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On Sept. 8, 1900, Galveston was unknowingly headed for a night of horror.
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In 1905, Albert Einstein was a 26-year-old young man working six days a week in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern.
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Halley's comet is named after Edmond G. Halley who was the first to suggest that comets were natural phenomena of the solar system, in orbit around the Sun.
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On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium.
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Plague’s deadly epidemic potential is notorious and well documented. The Justinian pandemic (542 to 767 A.D.) spread from central Africa to the Mediterranean littoral and thence to Asia Minor, causing an estimated 40 million deaths.
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Although it is thought of as having been 'written' by Hitler, Mein Kampf is not a book in the usual sense. Hitler never actually sat down and pecked at a typewriter or wrote longhand, but instead dictated it to Rudolph Hess while pacing around his prison cell in 1923-24 and later at an inn at Berchtesgaden.
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Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun.
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Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid movement founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio.
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No one wanted war. Yet, when Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, other European countries felt they had to act. The result was six long years of World War II.
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The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War..
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Following the invention of the HeNe gas laser, many other gas discharges have been found to amplify light coherently.
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Most poweful earthquake hits Chile on 22, May 1960!
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The Great Northeast Blackout began at the height of rush hour, delaying millions of commuters, trapping 800,000 people in New York's subways
