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On this day: Mount Pelee eruption leads to 30,000 deaths in 1902
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 8:
1902 - Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted...
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On This Day: Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun suicided in 1945
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 30:
1945 - Adolf Hitler and his wife...
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On this day: 1 million rallied in Istanbul against government in 2007
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 29:
1945 - The terms of surrender of...
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On this day: Guernica bombed in 1937 during the Spanish civil war
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 26:
1937 - The Spanish Basque town of...
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On This Day: U.S. and Soviet armies met in German city of Torgau as WWII drew to a close
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 25:
1915 - Australian and New Zealand troops...
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On this day: The Dublin Easter Rising begins in 1916
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 24:
1916 - The Easter Rising, an insurrection...
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On this day: Russia’s first president Boris Yeltsin died in 2007
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 23:
1928 - Life and death of playwright...
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Historic Limassol music hall to be declared listed building
Limassol Municipality has initiated procedures to declare Solon Michaelides' historic music hall a listed building, indicating that they will...
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On this day: Paris Agreement on climate change ratified in 2016
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 22:
1915 - The second battle of Ypres...
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On This Day: Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 killed 168
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 19:
1906 - The French chemist and physicist...
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On this day: Albert Einstein died in 1955
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 18:
1906 - An earthquake struck San Francisco....
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On this day: Khmer Rouge took over Cambodian capital in 1975
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 17:
1957 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrived...
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On this day: Harriet Quimby became the first female to fly across the English Channel in 1912
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 16:
1912 - Harriet Quimby, the first American...
