7 April is Belgian Veterans’ Day.
A ceremony is held annually at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Brussels to commemorate Belgian military personnel who lost their lives during operations since 1945
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The Hippodrome of Constantinople continued to function until around 1200 after which it was severely damaged by the Crusaders.
Much still survived, allowing for it to become Ottoman Kostantiniyye's main public space.
From Onofrio Panvinio (16th c.)
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Iran is home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the Middle East outside Israel.
This rarely makes headlines.
Jewish communities have lived in Persia for over 2,700 years continue to pray for peace for their country.
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6 April 1944
44 children (ages 4-17) were arrested during the Nazi raid on the children's home Maison D'Izieu
They were all murdered.
"The crime of Izieu can never be forgiven or forgotten" Sabine Zlatin
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7 April 1943
A bird's-eye view of USS Iowa, off Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
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Beneath the stone vaults of ancient Smyrna, water still flows after 2,000 years.
Inside the Agora of İzmir, this ancient channel still runs beneath the Roman arches.
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Stone steps descending into Stanley Dock, Liverpool.
Part of a dock system opened in 1848.
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7 April 451 AD
Attila the Hun captured and devastated Metz, France.
His army killed most of the inhabitants and burned the city to the ground.
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7 April 1969
The internet was born
The Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a contract to build a world wide web for BBN Technologies.
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7 April 1947
Henry Ford died at his Dearborn, Michigan estate at the age of 83.
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7 April 1915
Jazz singer great Billie Holiday, born as Eleanora Fagan, is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
She won four Grammy Awards all posthumously for Best Historical Album.
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7 April 1933
The Nazis enact the Law Concerning the Re-establishment of a Professional Civil Service, mandating non-Aryans retire and prohibits state employees who were considered politically unreliable.
It initially exempts World War I veterans.
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7 April 1141
Empress Matilda begins her short reign as first female ruler of England.
She is sometimes called Maude or “Lady of the English.”
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7 April 1199
Richard I of England, known as ‘the Lionheart,’ died at age 41 from a wound received while besieging a castle in France.
A leading commander of the Third Crusade, he fought valiantly to reclaim Jerusalem from Saladin
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7 April 2009
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering murder and kidnappings during his time in office.
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7 April 1959
Oklahoma voters go to the polls to end prohibition some 26 years after 21st Amendment to U.S Constitution ended alcohol prohibition in 1933.
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7 April 1955
Tory Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns due to health reasons.
He is succeeded by Anthony Eden.
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7 April 1649
Lucy Walter was ready to give birth to her son, the future Duke of Monmouth.
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'A new face at Euston'
Stanier Pacific 46237 'City of Bristol' sits alongside prototype Deltic at Euston in 1956.
📸Kevin Lane
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D6332 with a train for Cardiff leaving Wiveliscombe, Somerset, June 1965
Wiveliscombe Station, now closed.
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7 April 1862
General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
The battle resulted in the highest number of American casualties to date, however, it surpassed by three other Civil War battles.
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7 April 1656
Polish troops under the command of Stefan Czarniecki, after an incredibly fast and surprising maneuver to cross the Pilica River, destroyed the Swedish forces in the Battle of Warka.
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7 April 1988
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced that Soviet troops would withdraw from Afghanistan.
They started leaving in May 1988
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Beit Hanoun
It was once known as the “Green City” for its abundance of olive and orange trees.
It produced and exported oranges and olives to the entire world.
Israel has bulldozed the city, leaving not a single tree behind.
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7 April 1739
Highwayman John Palmer aka Dick Turpin was hanged in York for murdering an inn-keeper.
Before the execution Turpin and John Stead (a horse thief) were paraded through York by open cart to the Knavesmire gallows site as a large crowd watched.
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7 April 1770
William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria.
He was Britain’s poet laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
He helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with his joint publication Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Coleridge.
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7 April 1860
William Kellog was born in Battle, Michigan, USA.
He co-founded the Kellogg Company with his brother John Kellog which produced a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals including Corn Flakes.
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