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Photograph taken showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white lynch mob - Red Summer
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Anqing Uprising
Anqing, Anhui, China
Jul 6 1907
Sat 13:36:00
On 6 July 1907, Xu Xilin of Guangfuhui led an uprising in Anqing, Anhui, which became known as the Anqing Uprising. Xu Xilin at the time was the police commissioner as well as the supervisor of the police academy. He led an uprising that was to assassinate the provincial governor of Anhui, En Ming. They were defeated after four hours of fighting. Xu was captured, and En Ming's bodyguards cut out his heart and liver and ate them. His cousin Qiu Jin was executed a few days later.
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Napoleon
Battle of Wagram
Wed Jul 5 1809
In the ensuing Battle of Wagram, which also lasted two days, Napoleon commanded his forces in what was the largest battle of his career up until then. Napoleon finished off the battle with a concentrated central thrust that punctured a hole in the Austrian army and forced Charles to retreat.
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Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Mon Jul 5 1852
On July 5, 1852, Douglass delivered an address to the ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society. This speech eventually became known as "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"; one biographer called it "perhaps the greatest antislavery oration ever given".
Frederick Douglass
Father's Day
The First observance of a day honoring fathers
Sun Jul 5 1908
Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. As a civic celebration in the US, it was inaugurated in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day by celebrating fathers and male parenting. After Anna Jarvis' successful promotion of Mother's Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of a day honoring fathers was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church.
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Ho Chi Minh
The Steamer arrived In Marseille
Wed Jul 5 1911
The steamer departed on 5 June 1911 and arrived in Marseille, France on 5 July 1911. The ship then left for Le Havre and Dunkirk, returning to Marseille in mid-September. There, he applied for the French Colonial Administrative School, but his application was rejected and he instead decided to begin traveling the world by working on ships and visited many countries from 1911 to 1917.
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Albrecht Kossel
Kossel's Death
Tue Jul 5 1927
Kossel died quietly on 5 July 1927, after a recurring attack of angina pectoris. He is buried in Heidelberg, Germany.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach's wife suddenly died
Sun Jul 7 1720
On 7 July 1720, while Bach was away in Carlsbad with Prince Leopold, Bach's wife suddenly died.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Napoleon
Treaties of Tilsit
Tue Jul 7 1807
Moreover, Alexander's pretensions at friendship with Napoleon led the latter to seriously misjudge the true intentions of his Russian counterpart, who would violate numerous provisions of the treaty in the next few years. Despite these problems, the Treaties of Tilsit at last gave Napoleon a respite from war and allowed him to return to France, which he had not seen in over 300 days.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Armenian Genocide
A two-page report concerning the Armenian massacres
Wed Jul 7 1915
Although a neutral state throughout the war, Sweden had permanent representatives in the Ottoman Empire who closely followed and continuously reported on major developments there. Its embassy in Constantinople was led by Ambassador Cossva Anckarsvärd, with M. Ahlgren as envoy and Captain Einar af Wirsén as military attaché. On 7 July 1915, Ambassador Anckarsvärd dispatched a two-page report concerning the Armenian massacres to Stockholm.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Wed Jul 7 1937
On the night of July 7, 1937, Chinese and Japanese troops exchanged fire in the vicinity of the Marco Polo (or Lugou) Bridge, a crucial access-route to Beijing. What began as confused, sporadic skirmishing soon escalated into a full-scale battle in which Beijing and its port city of Tianjin fell to Japanese forces (July–August 1937).
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John Maynard Keynes
Baron Keynes, of Tilton, in the County of Sussex
Tue Jul 7 1942
On 7 July his title was gazetted as "Baron Keynes, of Tilton, in the County of Sussex" and he took his seat in the House of Lords on the Liberal Party benches.
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Great Fire of Rome
Fri Jul 18 64
He believed himself a god and decided to build an opulent palace for himself. The so-called Domus Aurea, meaning golden house in Latin, was constructed atop the burnt remains of Rome after the Great Fire of Rome (64). Nero was ultimately responsible for the fire. By this time Nero was hugely unpopular despite his attempts to blame the Christians for most of his regime's problems.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
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Vespasian
Mon Jul 1 69
As a result of the Second Battle of Bedriacum, Vespasian became the fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
Roman Empire
Hadrian died
Thu Jul 10 138
Hadrian died in the year 138 on 10 July, in his villa at Baiae at the age of 62.
Aureus of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor
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Antoninus Pius
Fri Jul 11 138
Antoninus Pius's reign was comparatively peaceful; there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Judaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britain, but none of them are considered serious.
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Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)
Liang Ji poisoned Zhi
Tue Jul 26 146
Liang Ji poisoned Zhi, killing him.
A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)
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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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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.
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Great Women in History
The female characters affected history.
Sojourner Truth
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