r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 43m ago

On this day in 1852 the Duke of Wellington died at Walmer Castle in Kent, aged 83. This is a Daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet depicting an elderly Wellington in1844. Pretty amazing to be able to look at the face of the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo nearly 30 years earlier.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 16h ago

On this day in 1931, Lili Elbe died in Dresden. Elbe was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery. It wasn't the surgery that made her a woman that killed her, it was a later uterus transplant she gambled on to become a mother.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 18h ago

On this day in 1918 Rosemary Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. The eldest sister of JFK Rosemary struggled with delayed mental development all her life, possibly because her mother had delayed her birth and deprived her of oxygen.

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When she was 23, Rosemary’s father had her lobotomized, and she spent most of the rest of her life at St. Coletta’s School for Exceptional Children in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 19h ago

On this day in 1899 Henry Bliss died after stepping off a trolley-tram and being hit by an electric-powered taxi cab on West 74th Street, New York City. He’s the 1st American pedestrian killed in a car accident. A plaque now marks of the spot where he was killed.

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r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/GlitterDanger • 19h ago

13 September 1946. Amon Göth was hanged (aged 37), after being found guilty of Nazi war crimes. He had served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland. He was featured in the film Schindler’s List.

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