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Bombs strike the USS Arizona causing it to explode; 900 sailors die and the ship sinks.
Americans land on Utah Beach, one of five Normandy beaches attacked on D-day.
Vasily Zaitsev is one of the Soviet snipers who helps the Russians overcome the Germans.
Vasily Zaitsev is a famous and successful Russian sniper.
Due to sharp peaks, steep inclines, unsafe crevasses, and avalanches, K2 is not the setting for Vertical Limit.
Mt. Vesuvius's first "pine tree" eruption is now termed a "Plinian" event.
Schwieger, captain of the U-boat, doesn't send a second torpedo, he sees the victims and knows the Lusitania will sink.
100 years ago, a mother influenced her son to vote "yes" for female suffrage. August 18, 1920 was the day when Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment.
Maps detail the loss of Hooker's Union troops at Chancellorsville.
Outnumbered, Wallace and his men defeat Edward's forces and take over Stirling Castle, the most important fortress in Scotland.
Vincent commits suicide by shooting himself in the chest; he dies 2 days later at 37 years of age.
On March 5, 1770, British Armysoldiers kill five civilian men and injure six others in Boston.
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