The Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka was burnt down during a violent rampage by an organised mob of ethnic Sinhalese.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka was burnt down during a violent rampage by an organised mob of ethnic Sinhalese.
West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.
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