On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
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845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. | ||||||||
1901 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first parliamentary election. | ||||||||
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near the South Pole, makes the last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far". | ||||||||
1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria. | ||||||||
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1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statuesburied to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang. | ||||||||
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 and above the 10,000 mark for the first time in its history. | ||||||||
2022 In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
Also Georges Seurat. | ||||||||
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Astor, The First Multi-Millionaire Businessman | ||||||||
John Jacob Astor made a staggering fortune by monopolizing the American fur trade, but his methods – ruthless and sometimes illegal – have drawn criticism. | ||||||||
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Friday, March 29, 2024
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