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The Wall opened on the night of 9 November 1989 after a botched press announcement drew crowds to checkpoints, and guards at Bornholmer Strasse let people through without orders.
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In late 1932 the Australian Army used machine guns against emus damaging Western Australian wheat farms. The cull was largely ineffective and was called off.
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The Radium Girls were US factory women who were poisoned by radium paint while painting watch dials in the 1910s and 1920s. Their lawsuits helped shape workplace safety standards.
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The Pig War was a standoff between the US and Britain over the San Juan Islands, sparked by an American shooting a pig. No humans died, and the islands became American in 1872.
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Yamaguchi was a Japanese engineer who was in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki on 9 August. Japan officially recognized him in 2009 as the only person to survive both.
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The Great Stink was a summer 1858 episode in which hot weather worsened the stench of sewage on the Thames. It pushed Parliament to fund Bazalgette's new sewer system.
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Operation Mincemeat was a 1943 British deception in which a corpse carrying forged papers was left off Spain to convince Germany the Allies would not invade Sicily first.
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A driver's wrong turn put Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car in front of Gavrilo Princip on 28 June 1914, but it was one link in a longer chain of events.
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The code combined a letter-by-letter substitution system using Navajo words for English letters with Navajo terms for hundreds of military concepts, all memorized and sent by voice.
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