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The story of the man who was King of Albania... or was he? Did he suffer from mythomania?

On August 6, 1930 a Norwegian ship crew makes a discovery heard around the world. They discover the remains of the Andree's Polar Expedition... which had not been heard from for 33 years!

On this day, July 30, 2003...the last real Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line.

On July 23, 1887, a world record may – or may not – have been set. Steve Brodie, small-time gambler, bookie, and man of the world either did – or did not – become the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and survive.

On July 16, 1945, Edwin M. McMillan was one of the observers of the Trinity nuclear bomb test at Alamagordo, New Mexico … in his account of the day, he concluded I am sure that all who witnessed this test went away with a profound feeling that they had seen one of the great events of history.

On July 14th, in the year 1960, Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanganyika, now part of Tanzania. On that day she began what would become a more than 50-year study of the Kasakela chimpanzee community.

On this day in 1850, Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází was executed by firing squad in Tabriz, Persia…he was just 30 years old, but his writings and teachings had brought him nearly a million followers, and he had sown the seeds that would grow into the Bahai faith.

On this day sliced bread was first produced and put on sale

On June 25, 1886 Toscanini makes his debut

a French President is murdered by an anarchist in 1894