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The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona is defeated by anarchist militias and Republican loyalists, beginning the…
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, dedicated to Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed in the First World War,…
The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
Opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the crews of the…
During a strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, a fight began between nearly 10,000 American strikers
The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia
German chancellor Adolf Hitler began a purge of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and other political rivals, exec
A referendum supported the recent merging of the posts of chancellor and president of Germany, consolidating Adolf…
As part of Nazi Germany's persecution of transgender people, thousands of books taken from the Institute for Sexual Scie
The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47…
Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a…
Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictu
Nazi deputies assaulted journalist Helmuth Klotz in the German parliament building after he publicized the homosexuality
Donoghue v Stevenson is decided, ultimately establishing the foundation for negligence in common law jurisdictions world
A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri d
A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri d