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When Caligula became the Roman emperor in 37 CE, replacing the hated Tiberius, the public welcomed his reign, and for a time it was uneventful. Seven months later, he fell severely ill, and when he recovered, he was a changed man. Suddenly, his reign was marked by financially ruinous extravagance, unmatched cruelty, and rampant executions, even of his former supporters. He was assassinated within a few years. what may have caused the mental instability Caligula displayed after his illness? More...
1988 - A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah
The war crime was in all likelihood executed on the orders of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein.
1988 - In Northern Ireland, an Ulster loyalist kills 3 people at a Provisional IRA funeral
[/size]Michael Stone was later convicted of the Milltown Cemetary attack, which was filmed by news crews.
1968 - U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam[b]
The 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre included many children and infants.
[b]1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho is premiered
The film starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is an all-time classic of the suspense movie genre.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket
The idea for this revolutionary rocket engine first appeared in a book by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Historic Trivia pick
On May 13, 1983, workers digging in a peat bog in Macclesfield, located in Cheshire, England, discovered a woman's skull. Local police had long suspected that Peter Reyn-Bardt, then 57, had murdered his wife, Malika, who was last seen in 1960. Convinced that they now had Malika's remains, detectives confronted Reyn-Bardt, who confessed to the murder. One month before the trial, however, experts from Oxford learned that the skull belonged to a woman who died in the third century A.D. Despite this development, Reyn-Bardt was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Caligula becomes Emperor of Rome
When Caligula became the Roman emperor in 37 CE, replacing the hated Tiberius, the public welcomed his reign, and for a time it was uneventful. Seven months later, he fell severely ill, and when he recovered, he was a changed man. Suddenly, his reign was marked by financially ruinous extravagance, unmatched cruelty, and rampant executions, even of his former supporters. He was assassinated within a few years. what may have caused the mental instability Caligula displayed after his illness? More...
1988 - A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah
The war crime was in all likelihood executed on the orders of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein.
1988 - In Northern Ireland, an Ulster loyalist kills 3 people at a Provisional IRA funeral
[/size]Michael Stone was later convicted of the Milltown Cemetary attack, which was filmed by news crews.
1968 - U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam[b]
The 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre included many children and infants.
[b]1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho is premiered
The film starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is an all-time classic of the suspense movie genre.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket
The idea for this revolutionary rocket engine first appeared in a book by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Historic Trivia pickOn May 13, 1983, workers digging in a peat bog in Macclesfield, located in Cheshire, England, discovered a woman's skull. Local police had long suspected that Peter Reyn-Bardt, then 57, had murdered his wife, Malika, who was last seen in 1960. Convinced that they now had Malika's remains, detectives confronted Reyn-Bardt, who confessed to the murder. One month before the trial, however, experts from Oxford learned that the skull belonged to a woman who died in the third century A.D. Despite this development, Reyn-Bardt was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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