On This Day in History

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On this day 14.08.1908 in Folkestone (England) held the first international beauty contest.

 

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On August 23, 1962, The Beatles' leader and vocalist John Lennon married Cynthia Powell.

 

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On August 25, 1912, in the city of Neunkirchen, the Great Erich Honecker was born into a miner's family.
Why the Great? He never betrayed his communist convictions... neither in Hitler's dungeons, nor after the extradition by the Russian authorities to bourgeois partners, already suffering from oncology, nor in a new prison

 

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On August 27 , 1939, Hitler said in a speech that Danzig must return to Germany ; 5 days later, the Nazis invaded Poland .

Prior to this, the Soviet Union had offered to send 1 million troops to defend Poland against a German invasion. Stalin had also offered to form a coalition with Britain and France to defend Poland against the Nazis, but the Poles rejected all these offers and took their chances with Hitler

 

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20 years of the tragedy in Beslan, Russia
Wahhabis and Basayev's terrorists seized the school, took hostages, shot children in the backs.
334 people died, including 186 children.