On this day in
295 BC the first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War
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On this day in
43 BC,
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as
Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
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On this day in 1612, the "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
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On this day in 1692, Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
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On this day in
1839, the French government announces that
Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
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On this day in
1934, by dint of a national plebecite, the German people hand over sole executive power to
Adolph Hitler. The vote was thirty-eight million for Hitler to four million, two hundred and fifty thousand against... which means he had an approval rating of 88%.
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On this day in
1953, the CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of
Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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On this day in
1960 in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
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On this day in
1960, the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs
Belka and
Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
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On this day in the year
1972, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that a drunken, bare-naked
George Dubya Bush snorted a line of cocaine off a stripper's belly in a Tijuana tavern while his buddies beat the bartender's blind old hound dog to death with their fat fucking wallets.
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On this day in
1987, in the United Kingdom,
Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
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On this day in
1991, Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
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On this day in
1991, Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
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On this day in
2003, a car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy
Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
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On this day in
2010, Operation Iraqi Freedom comes to an end, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border into Kuwait.
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