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people. |
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Also Katharine Hepburn, Burt Bacharach and Julius Rosenberg. |
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Born in Spain, married in Cyprus, died in France, this wife of a warrior king was never to set foot in the land where she was hailed as Queen. |
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