History On this day

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

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Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• The ancient Chinese general whose calm during surgery is still told of today

• Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

• 1994, A Poem

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Monday - April 21st

• When the Terracotta Army came to Hong Kong

• 70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows

• Tradition forged in fire: Inside Santa Clara del Cobre’s copper artisan studios

 

Tuesday - April 22nd

• ​3,000-Year-Old Necropolis Unearthed in Abu Dhabi

 

Wednesday - April 23rd

• Australia once had giant kangaroos — here's what experts think happened to them

• Relics from ancient Qin, Han dynasties on display in Hong Kong

• Lion Bite to the Butt May Be First Proof of Human-Animal Gladiatorial Combat

 

Thursday - April 24th

• How the WWI 'rejects' refused to be cast aside

• Intelligence gathering in Geraldton 80 years on from WWII

• Bunbury soldier's extraordinary bravery during World War I remembered

• Rare, tiny 'left-handed' seashell found at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

• The Nazis extorted Jewish families’ silver. Their descendants gathered in Munich to memorialize them.

• Eat, prey, eat: fossil find in China reveals unusual dinosaur-mammal food chain

• Photos of a herd of wild horses with origins in the 14th century still roaming the German countryside

• Elite 5,000 year-old woman's tomb unearthed in coastal Peru

• Ancient Egyptian Prince’s Tomb Discovered at Saqqara

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Friday - April 25th

• 8yo girl makes 'astounding' discovery of tiny, rare seashell at museum

• The end of the Vietnam War was also a turning point for protest songs

• Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry

• Oldest-known ant preserved in 113 million-year-old Brazilian fossil

• Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead prey

• Mammoths, horses and camels: Anonymous tip leads scientists to a fossil bed in Tamaulipas

• From boom to bust and back: Tijuana’s complex history with the US