This Day in History Class

The Great Fire of Rome began on this day in the year 64. / On this day in 1969, a cease-fire was called in the so-called Football War, or Soccer War, between El Salvador and Honduras.

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The Romanov family was executed on this day in 1918. / On this day in 1959, paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered the skull of a hominin called Paranthropus boisei, also known as Zinj or the Nutcracker Man.

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Journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born on this day in 1862. / On this day in 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was forcefully removed from a segregated streetcar in New York.

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After roughly four centuries, the Spanish Inquisition was disbanded on this day in 1834. / On this day in 1864, Maggie Walker was born.

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Gertrude Bell, who helped shape modern Iraq, was born on this day in 1868. / On this day in 1933, Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.

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The New York Draft Riots began on this day in 1863. / On this day in 1930, Uruguay hosted the first FIFA World Cup.

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The Bisbee Deportation took place on this day in 1917 in Bisbee, Arizona. / On this day in 1856, American filibuster William Walker set himself up as president of Nicaragua.

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Explorer Zheng He's first voyage began on this day in 1405. / On this day in 1897, S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and Knut Fraenkel began their doomed journey to the North Pole on a hot air balloon.

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Famed inventor Nikola Tesla was born on the day in 1856. / On this day 1902, Cuban writer and activist Nicolás Guillén was born.

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The Constitutionalist Revolution began on this day in 1932. / The Great Train Wreck of 1918 happened on this day when two trains in Nashville collided head-on, killing and injuring hundreds of people.

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