… in 1558 Queen Elizabeth I of England ascended the throne. She was the fifth and last Tudor monarch and reigned for forty-five years.
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On This Day…
… in 1938 Nazi party officials and SA paramilitary forces took to the streets of Germany to ransack, raid and demolish thousands of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues.
On This Day…
…in 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
Contrary to the premise of the 2012 film ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’, the 16th US President did not, in fact, hunt vampires.
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