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During the Battle of Stalingrad, ‘Pavlov’s House’ was the name given to a fortified apartment building held by the Russians against wave after wave of Nazi attacks. How did Soviet general Vasily Chuikov joke about its cost to the Germans?
1533 – Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid. Henry, not dissuaded, will, three years later, see her charged with treason and her head fall to the block. 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. 1892…
