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Updated Oct. 15, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. The execution of Dutch exotic dancer Mara Hari, a World War I spy, happened on this day in 1917. Who was Mata Hari? Mata Hari, whose real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, was a Dutch dancer and courtesan born on August 7, 1876, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. She became […]
Updated October 7, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a pivotal event in Russian and world history that started on this day in 1917. What was the October Revolution? The October Revolution was a revolution of the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, which took place in […]
World War I started on this day in 1914, with the outbreak of hostilities following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. What event triggered the start of World War I? The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, served […]
November 11, 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The signing of the Armistice brought to an end the war that Ernest Hemingway called “the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth.” A century on, as the world celebrates the anniversary with ceremonies and memorials, this […]
“Pictures: the mystical submarine discovery on the Swedish seabed,” reads Tuesday’s headline in Kvällsposten, a Southern Swedish daily. Icelandic salvage hunting company Ocean X says it has found a small sunken Russian submarine, 20 meters long (65 feet) and 3.5 meters wide (11 feet), some 1.7 miles away from the coast of central Sweden. Swedish […]
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