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France invaded Mexico to install an emperor over a debt dispute

The war in Afghanistan ran for two full decades before ending

Boston's King's Chapel became the first Unitarian church in the Americas

A Jesuit order once sold 272 enslaved people in a single deal

A Swedish crown princess married her own gym trainer

Julian Assange spent years inside an embassy to dodge extradition

A composer cast his own sister to premiere his opera King Roger

These royal coins ran from a £2 piece to a coin too small to spend at home

Lou Gehrig, the Iron Horse, won the Triple Crown and six titles

South Vietnam's air force chief rose to lead the whole country

The Beatles scored their 20th and final number one with a piano ballad

A corporate research lab was turned into a public university

The first modern baseball game ended in a 23-1 blowout

A Basque separatist car bomb killed 21 at a Barcelona store

The expedition that mapped America's unknown western half

An underdog known as Cinderella Man stunned boxing's champion

A leaked 7,000-page secret history exposed the Vietnam War's truth

One German tank ace wrecked 30 Allied vehicles in 15 minutes

The Falklands War was fought without either side declaring war

A polar ship chased a current that did not exist and was crushed by ice

A Canadian assault forced Germany back at the Battle of Mont Sorrel

The Vietnam War was a civil war, proxy war and war of liberation at once

Pioneer 10 became the first craft to leave the planets behind

A revered Shia shrine was bombed twice, toppling its dome then minarets

Syria's civil war ran almost 14 years after a 2011 protest movement

A 1971 midair collision over California killed all 50 on an airliner

Martin Luther's marriage launched the Protestant tradition of clergy weddings

A 2021 truck attack in Ontario killed four of one Muslim family

Henry VIII's flagship was the largest warship in the world

The War of 1812 dragged on for months after peace was agreed

A duchess held off a 1342 siege of her Breton port city

The plane crash that wiped out Sabah's top political leadership in 1976

Christchurch was hit by a second major quake just months after the first

A 1912 Alaska eruption was the 20th century's largest by far

The Manuscript That Sparked the Theory of Evolution

The Call to Resistance: De Gaulle's Defining Moment

Mariah Carey’s Nostalgic Waltz 'Forever'

The Rise of the Tang Dynasty

The Tragic Legacy of the Staines Air Disaster

A Macabre Masterpiece of Gothic Art

Napoleon’s Final 100 Days of Power

Sally Ride and the Legacy of Challenger

Prussia’s Strategic Triumph in the Silesian Wars

Remembering the Violence of The Troubles

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