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Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle, on which he gathered the specimens and observations that led to his theory of evolution by natural selection.

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on yhis day 2020 Argentine football (soccer) star Diego Maradona—who was considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, known for such memorable plays as the “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup—died at age 60.

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U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated The most notorious political murder in recent American history occurred this day in 1963, when John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president (1961–63), was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, while riding in an open car.

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On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a production

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