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Queen Nzinga: The Warrior Queen of Angola

historical

8 pages

Modern World History

Queen Nzinga: The Warrior Queen of Angola

A story of courage, diplomacy, and resistance against colonialism

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On this calendar date

Bharat

1942
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.
1630
Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to establish Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.

World

2008
On board Soyuz TMA-12, Yi So-yeon became the first Korean astronaut.
1973
The Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo, Norway.
1968
BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a George Cross for heroism.
1961
A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf killed 238 people.
1959
A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language, which became COBOL.
1943
Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.

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