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1620 matches to Shot Heard Around the World
Shot Heard Around the World. 1775. Battle of Lexington and Concord beginning American Revolution.
Booth, John Wilkes. 1838-65. US actor. Shot Lincoln, 1865.
Bukharin, Nikolay. 1888-1938. Russian Bolshevik. Shot in Stalin’s Purge. Rehabilitated 1988.
Cheever, John. 1912-82. US writer of middle-class America. Wapshot Chronicle 1957.
Long, Huey. 1893-1935. US demagogic Louisiana governor. 1928-31, US Senator 1931-5. Share the Wealth. Shot.
Mussolini, Benito. Il Duce. 1883-1945. Italian Fascist dictator 1922-. Seized Abyssinia 1935. Allied with Germany WWII. Shot.
Ney, Michel. 1769-1815. Marshal under Napoleon. Shot after second Restoration. “Bravest of the brave”-Napoleon.
Nicholas II. 1868-1918. Last Russian Czar 1894-. Russo-Japanese War 1904. 1905 Revolution. Duma. Shot during 1917 revolution.
Paris. Son of Priam. Carried Helen back to Troy, starting the Trojan Wars. Shot Achilles. Judged first beauty contest.
Tell, William. 13-14C/Legendary Swiss hero of Altdorf. Shot apple off son’s head on orders of Austrian governor, Gessler.
U-2 Incident. 1960. US spy plane shot down over USSR. Summit cancelled. Pilot Powers traded for Russian spy Abel 1962.
Wallace, George. 1919-98. Alabama segregationist governor, presidential candidate. Shot 1972.
Krakatoa. 1883. Volcanic eruption heard 2200 miles away. 120 ft tidal wave.
Attica. Region around Athens in ancient Greece.
Aurelian. 214-75. Roman Emperor 270-. Restored rule of Europe. Began wall around Rome.
Charles V, the Wise. 1338-80. King of France 1364-. New rampart around Paris.
Copernicus, Nicolaus. 1473-1543. Polish astronomer, who demonstrated planetary motion around sun 1528. De Revolutionibus. Aristarchus. Galileo.
Diaz, Bartolomeu. c1450-1500. Portuguese. First to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/8.
Drake, Francis. 1540-96. English pirate/explorer. Sailed around the world 1580. Vice Admiral at defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588. Privateers.
Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.
Hipparchus. c190-120BC. First star catalogue. Epicyclic planetary motion around earth. Astrolabe 130.
Necho. -595BC. Egyptian pharaoh 610-. Aided Assyria vs Babylonians. Expedition sailed around Africa.
Northwest Passage. Attempts 1497- to find a sea route around Canada to Asia. Amundsen succeeded 1903-6. McClure 1853.
Philippe Auguste Wall. 1210. First defensive wall around Paris.
Plague. 429-425BC Athens. 33% died. 1347-53 Europe. (Black Death). Killed 25-50% population. 1603~65 England. 1720 Provençe. 1710 Scandinavia. 1894 China, Hong Kong. 100,000 died, 10M around world.