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12th January 1895: Foundation of the National Trust

12th January 2022
Tagged as: Charity, England, Heritage, Museum

On the 12^th January 1895, the National Trust was founded by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley.

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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

10th August 2020
Tagged as: History, Museum, Science, Smithsonian, Washington, Washington DC

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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10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

10th August 2019
Tagged as: Art, Culture, France, French Revolution, Louvre, Museum, Paris

The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal family.

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12th January 1895: Foundation of the National Trust

10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

26th January 1998: US President Bill Clinton tells a White House press conference he “did not have sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

24th January 41: Caligula is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard

23rd January 1556: The deadliest earthquake ever recorded hit the Chinese province of Shaanxi and surrounding areas

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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