On This Day in History |
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1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years. |
1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes. |
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen |
1948 Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in the garden of the New Delhi home he was visiting by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse. |
 | Churchill's cortege in London during the funeral |
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1965 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest-ever state funeral. |
1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'. |
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Also Charles I, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Orville Wright. |
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Two lovers, a pact, then tragedy. But what really happened at Mayerling in 1889 remains a mystery despite 130 years of rumor, speculation – and three movies. |
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