#OnthisDay

Short history thread: #OnThisDay Operation Retribution (Unternehmen Strafgericht) took place: Nazi Germany & its allies bombarded and then invaded Yugoslavia for refusing to side with them in WWII. 1/8 My
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#onthisday in 1949, a @BostonBTDphotographer photographed Blue Hill Ave so @cityofboston could analyze traffic patterns. We're sharing some of those photos in this thread. Our photographer started at 4 pm
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#OnThisDay in 1960, Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, is captured in Argentina."I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5
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#OnThisDay2019 Santa Claus Of The United States... Soooo #Q Dropped The Beginning of The Movie...This Is How It Ends...#SCOTUS https://youtu.be/DgsYsRvo_4w  via @YouTube 2,718 Views Tweeted May 3, 2019 https://twitter.com/bigredwavenow
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100 years ago #OnThisDay (3 Sept), a gallant last stand took place at a place called Samawa in Iraq. 30 Dogras of C squadron of 10th Hodson’s Horse were surrounded
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Thread:Football Behind Closed DoorsNo.1 - Eric Cantona Football Behind Closed DoorsNo.2 - Emmanuel Ayebayor Football Behind Closed DoorsNo.3 - Roberto Baggio Suggestions welcome
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Gerrard Winstanley, political/religious reformer, was born #OnThisDay 1609. Regarding the earth a ‘common treasury’, Winstanley led the Civil War-era ‘Diggers’ movement that established communities across England to cultivate waste
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#OnThisDay: September 15, 1963Four young Black girls—Addie Mae Collins (14), Denise McNair (11), Carole Robertson (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14)—were killed by a white supremacist in a terrorist attack. But
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1/10 #OnThisDay in 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Croat leaders decided to found the Croatian Defence Council (HVO). The aim was to defend Croats and Muslims from Yugoslav/Serbian aggression. 2/10
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#OnThisDay #OTD September 28, 1997, "The Principal and the Pauper" first aired on the Fox network. Dir: Steven Dean Moore. Wr: Ken Keeler. EP: @thatbilloakley & @Joshstrangehill. Guest-starring Martin Sheen
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#History #Thread #OnThisDay in 1992 Republic of #Croatia and #USA recognized #BosniaandHerzegovina as an independent state. Rump Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia, the aggressor on both Croatia and BiH, hadn't done the
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#OnThisDay 207 years ago, one of the masterminds of music and theatre of all times was born. His name is and will be remembered forever. The one and only: RICHARD
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#OnThisDay Santa Claus of The United States... Title To Be Determined #SCOTUS @bigr... https://youtu.be/8_cfWVMwGyI  via @YouTube 2,536 Views Tweeted April 15, 2019 https://twitter.com/bigredwavenow/status/1117881062758080512 was responding to
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This week's #WellingtonWednesday is the Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos. Fought #OnThisDay 28 Oct 1811.Commanded by Gen. Rowland Hill, who'd asked Wellington's to engage the enemy Division of Gen. Girard,
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#TodayinHistory in 1950, 70 years ago, the 10th Battalion Combat Team (BCT), the 1st of the 5 #PH contingents that formed the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (#PEFTOK), landed in
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John Desmond Bernal; scientist, philosopher of science, activist, Marxist; was born in Nenagh Co. Tipperary #OnThisDay 1901 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Bernal H M Sheehan's critical defence of Bernal at DORAS DCU "J D
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