Notices tagged with history, page 3
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158 years ago: Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia meet in Paris and it took them over 1 month to sign the 'Treaty of Paris' which settled the #Crimean War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281856%29 !history cc @question
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301 years ago: Frederick William I became King in #Prussia (and would be for 27 years until his death) and his 1st official act was to #nullify the etat of his kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_I_of_Prussia !history
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183 years ago: the battle of Olszynka Grochowska: "In the course of a day-long struggle the #Russians lost, at least #9500 killed and wounded, and were forced to abandon their plans of capturing Warsaw and thus ending the #Polish uprising with one blow. Polish losses were slightly fewer, but also significant: between #6900 and 7300 dead and wounded." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Olszynka_Grochowska !history
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380 years ago: the 'Mordnacht von Eger': after #Wallenstein's arrival at Cheb, Scottish and Irish officers in his force #assassinated him and count Trčka, Christian von Ilow, count Kinsky and cavalry captain Neumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_von_Wallenstein#Treachery_and_death !history
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2 years ago: George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in Florida http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin !history
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1 year ago, inappropriate '#sexual conduct': #cardinal Keith O'Brien resigned from governance of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_O'Brien !history
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4 years ago in !history: Ві́ктор Фе́дорович Януко́вич (Viktor #Yanukovych) took office as 4th president of #Ukraine ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych
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What comes to your mind when you think about Ludwig von #Bertalanffy and his "systems understanding in science of !history" where he talks about the 3 aspects of most general indicators of human history are: continuous progress, cycles with structural similarities and existentialist, nihilistic aspects? cc @question
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166 years ago: 'Révolution française de 1848' (French Revolution of 1848) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848 !history
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69 years ago: the US flag was raised atop Mount Suribachi #硫黄島の星条旗 (1200 km distance to Tokyo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima tomorrow !history
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33 years ago: 23-F, El Tejerazo, attempted coup d'état in #Spain, "bursting into the Spanish Congress of Deputies by a group of 200 armed officers of the Guardia Civil during the process of electing Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo to be the country's new Prime Minister" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23-F #tomorrow !history
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October 2013: "I speak only de, en, fr and tr fluently but I like #languages because they offer a way to #think about stuff. I guess my other choices of study back then would be #history and/or #languages" February 2014: "I educate myself about #Asian culture and learn some of their !language" cc @question
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17 years ago: #Dolly's existence was announced to the public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29 tomorrow in !history
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91 years ago: Mustafa Kemal #Atatürk came on the front page of the Times, for the 2nd time. !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk
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50 years ago in !history: İsmet #İnönü (1938 - 1950: 2nd Turkish president) was attacked by a shooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0smet_%C4%B0n%C3%B6n%C3%BC
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71 years ago: Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed by guillotine !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_and_Sophie_Scholl #tomorrow
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49 years ago in !history: 39-year old Malcolm X was #assassinated: "The autopsy report showed #21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, and arms and legs, of which 10 were buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Assassination
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99 years ago: the 'naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign' of WWI began (and lasted for 11 months) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the_Dardanelles_Campaign !history
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55 years ago: the 'London and Zurich Agreements' for the constitution of #Cyprus started with an agreement in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_Zurich_Agreements !history
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2 years ago: Christian #Wulff "resigned as President of Germany, facing the prospect of prosecution for allegations of #corruption relating to his prior service as 'Prime Minister of Lower Saxony' " !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wulff
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