| (1838) Victorian Era officially begins with the coronation of a queen
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One year and eight days after an 18-year old Alexandrina Victoria is told that her uncle, King William IV has died, she is crowned Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey after a procession through London witnessed by a crowd of 400,000. . |
| (1880) Australian outlaw captured after pitched battle with police
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| Bushranger Ned Kelly is wanted for crimes committed during a 2-year outlaw spree, but he’s not going without a fight. Kitted out in homemade armor and helmet, Kelly and his gang take on the police during a siege in the settlement of Glenrowan. The law wins, but Kelly will endure as an Australian icon.. |
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| (1914) A 19-year-old assassin pulls the trigger that starts WWI
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Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip sees Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in a procession of stalled cars near his Sarajevo café, and he approaches and shoots the couple at point blank range. Their deaths will cause a rapid disintegration of European unity, provoking World War I. . |
| (1969) Gay Rights Movement begins at the Stonewall Inn
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| Patrons of a Greenwich Village gay bar have had enough of police harassment and they fight back when another raid begins at the Stonewall Inn. The ensuing riot and uprising will galvanize the gay community across America and be marked as the start of the gay civil rights movement.. |
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