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  2. 3 days ago · Today is Wednesday, May 29, 2024. It’s the 150 th day of the year, and we’re on week 22. Every day is special for some reason, and today is no different! Here you’ll find some interesting facts & events that happened today in history, as well as The Fact Site’s Fact of the Day!

  3. Feb 3, 2023 · 125 Fun History Facts. 1. During World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal. She extinguished an incendiary bomb by peeing on it! 2. Alexander the Great was...

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    • Fun History Facts: Polish Soldiers Made A Bear Part Of Their Unit During World War II. One Polish unit in World War II had an unusual member — a Syrian brown bear named Wojtek.
    • Some 20,000 Confederates Fled To Brazil After The Civil War To Create A Kingdom Built On Slavery. After four bloody years of war, the Confederacy crumbled in April 1865.
    • Adolf Hitler And Much Of Germany Relied On Opioids And Meth To Fight World War II. “Germany awake!” the Nazis barked — and they meant it more than most people even knew.
    • One Loyal Dog Returned To The Same Train Station For A Decade As He Waited For His Deceased Owner To Return. Hachikō the dog and his owner had a routine.
    • Dictators together. In 1913 Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Tito all lived in Vienna for a couple of months.
    • Colonial background. The first British officer killed in World War One was an Englishman, born in India, in a Scottish regiment, commanding Senegalese troops in Togoland.
    • Record breaking vaccine. The record for a vaccine to be developed and licensed was four years. The record holder was the mumps vaccine which was licensed in 1967.
    • Absent monarch. Richard the Lionheart only spent six months of his ten-year reign in England.
  4. 1896. The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal." 1920. Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland. 1953. Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. 1974. India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power. 1980.

  5. 585. Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse. May 24. May 26. Today in History is everything that happened on this day in history—in the areas of politics, war, science, music, sport, art, entertainment, and more.