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1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in

1696 Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (13 March 1696 – 8 August 1788), was a

Coca-Cola was initially only sold by the glass from soda fountains because of a belief in the health properties of

Operation Market Time was the United States Navy and South Vietnam’s successful effort begun in 1965 to stop the flow

1647 Victor-Maurice de Broglie was born in the De Broglie house, a noble family originally from Piedmont. He was the

According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where

1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu.

1738 Benjamin Tupper (March 11, 1738 – June 7, 1792)[1] was a soldier in the French and Indian War, and

Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958)[1] was an American military aviator best known for his leadership