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On 5th June 1989, the Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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On 29th May 1990, the Russian parliament elected Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
FULL VIDEO ON COLD WAR HERE: https://t.co/v4UIk5oM8W
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On 26th May 946, King Edmund I of England was murdered by a thief whom he personally attacked while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.
FULL VIDEO ON MONARCHS OF ENGLAND HERE: https://t.co/lOCPap21Xp
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On 18th May 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
FULL VIDEO ON NAPOLEONIC WARS HERE: https://t.co/eVzOjibQOQ
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #france #napoleon #bonaparte
On 7th May 1915, German submarine U-20 sank RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans.
FULL VIDEO ON WW1 HERE: https://t.co/nTP5YJtl1h
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#lusitania #kinsale #kinsalehead #wildwatlanticway
On 6th May 1933, the Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
FULL VIDEO ON WW2 HERE: https://t.co/KfoUjCGsds
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #ww2 #lgbtq #magnushirschfeld #queerhistory
On 5th May 1945, the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath became effective, encompassing all German armed forces opposing the 21st Army Group in northwestern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
VIDEO ON WW2 HERE: https://t.co/KfoUjCGsds
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory
On 29th April 1916, after six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrendered to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
FULL VIDEO ON EASTER RISING HERE: https://t.co/1w0HogNyWW
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #ireland #easterrising #surrender
On 27th April 1813 American troops captured York (now Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
FULL VIDEO ON WAR OF 1812 HERE: https://t.co/b64hrmgEcE
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #warof1812 #usa #canada #york #toronto #ontario #lakeontario