May 2nd, 1945 - The end is near for World War II in Europe. The Soviet Union announces the fall of Nazi Germany's capital, Berlin. And the Allies announce the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. 1519 - Leonardo Da Vinci, the Itali

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April 30th, 1945 - Nazi Germanys Dictator Adolf Hitler commits suicide during the last days of World War II in Europe. Hitler and Eva Braun, his long time mistress and wife of one day take their own lives as Soviet troops approach his bunker in Berli

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January 27th, 1945In the final month of World War II, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germany's concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, that's where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews perished, as part of the Nazi's fina

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Jan 20th 1981. Iran releases 52 Americans taken hostage at the US embassy in Tehran after 444 days in captivity. It happened just minutes after the Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President succeeding Jimmy Carter in the White House. 1961. In Washington

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December 11, 1936Britains King Edward the VIII becomes the first and only monarch to voluntarily give up his countrys throne . Edward abdicates in order to marry an American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson and he takes the title of the Duke of Winds

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May 10th, 1869they place them up by that without the flowers and mile a track... At Promontory, Utah --- a golden spike is driven into the ground, completing the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. 1933,Months after taking power i

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May 2nd, 1945The end is near for WWII in Europe. The Soviet Union announces the fall of Nazi Germany's capital, Berlin. And the Allies announce the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. 1519,Leonardo Da Vinci, the Italian Renaissanc

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May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

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April 20th, 1889. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany who ruled for more than a dozen years is born in Austria. Hitlers Third Reigh brought WWII and the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews in Europe. 1999. They didnt care who they shot at, they w

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January 18th, 1943During World War Two, the Soviet Union says it's broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. But another year passes before the sieges find lifted in the city, now known as St. Petersburg, Russia. 1912,British explorer Robert F. Scott

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June 30th 1934 Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler begins his so-called Blood Purge of political and military rivals known as the Night of the Long Knives. 1906A major step forward for America's food and drug safety as President Theodore Roosevelt s

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April 29th, 1992. Rioting hits Los Angeles killing 55 people and causing a billion dollars in property damage. It happens after 4 white police officers are acquitted of almost all state charges in the videotape beating a black motorist Rodney King. A

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June 30th 1934 Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler begins his so-called Blood Purge of political and military rivals known as the Night of the Long Knives. 1906A major step forward for America's food and drug safety as President Theodore Roosevelt s

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May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

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May 26th 1940During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops begin their evacuation from Dunkirk, France. They escape Nazi Germany's advancing forces, making their way across the English Channel to Britain. 1868In Washington, President An

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May 10th, 1869they place them up by that without the flowers and mile a track... At Promontory, Utah --- a golden spike is driven into the ground, completing the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. 1933,Months after taking power i

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