#ThisDayInHistory Post 1389:
16 May 1888 (136 years ago): Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture describing the equipment which allowed efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power.
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May 16, 1945 - The Nazi sub, U-234, surrenders in New Hampshire. This sub was headed for Tokyo with 10 containers of uranium oxide. This captured material was used in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. #onthisday #thisdayinhistory #ushistory #ww2 #ww2 history
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د ۲۰۰۵ ز. کال د می پر شپاړلسمه د کویت پارلمان په ټاکنو کې د ښځو د ګډون قانون په ۳۵ موافقو، ۲۳ مخالفو او یوې ممتنع رایې تصویب کړ.
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Today in 1980 the @NYCDOT raised tolls on bridges and tunnels connecting NYC from 0.75 cents to $1.00 #ThisDayInHistory
Frank Sinatra emerged from Hoboken, New Jersey to become one of the most popular entertainers with a career that spanned more than five decades. When he died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1998, he left behind a catalog of hits like, “My Way,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” and “New York, New
امروز در تاریخ – در ۱۶ می سال ۲۰۰۵، پارلمان #کویت با ۳۵ رأی موافق، ۲۳ مخالف و يک رأی ممتنع، قانون شرکت #زنان در انتخابات را تصويب کرد.
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 330, Constantine the Great dedicated Byzantium as the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire renaming the city as Constantinople.
His decree would help transform it into the largest city in the empire and a major commercial center of the world.
#ThisDayInHistory Post 1388:
15 May 1618 (406 years ago): Johannes Kepler confirmed his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion.
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, Nazi thugs torched the books and papers of the Institute of Sexology in Berlin -- a pioneering centre for the study of homosexuality, transgenderism, and queer identities.
On #ThisDayInHistory 4 May 1649, was born the Hindu hero who fought & won 80 battles with Aurangzeb,
he was #MaharajaChhatrasal
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On 14th May 1944, the British troops along with Indian soldiers captured Kohima during World War II.
NAI presents a rare glimpse of the 33rd Ind Corps Administration's 'Order of Battle', dated 14th May 1944 from the collection of World War II diaries.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, 17 Eastern states begin gasoline rationing to help the war effort.
By the end of the year, mandatory gasoline rationing was in effect in all 48 states.
In a separate attempt to reduce gas consumption, the government implemented a compulsory wartime
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrated Victory in Europe Day on #ThisDayInHistory in 1945.
V-E Day celebrated the unconditional surrender of German forces to the Allies in World War II. history.com/news/v-e-day-a…
This day in bad drawings: 1878, the last witchcraft trail is held in Salem MA #history #ThisDayInHistory #witchcraft #Salem #Massachusetts