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1900
Unknown dozens of Western missionaries & Chinese Christians are beheaded and left to the dogs in during the Boxer Rebellion. Whether or not the massacre was ordered by the isolationist governor remains a

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2020-07-10

1215
In an effort to curtail an unpopular king, over-taxed barons compel John to seal at Runnymede in Though neither side honored their commitments, the articles provide a base on which a future will form.

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2020-06-16

1772
After HMS Gaspee runs aground chasing a smuggler off the coast, 80 men loot the ship before setting it aflame. The affair presaged the Tea Party and other against British rule in colonial America.

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2020-06-11

1772
After HMS Gaspee runs aground chasing a smuggler off the coast, 80 men loot the ship before setting it aflame. The incident presaged the Tea Party and other against British rule in colonial America.

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2020-06-11

455CE
The Vandals lay waste to The malevolent Emperor, who had already been killed by a mob, had infuriated the Germanics by cancelling his step-daughter's engagement to their prince in favor of his own son.

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2020-06-03

455CE
Petronius Maximus is killed by a mob while fleeing in panic from the imminent sacking of The Emperor of 75 days had infuriated the Vandals by cancelling his step-daughter's engagement to their prince in favor of his own son.

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2020-06-01

1998
Armed men hiding in a restroom until closing time subdue guards at the National Gallery of in and abscond with only 2 Van Goghs and a Cézanne. The remain unrecovered.

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2020-05-19

1671
Thomas Blood and accomplices steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of after stabbing their custodian, though they are immediately apprehended. Why Charles II responded to the by awarding him land in remains a

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2020-05-10

2010
An explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon kill 11 people and sink the drilling rig off the coast. The subsequent spill took five months to contain and remains the worst in American

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2020-04-21

1770
Soldiers fire into an armed mob of hundreds outside the Custom House, with ultimately 6 fatalities. The Massacre exacerbated public outrage over taxation and troop deployment and would prove a catalyst for revolution.

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2020-03-06

1854
"City of Glasgow" departs for with over 470 passengers and crew, never to be seen again. Though unusually dense ice was reported in the Atlantic that year, the cause of the steamer's disappearance is a

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2020-03-02

1692
Three women are arrested for witchcraft after several village girls show signs of possession. Scores of people in what is now will be accused and twenty executed during the monthslong

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2020-03-02

2008
In the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, Misha Defonseca confesses that her ghostwritten is actually fiction. The fabrications in "Misha" include the author's killing of a Nazi attacker, a trek across Europe and her adoption by wolves.

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2020-03-01

1997
Klimt's "Portrait of a Lady" is stolen under mysterious circumstances from the Ricci-Oddi in by person or persons unknown. The was found undamaged in 2019 in a wall recess of the museum's own garden.

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2020-02-23

2008
Armed, masked men raid E.G. Bührle museum at closing time and steal four by Cézanne, Degas, Monet and Van Gogh, worth millions. An international investigation will lead to the recovery of all the by 2012.

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2020-02-11

1941
Painter Amrita Sher-Gil dies suddenly of causes at age 28 in Given the cultural impact of her relatively small oeuvre, she might have been among the most prominent of the century.

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2019-12-06

1871
Millions of acres are razed by firestorms in & lakeside towns, including Peshtigo, where over a thousand died. These disasters have been eclipsed by Great Fire that began the same day.

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2019-10-09

2010
Explorers discover the wreck of the legendary City of Everett in the Gulf of Mexico. The whaleback freighter, the first steamship to circle the globe, sank while hauling Cuban molasses to in 1923.

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2019-09-11

1916
Shirley Jackson was in
"Fear...is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway."

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2018-12-15