today in history
(Is this pretty much the most boring out of all the boring things I do here?)456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, discovered.
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established
1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.
1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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