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On May 29, 1736, Patrick Henry, famous for the words, “Give me liberty or give me death!” was born. Henry uttered the words that made...
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On May 28, 1908, Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond who’s become the stuff of spy dreams and the focus of...
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On May 27, 1993, a terrorist bomb exploded on the streets of Florence, Italy, seriously damaging 200 works in the Uffizi Gallery, destroying three,...
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On May 26, 1896, Tsar Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, was crowned, two years after he took the throne. An inexperienced military leader,...
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On May 22, 1885, Victor Hugo, author of ‘Les Misérables’ and ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’,...
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On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Barton, who had been a nurse during the American Civil War,...
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On May 20, 1803, American troops raided Tripoli during the First Barbary War. The First Barbary War broke out...
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On May 19, 1501 (or 1507; historians aren’t entirely sure of the year), Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry...
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On May 18, 1974, India became the sixth nation to successfully explode an atomic bomb. India called the...
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On May 15, 1591, Tsarevich Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, died mysteriously at the age of nine. When Dmitri’s...
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