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30 January 1925 🇺🇸
In #Kentucky, cave explorer #FloydCollins became trapped in #SandCave when a rock fell and pinned his leg. Efforts to rescue him over the next eighteen days garnered national media attention.
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26 January 1925 🇺🇸
In response to a #diphtheria outbreak in #Nome, #Alaska, approximately 300,000 antitoxin units were located in Anchorage. This discovery was crucial in temporarily containing the #epidemic.
#factday #100yearsgo #alaskafact
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25 January 1925 🇳🇴
The #Fedrelandslaget, a right-wing political organization, was established in #Norway by #FridtjofNansen and former Prime Minister #ChristianMichelsen.
#factday #100yearsgo #norwayfact
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20 January 1925 🇩🇪🇯🇵
The #SovietUnion and #Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese Basic Convention, restoring diplomatic relations severed since the 1917 #Bolshevik Revolution.
#factday #100yearsgo #internationalpolitics
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19 January 1925🌎
The #LeagueofNations commenced the second session of the Second #Opium Conference, aiming to reduce global #opiumtrafficking and usage.
#factday #100yearsgo #internationalpolitics
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15 January 1925 🇩🇪
#HansLuther formed a new coalition government, succeeding #WilhelmMarx. His administration included representatives from five political parties, collectively holding 294 of the 493 seats in the #Reichstag.
#factday #100yearsgo #germanhistory
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12 January 1925 🇺🇸
In #Chicago, the #NorthSideGang attempted to assassinate #AlCapone by riddling his car with bullets outside a State Street restaurant. Capone was inside conducting business and escaped unharmed.
#factday #100yearsgo #UShistory #americanganster
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10 January 1925 🇬🇧
The #Britishsubmarine HMS L24 tragically sank in the English Channel after a collision with the #RoyalNavy #battleship HMS Resolution. All 43 crew members aboard L24 lost their lives in this accident.
#factday #100yearsgo #UKhistory #britishnavy
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5 January 1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first woman in the United States to serve as a governor. She was elected after the death of her husband and served as a symbol of progress for women in American politics.
#factday #100yearsgo #usgovernor #USA
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29 December 1924
Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer and Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1919) passed away at the age of 79. Spitteler was renowned for his epic poem Olympian Spring.
#factday #100yearsgo #CarlSpitteler #swissliterature
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25 December 1924
Born in Gwalior, British India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the 10th Prime Minister of India, serving from 1998 to 2004. He was known for his oratory skills and moderate political stance.
#factday #100yearsgo #AtalBihariVajpayee
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22 December 1924
German astronomer Max Wolf discovered the periodic comet 43P/Wolf–Harrington from the Heidelberg Observatory. This comet has an orbital period of approximately 6.9 years and has been observed multiple times since its discovery.
#factday #100yearsgo #comet
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20 December 1924
Adolf Hitler was released from Landsberg Prison after serving approximately nine months of a five-year sentence for his involvement in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, an attempted coup in Munich.
#factday #100yearsgo #adolfhitler
