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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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106 |
King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine on January 21, 1793. |
History > Famous Dates |
01/08/09 |
|
107 |
King Louis XVIII was forced to sign the Constitutional Charter of 1814 by the Congress of Vienna in order to be restored to the throne of France. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
108 |
Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and leader, was born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870. |
History > European |
04/05/09 |
|
109 |
Louis Napoleon became the President of the Second Republic of France after an election in 1848. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
|
110 |
Louis XVIII and Charles X were brothers of Louis XVI, but both men died without an heir, which ended the Bourbon dynasty. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
111 |
Louis-Philippe of France was forced to abdicate the French throne after the February 1848 Revolution; he escaped to England and renamed himself "Mr. Smith". |
History > European |
02/08/09 |
|
112 |
Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812. |
History > United States |
10/15/08 |
|
113 |
Luddites often destroyed machines during the Industrial Revolution, for they felt the machines were leaving them without work. |
History > European |
02/11/09 |
|
114 |
Maine became a state on March 15, 1820. |
History > United States |
10/26/08 |
|
115 |
Marie Curie discovered the elements polonium and radium. |
History |
09/17/10 |
|
116 |
Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. |
History |
07/12/10 |
|
117 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. |
History > Famous Dates |
11/12/08 |
|
118 |
Maryland became a state on April 28, 1788. |
History > United States |
11/05/08 |
|
119 |
Massachusetts became a state on February 6, 1788. |
History > United States |
10/24/08 |
|
120 |
Merle Curti won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1944. |
History |
08/13/09 |
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