Tag: On This Day

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On this day…in 1881

On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at

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On this day…1968

On this day in 1968,  the Western Australian town of Meckering suffers an earthquake. At 10:59am on 14 October 1968,

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On This Day…in 1917

Mata Hari, the archetype of the seductive female spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing squad at

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On This Day…in 1947

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager,

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On This Day…in 1066

King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of

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On This Day…in 1944

On this day in 1944, German Gen. Erwin Rommel, nicknamed “the Desert Fox,” is given the option of facing

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On This Day…in 1915

British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape from

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On This Day…in 2002

Don’t know why this is being put in because, of course, we’ll never forget what happened on this day

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On This Day…in 1974

German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, dies at the age of 66. A

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On This Day…

On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications

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