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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Today in History

680 - Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded hurricane.
1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
1957 - A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.

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