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[History: 1900-2000]: Watergate Hotel to be sold at auction
Jul 19th, 2009

The Watergate Hotel made famous for its role in Richard Nixon’s downfall will be sold at auction later today.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Henry Allingham: Last surviving Navy veteran of the Great War who lived to become the world’s oldest man
    Jul 19th, 2009

    At the age of 113, Henry Allingham was the world’s oldest man and the last surviving member of the Royal Navy to see action in the First World War. With Allingham’s death, there remains only one man in Britain, Harry Patch, who saw action in the First World War.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Churchill’s forgotten WWII army remembered
    Jul 19th, 2009

    A forgotten army of workers who served Winston Churchill in his secret underground offices will feature in a new exhibition next month, marking the 70th anniversary of the start of the second world war.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Fire destroys Anne Frank barracks in Netherlands
    Jul 19th, 2009

    Fire has destroyed a barracks in the Netherlands where Anne Frank worked before her deportation to the Nazi German concentration camp where she died during World War II, local officials said.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Twenty-two witnesses in Nazi guard trial: report
    Jul 19th, 2009

    Prosecution lawyers in Germany have 22 witnesses lined up for the trial of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk starting mid-October, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Correction: Anne Frank, All-American Girl
    Jul 18th, 2009

    The DVD column on July 5, about “The Diary of Anne Frank,” described preview screenings of the movie incorrectly. They did not in fact include scenes set in Bergen-Belsen. (No such scenes were shot.).

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Britain’s oldest man and one of the last Great War heroes, Henry Allingham, dies, aged 113
    Jul 18th, 2009

    They came, they saw the horror, then they conquered. HIS life spanned three centuries and two world wars – and yesterday Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man, took his final bow.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: The head Nazi-hunter’s trail of lies
    Jul 18th, 2009

    Since the early 1960s Simon Wiesenthal’s name has become synonymous with Nazi hunting. His standing is that of a secular saint.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: West ignores lessons of Soviet humiliation in Afghanistan
    Jul 18th, 2009

    “THERE is barely an important piece of land in Afghanistan that has not been occupied by one of our soldiers at some time or another,” the commander said. “Nevertheless, much of the territory stays in the hands of the terrorists.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: Henry Allingham, British first world war veteran, dies at 113
    Jul 18th, 2009

    Henry William Allingham, the world’s oldest man and one of the last surviving first world war servicemen, has died at the age of 113.

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