Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague and this other major disaster.
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On June 16, 1963, she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched into space two days earlier.
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This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans.
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He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature partly for his six-volume history of World War II.
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This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.
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In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years.
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The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938.
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Prospering under Tatar rule and expanding as it intersected trade routes, this city became a capital in the 15th century.
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In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region.
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In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea.
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The O.A.S. was a secret French force that sought to prevent this African country from gaining independence.
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During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London.
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In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president.
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The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country.
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In 1950, two years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea.
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