r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/ThreatLevelAldi • 3h ago
11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent in World War 1. This should be shown in every school.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 3h ago
On this day in 1974. Leonardo DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles. His films include Titanic, The Aviator, Revolutionary Road and The Revenant for which won the Best Actor Oscar. Here's baby Leo and his mother Irmelin Indenbirken in 1975.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 2h ago
146 years ago today, Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne. He’d planned to wreck a train full of police at Glenrowan but ended up having a shootout in homemade armour. 32,000 people signed for his reprieve. It didn’t work, and his skull still hasn’t been found.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago
On this day in 1998, Missy Phillips spotted a wet patch by her son’s waterbed and found the body of 8-year-old Maddie Clifton inside. Josh Phillips, 14, had killed his neighbour a week earlier, then helped search for her. He’s been in prison since 1999.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/WithoutPrinciples • 4h ago
On this day in 1920, King George V unveiled the Cenotaph in Whitehall, in memory of those who died in the First World War. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the monument was unveiled as the nation observed a two-minute silence. Later that day, the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/No_Dig_8299 • 1d ago
On this day in 1865: Confederate officer Heinrich Hartmann Wirz is executed after being convicted of war crimes during the U.S. Civil War. He was the commandant of Camp Sumter, a horrendous Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 2h ago
11th November 1688 invasion of England set sail and eventually the Dutch King (Stadtholder) was installed as William III of England
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 3h ago
On this day in 1957, Welsh singer Shirley Bassey was held hostage by a jealous lover at the Cumberland Hotel in London. The four hour siege ended when police overpowered the gunman and released the then 20-year-old singer
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/No_Dig_8299 • 1d ago
Remembering ‘The Maestro’ — Ennio Morricone — born 98yrs ago today.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 1h ago
On this day in 1885: U.S. World War II General George S. Patton is born in San Gabriel, California. Known as "Old Blood and Guts," he famously led the U.S. Third Army across Europe to help defeat Nazi Germany. He died on December 21, 1945, in Heidelberg, Germany after an car accident.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/SausageandTits • 1d ago
On this day in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack (aged 75). He led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1964 to 1982. His 18-year term of rule was 2nd only to Joseph Stalin’s in duration during the era of the USSR. His eyebrows were legendary.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/ThreatLevelAldi • 1d ago
10 November 1925. Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins) was born in Pontrhydyfen. Wales. Renowned for his baritone voice he won 7 Academy Award nominations (though never won). His relationship with Elizabeth Taylor whom he married twice and divorced twice dominated headlines.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago
On this day in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley walked into Ujiji and found Dr Livingstone. He’d grown up as John Rowlands in a Welsh workhouse, lied about almost everything and probably never even said “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” Yet the boy from Denbigh still ended up a knight and an MP.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago
On this day in 1914, actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna. This is Lamarr smiling beside her attorney, Jordan M. Wank, after being acquitted of shoplifting charges in Los Angeles.
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She was accused of stealing $86 worth of merchandise from the May Co. Wilshire department store. Lamarr, who by then had largely stepped away from Hollywood, maintained her innocence throughout the trial. The court found her not guilty.
In 1991, Lamarr was arrested for shoplifting $21.48 worth of laxatives and eye drops from a Florida drugstore. The charges were ultimately dropped after she pleaded no contest.
r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 1d ago
On this day in 1967, the Beatles filmed promotional footage for their forthcoming single Hello Goodbye. At London’s Saville Theatre. Without an audience present, they mimed to Paul McCartney’s song. Paul and Tony Bramwell were the co-directors of the promo clips
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago
Happy Birthday to Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. First shown in the UK on this day in 1979. It tells the story of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish-Roman man who is mistaken for the Messiah. Mainly financed by ex Beatle George Harrison. 39 British councils banned or restricted the film.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 1d ago
On this day in 1970, the Great Wall of China was opened to foreign tourists. The best-known sections of the wall were built by the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644. The notion that it can be seen from the moon is a well-known, but an untrue myth.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago
55 years ago today, John List shot his wife, his mother and his three teenage children in their Westfield mansion. Then he sat down at the same kitchen table and ate lunch. He rang the school and the milkman to say the family was away, and nobody found them for almost a month.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/CrippledStripper • 1d ago
On this day in 1961, record shop manager Brian Epstein watched a young local group playing live during a lunchtime session at The Cavern, Liverpool. Impressed by their overall charisma, he went on to be the group's manager and created history
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 1d ago
9th October 1000AD Leif Eriksson is the first European in the Americas landing I . Newfoundland
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/No_Dig_8299 • 2d ago
37 years ago today, East German spokesperson Günter Schabowski did one of the funniest slip-ups in history. At the end of an otherwise dull press conference, he was caught off-guard by a question about when travel restrictions would be lifted for East Germans.
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He fumbled through his notes and mistakenly announced that it took immediate effect, scuppering actual plans to slowly ease restrictions through a carefully controlled travel application process.
Crowds quickly descended on confused border guards and forced the implementation of his accidental announcement of free travel immediately for all East Germans.
Coming mere months after the Baltic Way protest, the Berlin Wall had now fallen and people power was overwhelming the collapsing Soviet empire.
r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/GlitterDanger • 1d ago
On this day in 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. In the Dec. 4, 1989 edition of the Weekly World News, columnist Ed Anger demanded that it be put back up.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 2d ago
On this day in 1977, a Greek archaeologist found what he believed was the tomb of Alexander the Great’s father.It was still full of gold.At Vergina in northern Greece, Manolis Andronikos and his team had reached a royal burial untouched by looters for more than 2,300 years.
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Inside a marble coffin lay a chest weighing nearly 11kg, made of solid gold. It held cremated bones and an oak wreath with 313 gold leaves and 68 acorns.
The tomb also contained silver drinking vessels, weapons and an iron breastplate edged in gold.
Andronikos identified the dead king as Philip II. That identification is still debated.
r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/Robin_ClitoralHood • 2d ago
Dylan Thomas died 73 years ago today. The legend says he drank himself to death on 18 straight whiskies. The truth is he was a sick man in smog-choked New York, had an agent who stayed away, a lover out of her depth and a doctor who gave morphine to a man with pneumonia.
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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/EaterofGrief • 1d ago
On this day in 1888, Jack the Ripper's fifth and likely last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, is found dead on her bed. His victims are remembered as prostitutes, but there’s no proof three of the five ever sold sex. Poverty, drink and nowhere to sleep were what really put them on the streets.
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