Today in History 12th September

Hello again Gentle Readers, I know what your thinking; 3 times in one day.

Lets pull on our waders, grab our rods and step once again into the river of time and pull out some big ones.

490 BC: The Battle of Marathon between the Athenians and an invading army from Persia takes place.

 

1919: Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party, it later became the Nazi Party.

  

1929: Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright, dies.

 

1940: The Lascaux caves are discovered 17,000 years after the paintings that made them famous were painted.

 1977: Steve Biko, South African Civil Rights activist, dies from his injuries he received while in police detention.

 

2014: Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

 

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