9th March 1945: Operation Meetinghouse firebombs Tokyo, most destructive bombing raid in history
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5th April 1958: Ripple Rock underwater mountain in Canada destroyed in an enormous explosion
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6th July 1988: Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed in the deadliest offshore oil disaster in history
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13th August 1521: End of the Aztec Empire with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Hernán Cortés
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24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp
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29th November 1781: Over 132 slaves thrown from the 'Zong' ship
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10th May 1869: ‘Golden Spike’ completes the first transcontinental railroad in the United States
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19th June 1846: First officially recorded baseball game takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey
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14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era
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25th August 1944: Liberation of Paris as the Nazi German garrison surrenders the city to the Allies
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1st November 1938: Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in a direct contest between the two racehorses
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27th April 1945: Mussolini, the former dictator of Italy, captured by partisans in northern Italy
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8th November 1923: Adolf Hitler leads the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, alongside General Ludendorff
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28th November 1943: The Tehran Conference begins between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
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31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London leads to John Snow’s work on germ-contaminated water
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27th May 1942: Reinhard Heydrich fatally injured in an assassination attempt in Prague
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27th June 1898: Joshua Slocum completes the first solo circumnavigation of the globe
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20th April 1968: Enoch Powell delivers his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech on immigration
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20th October 1818: Treaty of 1818 agrees 49th parallel border between U.S. and British North America
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12th March 1933: The first "fireside chat" delivered by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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23rd August 1939: Molotov and Ribbentrop sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact on behalf of the USSR and Germany
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18th March 1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov conducts the first ever spacewalk
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2nd September 1792: Thousands of victims killed in the French Revolution's September Massacres
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26th July 1945: The Potsdam Declaration demand the unconditional surrender of Japan
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13th May 1865: The Battle of Palmito Ranch, considered to be the last battle of the Civil War
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20th June 1789: Tennis Court Oath sworn by the French National Assembly
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17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany
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22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush opens 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands to settlement
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24th October 1648: Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years’ War that ravaged Europe
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16th March 1660: England's Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session
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