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Classic headlineAstronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
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Weird history on April 17
1876 Oddly trueCatalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
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1783 Oddly trueThe Mechanical Turk (pictured), a fraudulent chess-playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen that was secretly controlled by a hidden human, began a tour of Europe.
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1895 First everThe Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtian province, Taiwan and the Penghu to Japan.
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Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 15, 1934
Page 34 · mentions "monster"
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