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OddlyTrue News Stand — May 28
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Weird history on May 28
1754 First everFrench and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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1242 Oddly trueAvignonet massacre: A group of Cathars, with the probable connivance of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse, murder the inquisitor William Arnaud and eleven of his companions.
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1982 WeirdFalklands War: The British War Cabinet, which never considered using nuclear weapons in the conflict, ordered that the nuclear depth bombs on British ships return home.
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Vintage clipping · 1903
The Oskaloosa herald (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa), May 28, 1903
Page 5 · mentions "mysterious" · printed on this very day
“Iron Beds with brass top rails knobs and spindles well made and complete with first class woven wire springs and good grade cotton top mattress For 1150 We have these in all sites and it will not pay yon to bother cleani…”
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