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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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241 |
Dachau was the first Nazi German concentration camp that opened in Germany in 1933. |
History > European |
04/05/09 |
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242 |
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria on April 20, 1889. |
History > Famous Dates |
04/20/09 |
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243 |
Heinrich Himmler was the head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS. |
History > European |
04/21/09 |
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244 |
Nikita Khrushchev believed that peaceful co-existence between communist and capitalist states was possible. |
History > European |
04/23/09 |
|
245 |
It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave their eyebrows off, and so the Mona Lisa has none! |
History > European |
05/18/09 |
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246 |
The incandescent light bulb was invented in 1879. |
History > World |
05/29/09 |
|
247 |
The elevator was invented in 1852. |
History |
06/03/09 |
|
248 |
Barack Obama is the first African-American President of the United States. |
History > United States |
07/19/09 |
|
249 |
Burton J. Hendrick won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1921. |
History |
08/11/09 |
|
250 |
Jean Jules Jusserand won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1917. |
History |
08/12/09 |
|
251 |
Edward Channing won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1926. |
History |
08/12/09 |
|
252 |
William Sowden Sims won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1921. |
History |
08/12/09 |
|
253 |
James Ford Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. |
History |
08/12/09 |
|
254 |
Justin H. Smith won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1920. |
History |
08/12/09 |
|
255 |
Charles Howard McIlwain won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1924. |
History |
08/12/09 |
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