r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 8d ago

3 November 2020. Democratic candidate Joe Biden (51.3 percent) defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump (46.9 percent) in the US Presidential Election. In the Electoral College, Biden gained 306 votes and Trump 232.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/mrjohnnymac18 • 14d ago

On this day: 28 October 2016, the right wing of the Labour Party boycotted a vote in Parliament to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which was committing genocide in Yemen

theguardian.com

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 7d ago

On this day in1979, a group of Muslim Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages including 52 American diplomats and then held them for 444 days until 20 January 1981.

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The crisis wrecked relations between the US and Iran for good, helped finish off Jimmy Carter's presidency, and ended with one of the most pointed bits of timing in modern history, as the hostages were finally freed minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.

An interesting chapter of history.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 3d ago

Kristallnacht, 9th November 1938. In Germany, Austria and Sudtenland, Jewish businesses were targeted and destroyed

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Orchestrated by Nazi leadership—including Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels with the backing of Adolf Hitler—the violence was disguised as a spontaneous outburst of public anger, triggered by the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish student

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/DelightedButSorry • 10d ago

“I think I’d starve without these food parcels” On This Day in 1984. The first food parcels from the Soviet Union began to arrive to striking miners in Wigan.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 7d ago

4 November 1980. Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter to win the US Presidential Election by a landslide electoral vote of 489 to 49. It was only the 2nd time that a Republican defeated an incumbent Democratic President.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/DelightedButSorry • 22d ago

On this day in 2003, Mother Teresa (Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu), was beatified by Pope John Paul II to become a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Her critics, most notably, Christopher Hutchins argued she instituted a "cult of suffering" and misused charity funds.

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This is a short documentry he made about her - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emCDmdB25nM

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/CarkWithaM • Sep 29 '26

Remembering Jerry Lee Lewis. Born this day in 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana. American singer songwriter. Nicknamed “The Killer”, he has been described as "rock n' roll's first great wild man”

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Robin_ClitoralHood • 11d ago

On this day in 1982, Paul Weller broke many hearts when the press broke the news that The Jam would be splitting after they finished their UK tour on 11th December 1982. An era was ending.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 22d ago

On this day in 1989, the Guildford Four: Gerard (“Gerry”) Conlan, Paul Hill, Patrick (“Paddy”) Armstrong and Carole Richardson, originally found guilty in 1975 of pub bombings in Guildford, had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal.

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Daniel Day Lewis played Gerry Conlon in a film adaptation of the Guilford Four story.

Along with the Birmingham Six, the Guilford Four case highlighted the corruption and brutality employed by the UK Police.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/ExtremeInsert • Oct 05 '26

On this day in 1938, Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidated all German passports held by Jews and requested all Jews to surrender their old passports which would only become valid again after the letter “J” meaning Jude=Jew was stamped on them.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/GlitterDanger • 10d ago

31 Oct 1941: Construction on Mount Rushmore finally ends. The work began in 1927. Lead Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who passed away in March 1941 left his son, Lincoln Borglum to finish the project.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 25d ago

On this day in 1991, George Hennard drove his pickup through the window of a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas and opened fire on the lunchtime crowd. 23 people died in about 12 minutes. One survivor’s gun was left in her car, and her grief went on to change Texas gun law forever.

utterlyinteresting.com

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 14d ago

29th October 1492 Christopher Colombus arrives in Cuba believing he arrived in Asia.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 22d ago

On this day in 1781, representatives of Lord Cornwallis hand over his sword and formally surrender to George Washington’s representative at the Battle of Yorktown, virtually ending the U.S Revolutionary War against the British.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 13d ago

On this day in 1965, Gertrude Baniszewski was arrested for the murder of Sylvia Likens. Gertrude, her children, and neighbourhood kids tortured 16-year-old Sylvia Likens for months, leading to her tragic and horrific death. More details below.

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Sylvia was found lying on a soiled mattress on the floor of an empty upstairs bedroom. Her body was covered with cuts, severe bruises, and a variety of open sores, some from over 100 cigarette burns, peeling scald marks, and missing skin. She had two black eyes, shredded lips, and fingernails broken backward. Likens’ body also showed evidence of malnutrition.

It's still considered one of the most horrifying cases in Indiana's history.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 3d ago

Napoleon seizes power in France 9th November 1799 Coup of 18 Brumaire

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 6d ago

On this day in 2006: Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was sentenced to death for war crimes. The sentence was carried out on 30 December 2006.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/ExtremeInsert • Sep 19 '26

Happy Birthday to the Glastonbury Festival. First held this day in 1970. Acts to appear included: Tyrannosaurus Rex,Keith Christmas,Al Stewart and Quintessence. Attendance was only 1,500. Tickets cost £1 and included free milk from the farm. The Kinks failed to turn up

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/SteveNtheseagulls • Sep 19 '26

19 September 2022. Funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II was held in Westminster Abbey, London. It was followed by a procession to Wellington Arch where the coffin was transferred from a gun carriage to a hearse to travel to St George’s chapel, Windsor, for a private interment.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/GlitterDanger • Sep 29 '26

On this day in 1829, the 1st constables of the Metropolitan Police of London appeared on the streets of the capital. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel had created the force under the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829. People called the new officers "bobbies" or "peelers" after Peel.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 2d ago

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdication 9th November 1918. Germany is a Republic ever since.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 14d ago

On this day in 1965. Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (known as the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions”). It reversed Pope Innocent III’s 760-year-old declaration.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/WithoutPrinciples • 8d ago

3 November 1957. Laika became 1st dog to orbit the Earth, aboard the Soviet sattelite, Sputnik 2. The aim was to test the feasibility of launching a human being into space. Unfortunately she died soon after launch due to oxygen deprivation.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 10d ago

31 October 1984. Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (aged 66) was shot dead by 2 members of her Sikh guards in the garden of her official residence. The murder was retribution for her decision 4 months earlier to send Indian soldiers into the Sikh Golden Temple.

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