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The Cambodian Civil War ends in 1975, with Phnom Pneh falling to the Khmer Rouge, beginning a reign of terror that turned the country into the killing fields, and would lead to the death of close to 2 million in one of the worst ever genocides post WW2.
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The Cambodian Civil War ends in 1975, with Phnom Pneh falling to the Khmer Rouge, beginning a reign of terror that turned the country into the killing fields, and would lead to the death of close to 2 million in one of the worst ever genocides post WW2.

The Khmer Rouge was heavily backed by China, and they were finally overthrown by the Vietnam Army in 1979, bringing an end to a reign of terror, that devastated Cambodia and pushed it back by a decade or so.

Ironically it was the King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk, who was responsible for the Khmer Rouge's growth, when he allied with them after he was overthrown in a coup. It would soon turn out to be a Frankenstein that went beyond control, backed by China.

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u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 8 hours ago
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Remember Masada. Around 960 Jewish Sicarii defenders, led by Eleazar ben Yair, chose mass suicide over surrender to Roman forces under Flavius Silva during siege of Masada in 73 AD, marking the end of the First Jewish-Roman War.

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To date Israeli soldiers take an oath near the hill fortress " Masada shall never fail again". It's become part of their ethos. The fall of Masada also ended the first Jewish revolt against Rome, that resulted in destruction of Jerusalem.

Incidentally the term Sicario is connected to Masada in a way. The Sicarri were a band of Jewish extremists, in fact regarded as the first assasins, noted for their violent attacks on Roman Legions. The Sicarri were the one who took refuge in Masada and held out.

Sicarri were so named after the small daggers they hid in their cloaks and which they used to assassinate Roman officials, soldiers. Sicario was derived from this to indicate the hitmen of the Latin American drug cartels.

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u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 1 day ago
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Remember Masada. Around 960 Jewish Sicarii defenders, led by Eleazar ben Yair, chose mass suicide over surrender to Roman forces under Flavius Silva during siege of Masada in 73 AD, marking the end of the First Jewish-Roman War.

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To date Israeli soldiers take an oath near the hill fortress " Masada shall never fail again". It's become part of their ethos. The fall of Masada also ended the first Jewish revolt against Rome, that resulted in destruction of Jerusalem.

Incidentally the term Sicario is connected to Masada in a way. The Sicarri were a band of Jewish extremists, in fact regarded as the first assasins, noted for their violent attacks on Roman Legions. The Sicarri were the one who took refuge in Masada and held out.

Sicarri were so named after the small daggers they hid in their cloaks and which they used to assassinate Roman officials, soldiers. Sicario was derived from this to indicate the hitmen of the Latin American drug cartels.

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u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 1 day ago
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Teddy Roosevelt created the Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah, not far from the Four Corners in 1908. There are three bridges in the park Kachina, Owachomo and Sipapu, composed of white sandstone eroded by the forces of running water, rain, and wind.

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u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 1 day ago
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Boston Arena, the oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still in use opens for the first time in 1910. Now called Matthews Arena and owned by Northeastern University.

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u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 1 day ago
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Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel in 1912. She was also the first American lady to get a pilot's license.

Quimby died at age 37 in a 1912 plane crash but left a lasting legacy inspiring later women aviators through her achievements in what was a male dominated field then.

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u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 1 day ago
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German, Italian forces attack Tobruk during the siege in 1941, with Luftwaffe flying 959 sorties, as Ju 87s bombed the defences , destroying a heavy anti aircraft battery.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 3 days ago
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Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford Theater, 1865 by John Wilke's Booth, while watching a play Our American Cousin. He was shot from behind with a small sized hand gun, and would die the next day of his wounds. Booth escaped initially but was later ambushed and shot dead.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 3 days ago
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The first ever abolition society in US,. the Pennsylvania Abolition Society is founded in 1775 in Philadelphia, initially called the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, organized with involvement from Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 3 days ago
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Timur defeats the leader of the Golden Horde, Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Terek River in 1395, as the Golden Horde disintegrates, with it's own internal conflicts.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 3 days ago
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Nazi Germany announces discovery of mass graves of Polish POW's in 1943 killed by Soviet Forces at Katyn Forest in 1940, leading to a diplomatic rift between Polish govt in exile and Soviet Union.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated to the nation in 1943 by President F.D.Roosevelt to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of the author of the Declaration of Independence.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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CIA director Allan Foster Dulles launches Project MKUltra in 1953, a series of experiments on humans to develop mind control procedures using drugs like LSD, that could force confessions through brainwashing and mental torture.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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The Transit 1-B satellite is launched by the US in 1960, the world's first ever operational satellite navigation system,designed for the US Navy, it enabled precise positioning of Polaris ballistic missile submarines through Doppler shift measurements from low Earth orbit passes.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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Sidney Poitier becomes the first Black Actor to win Oscar for Best Actor in 1963 for Lilies of the Field, for his role of Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field, a handyman, jack of all trades kind, who helps a group of nuns from Eastern Europe build a chapel, and his bonding with them.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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The Battle of An Lộc begins in 1972, during the Vietnam War, as the South Vietnamese-US forces halted the advance of the Viet Cong towards Saigon, due to extensive air bombing by American airforce, in one bloody battle that saw close to 12,000 killed.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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Over 150 Black militia are killed by a mob of former Confederate Soldiers and KKK members at Colfax, Louisiana in 1873. This happened when they were surrendering to the mob, one of the worst racial massacres ever, only three whites died in the fighting that involved a cannon assault on the building.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art nicknamed the Met is founded in New York in 1870 by American businessmen, artists, and philanthropists aimed at creating a public art institution, with the museum opening to visitors in 1872.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 4 days ago
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The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson one week after the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 6 days ago
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Apollo 13 is launched in 1970 commanded by Jim Lowell, Jack Swigert as CM Pilot, Fred Haise as LM Pilot. However the lunar landing would have to be aborted due to the failure of an oxygen tank in the Service Module.

u/LoneWolfKaAdda — 6 days ago