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On January 7, 1999, the US Senate began hearings on the impeachment of the president. Bill Clinton was accused of lying under oath about the relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was charged with 11 counts, in particular, for deception of justice...

Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason, on January 5, 1895, he was publicly deprived of titles and awards. In April of the same year he left for penal servitude on Devil Island in French Guyana. Interest in the Dreyfus case resumed at the end of 1896...

Catherine de Medici came from a kind of influential Florentine political figures. She became Queen of France at the age of 14, but for a long time had no influence on public affairs. The situation changed on July 10, 1559 — Henry II died from a wound...

On January 4, 1954, 18-year-old Elvis entered the first Memphis recording studio and for $ 4 recorded some songs for his mother's birthday. Sam Phillips, the owner of the studio, was amazed at the clarity of his voice and the original manner of singing...

The future famous scientist was born on Christmas 1642 in the family of a small landowner in the town of Woolsthorpe in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England. His father died three months before the birth of his son, who was named in his...

Between 1602 and 1604, after rumors of the atrocities of the Countess Elizabeth or Erzhebet Bathory spread throughout the kingdom, Lutheran minister Ishtvan Madyari complained about her, both publicly and at court in Vienna. It took some time for the...

On December 31, 1802, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered one of the largest minor planets, the first asteroid Cecera. This is the nearest dwarf planet to Earth, it sometimes approaches a distance of 263 million km. On the island of Sicily...

In 191, Rome suffered greatly from a fire that destroyed many public buildings, the imperial palace, the temples of Peace and Vesta. The vain Commodus declared himself new Romulus, ritually re-founded Rome, renamed the city, all the months of the year...

In Baghdad, by a court sentence on December 30, 2006, the fifth Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hanged, convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes. In August 1990, Saddam Hussein annexed Kuwait and declared it the 19th province of Iraq, but...

This woman was a mystery, not only in life, but also after its completion. In the early 20s, she became the standard of beauty, with shocking behavior. About her lovers and mistresses, many gossiped. Insolence, freethinking, alienation and coldness -...