Having received few reinforcements by the time the Mexicans attacked on 6 March, the Alamo’s defenders suffered a decisive defeat that is believed to have killed every soldier in the compound.
Pedro Lascuráin began the shortest presidential term in history when he became President of Mexico for less than an hour.
The shortest papacy in history ended after just twelve days following the death of Pope Urban VII, shortly after he introduced Europe’s first smoking ban.
Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish communist Ramón Mercader.
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