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372 Episoade

1. 11th April 1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his commands in Korean and Japan

   Publicat: 11.04.2025
2. 10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy

   Publicat: 10.04.2025
3. 9th April 1860: First known audio recording made by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph

   Publicat: 09.04.2025
4. 8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name

   Publicat: 08.04.2025
5. 7th April 1739: Legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin executed in York after being convicted of horse theft

   Publicat: 07.04.2025
6. 6th April 1917: The USA declares war on Germany in WW1

   Publicat: 06.04.2025
7. 5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America

   Publicat: 05.04.2025
8. 4th April 1841: US President William Henry Harrison dies 32 days after taking office, ending the shortest presidency in US history

   Publicat: 04.04.2025
9. 3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford

   Publicat: 03.04.2025
10. 2nd April 1877: Zazel performs the first recorded human cannonball act at the Royal Aquarium in London

    Publicat: 02.04.2025
11. 1st April 1918: Royal Air Force formally established in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service

    Publicat: 01.04.2025
12. 31st March 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially completed and inaugurated in Paris for the Exposition Universelle

    Publicat: 31.03.2025
13. 30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

    Publicat: 30.03.2025
14. 29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam

    Publicat: 29.03.2025
15. 28th March 1979: British Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a vote of no confidence by a single vote

    Publicat: 28.03.2025
16. 27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines

    Publicat: 27.03.2025
17. 26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

    Publicat: 26.03.2025
18. 25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their first “Bed-In for Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam

    Publicat: 25.03.2025
19. 24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia

    Publicat: 24.03.2025
20. 23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

    Publicat: 23.03.2025