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Today in History

April 15
1450

Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

1892

The General Electric Company is formed.

1936

First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.

1970

During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.

1989

Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.

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