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17th September 1862: Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal in Pennsylvania sees the largest single civilian loss of life...

More than 1,100 people worked at the Arsenal, 78 of whom died while many more were injured.More...

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14th September 1607: ‘Flight of the Earls’ sees Gaelic nobility, led by Hugh O’Neill and Rory O’

In the wake of the flight of the Earls, the lands and titles left behind were confiscated by the...

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11th September 1973: General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile after launching a coup against President Salvador...

General Pinochet soon emerged as the permanent head of the ruling junta and set about imposing a...

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10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War

The Austrian delegation to Paris was led by the Social Democrat minister Karl Renner who had...

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9th September 1776: The name ‘United States’ of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress

The new name for the former Thirteen Colonies represented a cohesive identity that united them...

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5th September 1781: Battle of the Chesapeake sees the British Navy repelled by the French during the American War of...

The French victory blocked British reinforcements and resupplies for General Cornwallis at...

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4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general...

Romulus’ overthrow facilitated Odoacer’s rise and the transition to the Ostrogothic ...

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3rd September 301: The world’s oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marin

While the republic’s first government was based on a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo,...

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4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by ‘tipping’ a V-1 doodlebug

RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when...

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30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale

Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and first appeared in a story called ‘The Case of...

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26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima ends after US Marines officially secure the island from the Japanese Imperial...

The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce...

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24th March 1721: Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates the Brandenburg Concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of...

The concertos may have never even been performed because Christian Ludwig didn’t have good enough...

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22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a...

Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large...

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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the...

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16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US soldiers from Company C of the Americal Division’s 11th Infantry.

Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians...

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14th March 1950: The FBI first publishes its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention....

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10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call when he contacts his assistant,...

It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his...

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6th March 1869: Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presents his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society

While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed...

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4th March 1789: US Congress meets for the first time, and the United States Constitution goes into effect

The Congress met in New York City, but the 18th Century’s slow forms of transport meant that many...

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2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation Rolling Thunder alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force

Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons...

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