In 1870, MIT Admitted Ellen Swallow Richards as an "Unpaid Special Student" Because Women Weren't Officially Allowed to Enrol, Yet She Later Became MIT's First Female Instructor
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In 1945, villagers in Katsuyama, Okinawa killed three African American Marines accused of raping local women and buried them in a cave. The villagers kept it a secret for 52 years. By the time it was revealed, no one was charged because those involved had died and the statute of limitations expired
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In March 1973, New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich shocked the world by holding a press conference to announce they had traded their entire lives including wives, children, homes, and dogs. Kekich's new romance quickly ended, but Peterson and Susanne stayed together for decades.
u/Anxious-Presence-266 — 11 days ago
The Māori of New Zealand were considered to be be the most terrifying enemies the British ever encountered
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Arizona Governor Fife Symington III introduces his chief of staff, dressed as an alien, as “who was responsible” for the 1997 Phoenix Lights sightings. Ten years later, Symington said, “I don’t know why people would ridicule it… It just felt otherworldly.”
u/akiwi_intherough — 10 days ago
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Young Boy Dies After Being Shot By a Cow (1903)
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In 1961, isolated in Antarctica as the sole physician at a remote station, Soviet doctor Leonid Rogozov developed severe appendicitis. With no evacuation possible, he calmly performed a successful self-appendectomy using local anesthesia and a mirror, returning to normal duties just two weeks later.
u/Anxious-Presence-266 — 10 days ago
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Helmuth von Moltke was born in 1800. His voice survives on wax cylinders recorded in 1889
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