In 1689 in England, the citizens thought that their king, James II, was a little too Catholic and a little too French. William and Mary came in North from France and took over in a bloodless revolution. The people were happy to get a Protestant on the throne again.
During the Middle Ages, people would sometimes be executed for witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts was an example of witch hysteria. In 1775, the last accused witch was executed in Germany.
Hitler built quite a few concentration camps to murder Jews in during World War II. The Americans liberated some of them. On this day in 1945, Americans liberated the Jews at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The Apollo program was bringing Americans to the moon. In 1970, Apollo 13 was launched. The flight had quite a few mishaps. Unfortunately, the astronauts never made it to the moon, but they were able to make enough repairs in-flight to come home safely.
On this day in 2006, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced that his country had successfully enriched uranium. It is a step that is necessary before you can build your own nuclear weapons.
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