#OnTHisDay

#OnThisDay 75 yrs ago,Nagasaki became the 2nd city to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon.And since even their government took almost an entire day to realise that Hiroshima had been
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#OnThisDay 1994 Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of the murder of the NAACP's first Field Secretary, Medgar Evers. Evers was murdered in front of his Jackson, MS home.Who
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Thread: At the precise moment when Monty Noble was being born in Sydney’s Haymarket, #onthisday 1873, a military band passed by playing loud music as if to herald his arrival
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Thread: 170 wickets at 25.91, with a miserly economy rate of 1.94. Often unplayable, mostly unhittable.The greatest off-spinner the #cricket world has seen alongside Jim Laker. Hugh Tayfield was born
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#OnThisDay Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) was incorporated in 1953 by the Government of India as a machine tool manufacturing company. A watch division came up in Bengaluru in 1961. A
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#OnThisDay December 6, 1990 "Bart the Daredevil" first aired on the Fox network. Dir: Wes Archer. Wr: @JayKogen & Wallace Wolodarsky. EP: @canyonjim @simonsam & Matt Groening. The character Lance
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Thread: When a batsman edged too often, Fred Trueman (born 6 Feb 1931) remarked “You’ve got more edges than a broken piss pot.” Or sometimes he threw a question: “Where
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#OnThisDay 1963 US Senate candidate and Mayor of Charlotte, NC Harvey Gantt enrolled at Clemson University in South Carolina, the LAST state in the south to integrate.Of course there's more!
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On the 21st of August, 1933 Goliardo Fiaschi was born in Carrara, #Italy. A quarry labourer, he joined the resistance aged 13. After WW2 he joined the #Spanish resistance, suffering
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#OnThisDay in 2004, India came out victorious by 13 runs (which seemed like 130 runs on this pitch) in an engaging see-saw battle on a Wankhede wicket, where the SG
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#OnThisDay 6 years ago a Malaysian flight #MH17 carrying 298 people was destroyed over E. UkraineCoup regime in Kiev kept the sky over the active military conflict open, even though
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The Primo was the first vessel of considerable tonnage to make use of the Suez Canal #OnThisDay in 1867. Here is a #funwithfundas of some Suez Canal facts. Also, what's
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During my leave I’ve really enjoyed reading about the inspiring women trailblazers in statistics who paved the way for us. Here are some of my favourite quotes in chronological order.
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Thread: He had been gifted with a mighty side for most of his reign. But, few can deny that Graeme Smith (born #onthisday 1981) stood like a #cricket colossus in
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Thread: "Arthur Mailey (born 3 Jan 1886) had something of Huckleberry Finn about him, stopping along the high roads of adventure quite often to exchange laughter and lend a helping
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#OnThisDay in 2015 @Tyson_Fury dominated and humiliated Klitschko to become the new lineal champ. The fight was one of the most impeccable heavyweight performances in decades, and was absolutely spectacular
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