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Salvatore Riina: Chief of the Sicilian Mafia
Salvatore Riina: Chief of the Sicilian Mafia
Salvatore “Totò” Riina (16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017) was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities.
He was also known by the…
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The Maccabean Revolt: Ancient Times
The Maccabean Revolt: Ancient Times
The Maccabean Revolt was a Jewish rebellion, lasting from 167 to 160 BCE, led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and the Hellenistic influence on Jewish life. Timeline
In the narrative of I Maccabees, after Antiochus IV issued his decrees forbidding Jewish religious practice, a rural Jewish priest from Modiin, Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by…
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Operation Acid Gambit: Historical Events
Operation Acid Gambit: Historical Events
Operation Acid Gambit was a Delta Force operation to retrieve Kurt Muse, an American civilian living in Panama, from the Cárcel Modelo, a notorious prison in Panama City. Background of the Operation Acid Gambit
Muse had been arrested in 1989 for setting up covert anti-Noriega radio transmissions in Panama.
The raid, conducted by 23 Delta Force operators and supported by the Night Stalkers, was…
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Shippingport Atomic Power Station: Historical Events
Shippingport Atomic Power Station: Historical Events
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was (according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses.
It was located near the present-day Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) from Pittsburgh.
The reactor reached…
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The Powhatan Attack of 1622: Historical Events
The Powhatan Attack of 1622: Historical Events
Powhatan attack of 1622 popularly known as the Jamestown massacre took place in the English Colony of Virginia, in what is now the United States, on Friday, 22 March 1622.
John Smith, though he had not been in Virginia since 1609 and was not an eyewitness, related in his History of Virginia that braves of the Powhatan “came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other…
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The Battle of Noryang: Historical Events
The Battle of Noryang: Historical Events
The Battle of Noryang, the last major battle of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), was fought between the Japanese navy and the combined fleets of the Joseon Kingdom and the Ming dynasty.
The Battle of Noryang took place in the early morning of 16 December (19 November in the Lunar calendar) 1598 and ended past dawn.
The allied force of about 150 Joseon and Ming Chinese ships, led by…
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The Ensisheim Meteorite: Oldest Meteorite
The Ensisheim Meteorite: Oldest Meteorite
The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492, in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Austria (now France).
The meteorite can still be seen in Ensisheim’s museum, the sixteenth-century Musée de la Régence.
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The meteorite is an LL6 ordinary chondrite, weighing 127 kilograms(280 lb); it was described as triangular in…
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St. Lucia's Flood: Historical Events
St. Lucia’s Flood: Historical Events
St. Lucia’s Flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany on 14 December 1287, the day after St. Lucia Day, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in one of the largest floods in recorded history.
Meteorologically this disaster was similar to the North Sea floodof 1953 when an extreme low-pressure system coinciding with a high tide caused a…
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The Battle of Morat: Medieval Wars
The Battle of Morat: Medieval Wars
The Battle of Morat (also known as the Battle of Murten) was a battle in the Burgundian Wars (1474–77) that was fought on 22 June 1476 between Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, and a Swiss Confederate army at Morat/Murten, about 30 kilometers from Bern.
The result of the Battle of Morat was a crushing defeat for the Burgundians at the hands of the Swiss.
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The Battle of Tippecanoe: Historical Events
The Battle of Tippecanoe: Historical Events
The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Indian forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa (commonly known as “The Prophet”), leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who opposed settlement of the American West.
As tensions and…
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Samuel Colt: American Inventor and Businessman
Samuel Colt: American Inventor and Businessman
Samuel Colt ( July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, businessman, and hunter. He initiated Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt’s Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of revolvers viable commercially.
Colt’s first two business ventures were producing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey and making underwater mines; both ended in…
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