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England's last pagan king meets his end
On the rain-swollen banks of the Winwaed River in Yorkshire, King Oswiu of Northumbria defeated the combined forces of Penda of Mercia and Aethelhere of East Anglia. Penda, the last great pagan king of Anglo-Saxon England, fell in the battle, effectively ending organized pagan resistance to Christianity in England and reshaping the island's political landscape.
New Zealand cricket's pioneering batsman
In Wellington, New Zealand, Stewart Dempster was born with the hand-eye coordination that would make him his country's first international cricket star. As a Test batsman and later coach, he represented New Zealand, Wellington, and several English counties, establishing the foundation upon which generations of New Zealand cricketers would build.
The Holocaust: In the Romani Holocaust, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Romani were to be put "on the.
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek death camps in occupied Poland.