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On December 16, 1773, American colonists, frustrated with British taxation, dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor. The event became a major act of defiance against British rule and a key moment leading up to the American Revolution.
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On July 20, 1969, humanity took its first steps on the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong famously declared, 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'
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In September 1620, the Mayflower set sail from England, carrying 102 passengers seeking religious freedom in the New World. After a treacherous two-month journey, they landed at Plymouth Rock and established one of the first permanent European colonies in America.
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On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall—a symbol of Cold War division—came crashing down after decades of separating East and West Berlin. The wall’s fall marked the beginning of German reunification and the end of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe.
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During Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, a French soldier uncovered a black basalt slab covered in mysterious inscriptions near the town of Rosetta. This artifact, now known as the Rosetta Stone, contained the same text in Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Its discovery allowed scholars to finally decode hieroglyphic
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The Great Fire of London began in a small bakery on Pudding Lane and quickly spread across the city. Over the course of four days, it destroyed 87 churches, 13,200 houses, and left tens of thousands homeless. The fire led to major changes in building codes and urban planning
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Long before animé heroines, onna-bugeisha rode into battle beside male samurai. The most storied, Tomoe Gozen, appears in the 14th-century epic Tale of the Heike: “strong as a man, skilled with bow and sword, a fearless horse-rider.” At the 1184 Battle of Awazu, she allegedly decapitated an enemy general mid-charge.
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A French munitions freighter, SS Mont-Blanc, laden with 2 653 tonnes of TNT, collided with Norwegian relief ship Imo in a foggy harbour narrows. Fire broke out; 20 minutes later Halifax felt the largest human-made explosion before nuclear weapons—equivalent to 2.9 kilotons. A shockwave levelled half the city,
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At 07:17 a.m. on 30 June 1908, a blinding fireball streaked over the Stony Tunguska River. Seconds later, a mid-air explosion—now estimated at up to 50 megatons, 1 000× Hiroshima—flattened 80 million trees in a radial pattern visible from space. Shockwaves rattled windows in Moscow and
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One July morning, Frau Troffea started shimmying in a Strasbourg street—and couldn’t stop. Within days dozens joined her; by August, perhaps 400 people were stuck in a trance-like boogie, their feet bleeding through wooden clogs. City councillors, believing music might “dance out” the fever, hired pipe-bands to play
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Europe’s café-soaked creative hub—yet four future strongmen were renting cheap rooms within a few tram stops of one another. Adolf Hitler sketched postcards in a dingy men’s hostel; Joseph Stalin, travelling as “Koba,” plotted Bolshevik finances; Leon Trotsky polished newspaper columns; and Josip Broz Tito laboured in