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1. 6th April 1917: The USA declares war on Germany in WW1

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2. 5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America

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3. 4th April 1841: US President William Henry Harrison dies 32 days after taking office, ending the shortest presidency in US history

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4. 3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford

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5. 2nd April 1877: Zazel performs the first recorded human cannonball act at the Royal Aquarium in London

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6. 1st April 1918: Royal Air Force formally established in the United Kingdom by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service

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7. 31st March 1889: The Eiffel Tower officially completed and inaugurated in Paris for the Exposition Universelle

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8. 30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

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9. 29th March 1973: The last regular American troops withdraw from South Vietnam

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10. 28th March 1979: British Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a vote of no confidence by a single vote

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11. 27th March 1963: Dr Richard Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, publishes his report to cut thousands of miles of railway lines

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12. 26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

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13. 25th March 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their first “Bed-In for Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam

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14. 24th March 1944: The ‘Great Escape’ takes place from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia

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15. 23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

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16. 22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

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17. 21st March 1871: Otto von Bismarck formally appointed first Chancellor of the German Empire

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18. 20th March 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte begins his Hundred Days as ruler of France following his escape from Elba

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19. 19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

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20. 18th March 1921: Kronstadt Rebellion ends following a final assault by Bolshevik forces

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