On this day in
30 BC, the infamous
Cleopatra VII Philopator, last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
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On this day in 1950, the Bloody Gulch Massacre takes place during the Korean Conflict. North Korean soldiers gun down dozens of American Prisoners of War.
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On this day in
1952, 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, in a wave of anti-Semitic violence known as The Night of the Murdered Poets.
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On this day in
1953, the Soviet Union test-detonates their so-called
Layer Cake Bomb - a 400-kiloton device fueled by layers of uranium and lithium deuteride - in Kazakhstan. In response, the Pentagon cranks things up a notch by creating both a
Bundt Cake Bomb and an
Apple Brown Betty Bomb, both of which are devastatingly powerful... and irresistibly scrumptious!
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On this day in
1964, South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
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On this day in
1981, the IBM Personal Computer (PC) is released.
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On this day in
1992, Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement, more popularly known as
NAFTA.
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On this day in
2000, The Oscar class submarine
K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the bottom of the Barents Sea during a mysterious military exercise. The cause of the sinking remains unknown.
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