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On this day 9 June

6. 6. 2018In 68 guards overthrow the Roman emperor Nero, who then committed suicide.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/9-june/457164

On this day 6 April

4. 4. 2018In 885 St. Method, brother of St. Cyril, dies. Together they invented the Glagolithic alphabet. In 648 BC the old Greeks first describe a solar eclipse.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/6-april/450874

On this day 28 March

26. 3. 2018In 1794 in Paris the famous Louvre museum is opened to the public. In 1809 the initiator of a new modern Paris Georges-Eugene Haussman is born.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/28-march/450052

On this day 12 November

11. 11. 2017In 1694, Francois-Marie Arouet, the French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher who was known by his nom de plume Voltaire, is born. He defended freedom, tolerance and justice.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/12-november/437588

On this day 10 November

6. 11. 2017In 1483, the German priest Martin Luther is born.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/10-november/437129

On this day 28 October

22. 10. 2017In 1886, the Statue of Liberty is uncovered. The statue was donated to the U. S. by France in a sign of alliance between the two countries.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/28-october/435817

On this day 30 September

27. 9. 2017In 1882, the German physicist Johannes Wilhelm Geiger is born.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/30-september/433602

On this day 22 August

9. 8. 2017In 1860, the German engineer Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, who is considered to be the father of television, is born. He invented the Nipkow disk, which made a mechanical television possible.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/22-august/429637

On this day 17 August

8. 8. 2017In 1786, in Tennessee hunter, tracker, trader and politician Davy Crockett is born. The legend of the Wild West died in the Battle of the Alamo.

https://www.rtvslo.si/radio-si/on-this-day/17-august/429555