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Today in History
| 1743 | By the Treaty of Abo, Sweden cedes southeast Finland to Russia, ending Sweden’s failed war with Russia. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army defeats the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian retreat to Moscow. | |
| 1833 | The first steam ship to cross the Atlantic entirely on its own power, the Canadian ship Royal William, begins her journey from Nova Scotia to The Isle of Wight. | |
| 1863 | Union gunboats attack Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first time. | |
| 1942 | Marine Raiders attack Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands from two submarines. | |
| 1943 | Allied forces complete the conquest of Sicily. | |
| 1944 | The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city. | |
| 1945 | Upon hearing confirmation that Japan has surrendered, Sukarno proclaims Indonesia’s independence. | |
| 1960 | American Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial for spying over the Soviet Union in a U-2 plane. | |
| 1978 | Three Americans complete the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon. | |
| 1987 | 93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Adolf Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison. | |
| 1988 | Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq is killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination. | |
| 1998 | President Bill Clinton admits to the American public that he had affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. | |
| 1999 | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Izmit, Turkey kills over 17,000 and injures nearly 45,000. | |
| 2005 | Israel begins the first forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of a unilateral disengagement plan. | |
| 2012 | Moscow’s top court upholds a ban of gay pride events in Russia’s capital city for 100 years. |
Total solar eclipses of the past and future
How the threat of war affects our mental health
Anonymous declares war on the alt-right
NC Woman Confronts Her Neighbor For Flying Nazi Flag
Neo-Nazi chased from community pool
‘Daily Stormer’ website sending Nazis to harass funeral of woman killed by white supremacist in Charlottesville
Neo-Nazi group moves to 'Dark Web' after website goes down
GoDaddy Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google canceled Daily Stormer’s Internet registration on Monday, saying the group had violated terms of service, which prohibit clients from using their sites to incite violence.
Man who exposed Charlottesville racists receives death threats
In an interview with the News and Observer, Smith said that white nationalists have gone after both him and his family ever since he started trying to identify white nationalists who were photographed at the Charlottesville demonstration.
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