On This Day In History | |
1933: Opening of the Nazis' first concentration camp On this day in 1933, soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau, where at least 32,000 people would die from disease, malnutrition, physical oppression, and execution. | |
Roll call of Roma (Gypsy) prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany | |
Biography Of The Day | |
Kim Campbell Progressive Conservative Kim Campbell, who became Canada's first woman prime minister and its first leader from the West Coast when she succeeded Brian Mulroney in 1993, was born this day in 1947 in British Columbia. | |
Kim Campbell | |
More Events On This Day In History | |
1913 | 1913 In Toledo, Ohio, William Knox became the first bowler to make a perfect score of 300 in an American Bowling Congress tournament. |
1903 | 1903 American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa. |
1876 Alexander Graham Bell's "liquid" transmitter design permitted the first transmission of speech by Bell to his assistant, Thomas Watson. | |
1864 | 1864 The Red River Campaign began in the American Civil War. |
1793 In Paris, on the proposal of Georges Danton, the National Convention decreed the establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal. |
Monday, March 10, 2008
March 10
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