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1789:Master’s mate Fletcher Christian leads the famous mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, setting Lt. William Bligh and 18 other sailors adrift at sea. Remarkably, Bligh will navigate an open boat 3,600 nautical miles to safety on Timor in the Dutch East Indies, while Christian and the mutineers attempt to settle on Tahiti and Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific.
1945: Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is executed along with 15 aides and his mistress, Clara Petacci, by Italian communist partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra near the Swiss border. The next day, their bodies will be hung up upside down in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan to face ridicule and abuse from the Italian public.
2001: California engineer and businessman Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist, blasting off from Kazakhstan aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32. Tito reportedly paid $20 million to spend nearly eight days living in orbit in the International Space Station.
1945: Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is executed along with 15 aides and his mistress, Clara Petacci, by Italian communist partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra near the Swiss border. The next day, their bodies will be hung up upside down in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan to face ridicule and abuse from the Italian public.
2001: California engineer and businessman Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist, blasting off from Kazakhstan aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32. Tito reportedly paid $20 million to spend nearly eight days living in orbit in the International Space Station.
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