The Duffield Memorial (central medallion pictured) in Great Baddow, an "unusual example of Art Nouveau design in metal work", was designated a listed building by Historic England.
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A Tuesday in history
Weekday
Tuesday
Season
Summer (N. Hemisphere)
Century
16th century
Records
437
2022
2010WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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2001Phoolan Devi, a serving Indian member of Parliament, was shot outside her house in New Delhi, India.
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2000Air France Flight 4590 , a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109 passengers on board and four people on the ground.
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1976The orbiting spacecraft Viking 1 took a photograph of an apparent face on Mars in a classic example of pareidolia.
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1950Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
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1943The Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini, who was arrested the same day by King Victor Emmanuel III and replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
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1898Spanish–American War: After more than two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invaded Puerto Rico.
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1893The Corinth Canal was formally opened, bisecting the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in Greece to connect the Ionian Sea's Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf.
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1591Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English forces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands, having defeated the Duke of Parma's army in the field.
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1261Struggle for Constantinople: Alexios Strategopoulos led Nicaean forces to recapture Constantinople, leading to the reestablishment of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the Latin Empire.
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306Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
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