Category: Today in history
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May 17, 1954: Brown vs. Board Of Education reaches verdict

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Pablo Escobar: The rise and fall of the world’s most notorious druglord

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March 30, 1822: The Florida Territory is created

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March 21, 1946: Los Angeles Rams sign civil rights trailblazer Kenny Washington

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Is Elizabeth of York the basis for Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones?

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Katherine Johnson was a hidden genius

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December 12, 1915: Frank Sinatra’s 103rd birthday

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December 9, 1531: The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego

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Potosi, the sunken town, re-emerges from the depths

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During World War II D.C. experiences worst flood ever

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Jesse James robbed Alexander Mitchell and Co. bank

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Robert The Bruce: from outlaw king to Netflix star

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The Can-can’s debute in Paris

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The Battle of Ramree island: Worst crocodile disaster in history

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106-year-old Union soldier honored as last surviving Civil War combatant

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September 10th, 1509: Earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Constantinople

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September 9th 1956: Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show

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NASA’s ‘hidden figure’ Katherine Johnson turns 100

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September 7th, 1911: French poet arrested for stealing Mona Lisa from Louvre

Seven key facts about Custer’s Last Stand that history sometimes forgets

5 of the Revolutionary War’s most brutal battles

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How early settlers crossed the Bering Strait land bridge

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Did Stanley Kubrick ruin ‘A Clockwork Orange’?

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Famous last words of influential people

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15 lies your history teacher told you (and the truth behind them)

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Successes and failures of the Vietnam War

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Meet Jeanne Calment, the woman who lived to be 122 years old

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The brutal execution of the Romanov family

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One Ethiopian emperor sparked the Rastafarian movement

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Explaining northern Italy’s conscription age

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May 17, 1954: Brown vs. Board Of Education reaches verdict

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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may not have been so Babylonian after all

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The 10 richest presidents in U.S. history

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is richest musician in the world

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The fascinating history of optical illusions

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Powerful historical photos that will absolutely take your breath away

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The story of migration at Ellis Island

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The crazy childless woman who created Mother’s Day

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30 famous mugshots you’ve never seen before

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Historical figures who had bizarre animals as pets

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The tragedies that forged the 27 Club

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Nike: a brief history of the Swoosh

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Heartwarming war photos guaranteed to make you smile

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