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35 years ago today, the album Streetcleaner by the Industrial metal band Godflesh from Birmingham, United Kingdom was released. (feddit.nl)
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55 years ago today, the Hanson quintuplets were born. They were the first set to survive in the United Kingdom, as well as the second surviving set of all-girl quintuplets after the Dionne quintuplets (news.bbc.co.uk)
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110 years ago today, Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the Battle of El Herri in Morocco. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, Michael Schumacher became the first German to win a Formula One World Championship. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today the album Sun Eater by the Technical Death Metal / Deathcore band Job for a Cowboy from Glendale, Arizona was released. (i.postimg.cc)
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90 years ago today the Shrine of Remembrance, a memorial to all Australians who have served in war, opened in Melbourne. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today Leonardo DiCaprio, an American actor and film producer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian political leader, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today the jazz singer Carmen McRae died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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260 years ago today Andrés Manuel del Río, a Spanish scientist, naturalist and engineer, was born. He discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today thirteen members of the Ehrenfeld Group were publicly hanged in Cologne. It was an anti-Nazi resistance group, active in the summer and autumn of 1944. (en.wikipedia.org)
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German (audio) source with picture of the execution (ARD)

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80 years ago today Phil May, vocalist in The Pretty Things, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today version 1.0 of Firefox was released. (en.wikipedia.org)
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110 years ago today off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean, at the Battle of Cocos. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today Holger Meins, a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s, died on hunger strike in prison. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today Rickie Lee Jones, an American singer/songwriter, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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380 years ago today the Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today Georg Elser's bomb exploded. He carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Hitler survived as he left 13 minutes before the explosion

Elser was arrested and executed in 1945

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45 years ago today a group of armed Iranian college students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats and citizens as hostages. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today half a million demonstrators turned out against the East German regime in East Berlin. (en.wikipedia.org)
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German source (Deutschlandfunk)

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70 years ago today Adam Ant, the frontman of Adam and the Ants, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today Anna Wintour, a British-American media executive, was born. She has been serving as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today the One World Trade Center opened. It is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today the album The Battle of Los Angeles by the Rap Metal band Rage Against the Machine from United States was released. (i.ibb.co)
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20 years ago today the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist who objected to one of his film's message. (en.wikipedia.org)
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