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Æthelberht was the King of Wessex Volodymyr Zelensky

from 860 until his death in 865. He was (pictured) wins the
the third son of King Æthelwulf and his Ukrainian
first wife, Osburh. In 855 Æthelwulf went presidential election.
on pilgrimage to Rome and appointed More than 350 people
Æthelberht as king of the recently are killed and
hundreds of others are
conquered territory of Kent. Æthelberht's
injured in multiple
older brother, Æthelbald, was named
bombings at churches Volodymyr Zelensky
king of Wessex. After the deaths of his father in 858 and his brother and hotels in Sri
in 860, Æthelberht ruled both Wessex and Kent without appointing a Lanka.
sub-king, fully uniting the two territories for the first time. According Scientists announce the discovery of
to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he reigned "in good harmony and in naturally occurring helium hydride ions,
great peace". He appears to have been on good terms with his believed to be the first compound to
younger brothers, the future kings Æthelred I and Alfred the Great.
have formed in the universe, in the
planetary nebula NGC 7027.
The kingdom came under attack from Viking raids during his reign,
but these were minor compared to the invasions after his death. Ongoing: Mueller Report · Venezuelan
Æthelberht died in the autumn of 865 and was buried next to his presidential crisis
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brother Æthelbald at Sherborne Abbey in Dorset. He was
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... that the 14th-century Alai

1704 – John
Darwaza (pictured) was the
Campbell
first Indian monument built released the first
using Islamic methods of
issue of The
construction and
Boston News-
ornamentation? Letter, the first
... that while a federal Alai Darwaza continuously
deputy, Virgilio Caballero published Hubble Space Telescope
Pedraza lost his apartment in the 2017 Mexico City newspaper in British North America.
earthquake?
1904 – Realizing that the Russification of
... that Indra Devi helped publicise yoga for Lithuania was not working, the Russian
women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities Empire lifted the 40-year-old ban on
as her pupils? publications using the Lithuanian
... that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait language.
of a Queen of Tonga? 1932 – An estimated 400 ramblers

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... that Avi Nissenkorn, former chairman of
Histadrut, Israel's largest trade union, competed in
his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships
in Athletics?
... that the yeast Candida blankii, first described
from mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
... that Jens Harzer, a German actor with
Hamburg's Thalia Theatre as well as in film and
television, was chosen by Bruno Ganz to be the
latest bearer of the Iffland-Ring?
... that before St Wilfrid's Church opened,
Catholics in Hailsham, East Sussex, had to worship
in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
committed a willful trespass of Kinder
Scout in the Peak District of England to
highlight the denial of access to areas of
open country.
1965 – The Dominican Civil War broke
out due to tensions caused by a military
coup of the democratically elected
government two years previous.
1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope
(pictured) was launched aboard the
Space Shuttle Discovery in mission STS-
31.
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The Armenian Genocide was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, most of whom were
Ottoman citizens. It took place during and after World War I. Historians date the start to 24 April 1915, when the Ottoman authoritie
rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to
the region of Ankara. The majority of them were eventually murdered. The authorities carried out the genocide in two phases—the
wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed b
the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward b
military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.

This map shows the routes by which the government deported Armenians, and the largest massacre sites.

Map: Sémhur

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