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ON THIS DAY: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide (1945)

End of a regime in Berlin On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler died by suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, as Soviet forces...

ON THIS DAY: Act of Union creates Kingdom of Great Britain (1707)

In 1707, the English and Scottish Parliaments approved the Act of Union, a landmark political agreement that united the two kingdoms under a single...

ON THIS DAY: The flawed hero, Oskar Schindler is born (1908)

On 28 April 1908, Oskar Schindler was born in Zwittau, Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary and today Svitavy in the Czech Republic. History would...

ON THIS DAY: John Milton sells rights to ‘Paradise Lost’ for £10 (1667)

The English poet John Milton, already blind and living in relative poverty, agreed in 1667 to sell the publication rights of his epic poem...

ON THIS DAY: Avengers Endgame release (2019)

Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame premiered internationally on April 25, 2019, becoming an immediate global phenomenon and one of the most significant moments in modern...