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Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
Benjamin Banneker
Eiffel Tower
The official opening of the League of Nations.
Juan Trippe
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem
Oct 19 1009
Thu 00:22:00
Al-Ḥākim's destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1009.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Guild of Saint Luke
Sun Oct 18 1503
Leonardo had left Borgia's service and returned to Florence by early 1503, where he rejoined the Guild of Saint Luke on 18 October of that year.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ho Chi Minh
Marriage
Mon Oct 18 1926
He lived with a Chinese woman, Zeng Xueming (Tăng Tuyết Minh), whom he married on 18 October 1926.
Ho Chi Minh
The Holocaust
Odessa massacre
Sun Oct 18 1942
The Romanian military killed up to 25,000 Jews during the Odessa massacre between 18 October 1941 and March 1942, assisted by gendarmes and the police.
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Martin Bormann
The Volkssturm
Wed Oct 18 1944
Bormann and Himmler shared responsibility for the Volkssturm (people's militia), which drafted all remaining able-bodied men aged 16 to 60 into a last-ditch militia founded on 18 October 1944. Poorly equipped and trained, the men were sent to fight on the eastern front, where nearly 175,000 of them were killed without having any discernible impact on the Soviet advance.
Martin Bormann
Korean War
China entered the war
Wed Oct 18 1950
Immediately on his return to Beijing on 18 October 1950, Zhou met with Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai and Gao Gang, and the group ordered two hundred thousand PVA troops to enter North Korea, which they did on 19 October.
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Crusades
Siege of Antioch
Wed Oct 20 1097
The Crusader army marched to the former Byzantine city of Antioch that had been in Muslim control since 1084. The Crusaders began the siege of Antioch in October 1097 tell Antioch was captured.
Battle during the Second Crusade
George Washington
Siege of Yorktown ended
Sat Oct 20 1781
The siege ended with a British surrender on October 19, 1781; over 7,000 British soldiers were captured, in the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Napoleon
Ulm Campaign ended
Sun Oct 20 1805
The Ulm Campaign is generally regarded as a strategic masterpiece and was influential in the development of the Schlieffen Plan in the late 19th century.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Battle of Navarino
Sat Oct 20 1827
Muhammad Ali sent 16,000 soldiers, and 63 escort vessels under command of his son, Ibrahim Pasha. Britain, France, and Russia intervened to protect the Greek revolutionaries. On 20 October 1827 at the Battle of Navarino, while under the command of Muharram Bey, the Ottoman representative, the entire Egyptian navy was sunk by the European Allied fleet, under the command of Admiral Edward Codrington.
Muhammad Ali Pasha
Second Boer War
Boer guns began shelling the British camp
Fri Oct 20 1899
Boer guns began shelling the British camp from the summit of Talana Hill at dawn on 20 October. Penn Symons immediately counter-attacked: his infantry drove the Boers from the hill, for the loss of 446 British casualties, including Penn Symons.
The Second Boer War
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Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)
Lülin rebels stormed the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang
Fri Oct 6 23
Lülin rebels stormed the Weiyang Palace and killed Wang. The Gengshi Emperor ascended the throne, restoring the Han dynasty.
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)
Roman Empire
Claudius died
Tue Oct 13 54
Claudius was deified later that year. The death of Claudius paved the way for Agrippina's own son, the 17-year-old Lucius Domitius Nero.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire
Mad Nero
Tue Oct 13 54
Nero ruled from 54 to 68. During his rule, Nero focused much of his attention on diplomacy, trade, and increasing the cultural capital of the empire.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire
Valerian's first act as emperor
Sat Oct 22 253
Valerian's first act as emperor on October 22, 253, was to appoint his son Gallienus caesar. Early in his reign, affairs in Europe went from bad to worse, and the whole West fell into disorder. In the East, Antioch had fallen into the hands of a Sassanid vassal and Armenia was occupied by Shapur I (Sapor).
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Byzantine Empire
Battle of Mons Lactarius
Sun Oct 22 552
Totila's successor, Teia, was defeated at the Battle of Mons Lactarius (October 552).
Byzantine Empire
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Cold war
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II.
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Vietnam War
Berlin Wall
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
U.S. Presidents
In this collection, we list U.S. Presidents Stories. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a 4-year term by the people through the Electoral College.
George Washington
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
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John F. Kennedy
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George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Great Women in History
The female characters affected history.
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Blackwell
Marie Curie
Anna May Wong
Mother Teresa
Rosa Parks
Indira Gandhi
Margaret Thatcher
Angela Merkel
Halimah Yacob
Ruby Bridges
Theresa May
Princess Diana
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