On This Day in History |
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1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. |
 | The panicked scene at the New York Stock Exchange on the infamous morning of Friday, 5 May, 1893 |
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1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange. |
1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa. |
1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers. |
1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam. |
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building. |
1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26-year-old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in Prison Maze. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.. |
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Also Tammy Wynette and Craig David (43). |
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Only a man could do it, Nellie Bly was told about her plan to go round the world in less than 80 days. It was a red rag to a bull and she soon achieved the feat |
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