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The American USS Shaw explodes in port at Pearl Harbour. (US Navy) On this day in 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the US Navy's Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. The attack - comprised of aerial bombardments on ships at port and the surrounding Army and Marines bases, as well concurrent attacks on US…
Ervin Zádor with members of his team, immediately after being punched by a Russian opponent. (VEOL) The scene: The Melbourne Olympics, 1956. Men from the USSR's water polo team face off against their Hungarian counterparts. They prepare for what seems like an ordinary match of water polo, but all is not as it seems. Mere…
French troops move on Fleury. (Wikimedia Commons) By late 1914, Verdun-sur-Meuse - a town on the Meuse river in Northeastern France - was surrounded on three sides by the German army. The lines of the Western Front bulged eastward around the town, and only La Route Sacrée, a medium-sized road, resupplied the French at Verdun.…
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