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1 day ago · 27 March 1931: The British novelist was dining in Paris with his partner, Dorothy. He drank two glasses of tap water during the meal, scoffing at Dorothy's claims that the water in Paris was not properly treated to be safe to drink. Within two days, he contracted typhoid fever and died two months later. Eben Byers: 31 March 1932
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1 day ago · Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE, Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli], Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...
- 23 January 1989 (aged 84), Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
19 hours ago · Goebbels used the death of Horst Wessel (pictured) in 1930 as a propaganda tool against "Communist subhumans". By 1930 Berlin was the party's second-strongest base of support after Munich. That year the violence between the Nazis and communists led to local SA troop leader Horst Wessel being shot by two members of the KPD.
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6 days ago · In 1931 Bhagat Singh was hanged for the murder of Officer J.P. Saunders in the city of Lahore (then in India). Saunders had been mistakenly killed as part of a plot to kill the police chief responsible for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, an influential Indian writer and politician.
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Mar 29, 2024 · (Mar. 29, 2024) (Show more) Holodomor. Dead child on the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine, during the Holodomor, photo by Alexander Wienerberger, 1933. (more) Holodomor, man-made famine that convulsed the Soviet republic of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, peaking in the late spring of 1933.
Apr 3, 2024 · Ad Reinhardt (born Dec. 24, 1913, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 30, 1967, New York, N.Y.) was an American painter who painted in several abstract styles and influenced the Minimalist artists of the 1960s. Reinhardt studied at Columbia University (1931–35) under the art historian Meyer Schapiro, and after graduation he studied at the ...
Mar 26, 2024 · The main causes of WWII were: The harsh Treaty of Versailles. The economic crisis of the 1930s. The rise of fascism. Germany's rearmament. The cult of Adolf Hitler. The policy of appeasement by Western powers. Treaties of mutual interest between Axis Powers. Lack of treaties between the Allies.