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1795 - ★(birthday Japan time) "Maria Schicklgruber","grandmother of Adolf Hitler". (timeline)
(Japan's legal birthday) April 14, 1795
(birthday) April 15, 1795
(birthday Japan time) April 16, 1795
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1867 - ◆(birth) Wilbur Wright, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Orville.
He co-founded the Wright Company.
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1889 - ◆(birth) Charlie Chaplin, English actor and filmmaker.
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Probably Chaplin was Hitler's double.
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1914 - ◆Okuma Shigenobu forms his second cabinet (Japan).
The day is the 25th birthday of Charlie Chaplin (April 16, 1889).
The day is March 21 in the Japanese calendar and is the 25th birthday of Adolf Hitler (March 21, 1889 in the Japanese calendar).
The day is April 16 in the 3rd year of the Taisho Era and is the 47th anniversary of the birth of Wilbur Wright (April 16 in the 3rd year of the Keio Era).
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Chaplin was Hitler's double, but the coincidence of their birthdays occur not on their birthdays but on their 25th birthdays. In order to create the date pun, the Japanese government concocts the Siemens Scandal on January 23, 1914 and forms Okuma Shigenobu's second cabinet on April 16, 1914.
In 1914, Hitler joins the German army in World War I and is decorated for bravery, receiving the Iron Cross, Second Class. And in the same year, Chaplin makes his successful film debut.
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1947 - ◆The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is established.
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1947 - ◆(death) Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Höß is hanged following his trial at Warsaw.
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1947 - ◆The Court Act and the Public Prosecutor's Office Act are promulgated in Japan.
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1947 - ◆A local train catches fire in Ikoma Tunnel near Osaka, Japan.
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1947 - ◆Texas City Disaster.
An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
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1947 - ◆Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War".
He describes the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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2016 - ▼Main shock of the Kumamoto earthquakes occures. M7.0.
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2016 - ▼"Ecuador earthquake". M7.8.
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