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Senator Alben W. Barkley, investigating Nazi atrocities, looks at a pile of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp. The bodies had been left out in the sun and rain for almost two weeks after the liberation of Buchenwald #OTD April 11, 1945. (Joel Bellviure / mediadrumworld)

24 Apr 1898: #Spain declares war on the United States following rising tensions over Cuba, formally beginning the Spanish-American War, which would quickly shift global power toward the United States after their swift victory. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/4t2SeGl

#OTD in 1898, Andy Cooper was born in Waco, TX. Considered one of the best pitchers of the 1920s, he spent his early career with the Detroit Stars. He went on to manage the Monarchs to three pennants between 1937 and 1940. Here’s a color study of him with Kansas City in 1935.

24 Apr 1066: Halley's Comet becomes visible in #England, a fateful time follows #otd

Just beginning his historic fourth term as President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died #OTD in 1945 of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Leading the nation through the Great Depression & WWII, FDR was one of the most transformative presidents in our history. He is remembered at the

Book #OTD Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics: Exploring Structure and Randomness book hp including PDF draft: yufeizhao.com/gtacbook/ publisher: cambridge.org/core/books/gra…

20 April 1918: World War I German ace Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th enemy aircraft. He would be shot down and killed the nex day on April 21. #WWI #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2yuyRQU Please support URDailyHistory by clicking on

#OTD April 24, 387: Augustine of Hippo was baptized by Bishop Ambrose in Milan on Easter Sunday. A brilliant teacher of rhetoric and philosophy, Augustine had long wrestled with truth and sin. Through the faithful prayers of his mother Monica and the powerful preaching of

'A sign such as men never saw before was seen in the heavens’ #OTD in 1066, and remained for at least seven nights. It was Halley’s Comet on one of its periodic visitations. Chronicler William of Jumièges wrote, ‘Many people said it portended a change in some kingdom.’

1889. #OTD Chekhov ✍️ to brother: “Brevity is the sister of talent”. #Less IS #Best. #LearnRussian

#OnThisDay in 1731, Daniel Defoe passed away due to "lethargy". J. H. Pearl looks at the power of utopias, particularly in Defoe's Crusoe novels, to disrupt our surrender to orthodoxy: publicdomainreview.org/essay/defoe-an… #otd

The British Library announced it had acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel for the nation #OTD in 2012, following a successful fundraising appeal. An 8thC manuscript copy of the Gospel of St John, it is the earliest surviving intact European book. 📸British Library

Rare photo of Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 lying in state (NYC) Abraham Lincoln died #OTD 1865 #POTUS 💔

#Otd 1916: Irish tricolour flag raised above Dublin's GPO by Gearóid O'Sullivan. Eamon Bulfin raised Irish Republic flag. Theobald Wolfe Tone Fitzgerald painted it in home of Constance Markievicz. irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i… microsites.museum.ie/1916objectstor…

#Otd 1916: About 1,250 volunteers of IRB, Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Army & Cumann na mBan took over positions in central Dublin, launching 6-day long revolution known as the Easter Rising! 12:04, Patrick Pearse read out Proclamation of Independence after seizing the G.P.O..

#OTD 1948 - Stan Musial slashes his 1000th career hit - an RBI triple in Chicago against the Cubs. What a great photo - Stan's smile, the shaving cream used on the mirror and the railroad poster in the background! #STLCards

The Furness Hoard was discovered by a detectorist in a field near Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, #OTD in 2011. The Viking-Age collection comprises 79 coins, 22 of which are fragments, and 13 silver ingot fragments. 📸The Dock Museum

#OTD in 1783 Empress Catherine II signed Manifesto bringing Crimea, Taman & Kuban into Russian Empire, a key milestone of the Russia's southern regions development. 🇷🇺 Russia founded: • Zaporozhye — 1770 • Kherson — 1778 • Mariupol — 1778 • Nikolayev — 1789 • Odessa — 1794

Thomas Jefferson was born on #OTD in 1743. As the author of the Declaration of Independence and serving two terms as President, Jefferson stands as one of our country's most iconic founders. He is honored by the Jefferson Memorial on the Tidal Basin. Stop by the learn more about

18 April 1906: At 5:12 am, an estimated 7.9 magnitude #earthquake destroyed 80% of San Francisco, California and killed some 2,500 people. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3ewRq7q