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4 days ago · Amelia Mary Earhart ( / ˈɛərhɑːrt / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
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On July 9, as she and Jordan were flying over Howland Island...
- Howland Island
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- George P. Putnam
George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887 – January 4, 1950)...
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Apr 13, 2024 · Nanjing Massacre, (December 1937–January 1938), mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on December 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II.
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- When did the Nanjing Massacre take place?The Nanjing Massacre, also called Rape of Nanjing (December 1937–January 1938), was the mass killing and the ravaging of Chinese citizens and capit...
- How many people were killed during the Nanjing Massacre?Estimates of the number of Chinese killed in the Nanjing Massacre range from 100,000 to more than 300,000.
- Who ordered the Nanjing Massacre?The destruction of Nanjing was ordered by Matsui Iwane, commanding general of the Japanese Central China Front Army. Japanese soldiers carried out...
- What happened to Matsui Iwane and Tani Hisao?Shortly after the end of World War II, Matsui Iwane and Tani Hisao, a lieutenant general who had personally participated in acts of murder and rape...
2 days ago · Great Purge. This article is about the 1936–1938 Soviet purge. For political purges in general, see Purge. For the period of the French Revolution, see Reign of Terror. For other uses, see Great Terror (disambiguation). Part of a series on the. History of the Soviet Union. Background. 1917–1927: Establishment. 1927–1953: Stalinism.
- 1936–1938
- 700,000 to 1.2 million, (higher estimates overlap with at least 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system)
2 days ago · In February 1937, over 7,000 were killed after the capture of Málaga. When Bilbao was conquered, thousands of people were sent to prison. There were fewer executions than usual, however, because of the effect Guernica left on Nationalists' reputations internationally.
- 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939, (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
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1 day ago · The recession of 1937–1938, which slowed down economic recovery from the Great Depression, is explained by fears of the population that the moderate tightening of the monetary and fiscal policy in 1937 were first steps to a restoration of the pre-1933 policy regime.
4 days ago · The first attack was on 11 November 1937, killing two Arabs at the bus depot near Jaffa Street in Jerusalem and then on 14 November, a day later commemorated as the "Day of the Breaking of the Havlagah (restraint)," Arabs were killed in simultaneous attacks around Palestine.
1 day ago · Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937. In July 1937, Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Peking after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge incident, which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China.
