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Anne Boleyn's Crown, D-Day & the First AIDS Report | Jun 1–6
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From Anne Boleyn's coronation and the Battle of Midway to the first CDC AIDS report and the D-Day landings, this week in history was packed with world-changing moments. Eight remarkable events across five centuries, four continents, and every corner of human experience.
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On July fourteenth, seventeen eighty-nine, in Paris, France, a restless crowd fed up with royal authority and food shortages marched on the Bastille, a fortress-prison that had come to symbolize the king's absolute power. They stormed the gates, overwhelmed the small garrison, and freed the handful of prisoners inside.
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