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Catalonia's autonomous government, led by Lluís Companys (pictured), declared a general strike, an armed insurgency,…
Catalonia's autonomous government, led by Lluís Companys (pictured), declared a general strike, an armed insurgency,…
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…
As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which became a…
The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, to be…
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
A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri d
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter…
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.