February 19, 2025

This Day in History

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Shimla, Oct. 29 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2015

It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children.

1995

Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider, died in New York City.

1956

Israel’s army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area.

1950

King Gustav V of Sweden, a strong proponent of Swedish neutrality during World War II, died in Stockholm.

1933

American artist George Luks—one of a group of American painters popularly known as the Ashcan school because of their realistic treatment of urban scenes—died at age 66.

1901

Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.

1897

Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, was born.

1709

The community of Cistercian nuns at Port-Royal, an abbey in France, was dispersed and exiled to other convents because of their involvement with Jansenism.

1618

British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason.

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