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February 27, 1925. On this date, Adolf Hitler declared the reformulation of the Nazi Party with himself as the leader.
November 8, 1932. On this date, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected as the 32nd President of the United States.
June 28, 1914. On this date, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, precipitating WWI.
July 1, 1916. On this date, the most causalities in a single day during World War I occurred at the Battle of Somme.
April 24, 1915. On this date, Ottoman authorities rounded up 240 Armenian leaders in Constantinople, an event commemorated today by Armenians as the beginning of the genocide.
November 9, 1938. On this date, the Nazi regime coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence in Nazi Germany. This became known as Kristallnacht or the "Night of Broken Glass."
March 22, 1933. On this date, the SS established the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
January 30, 1933. On this date, Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi Party assumed control.
April 1, 1933. On this date, the Nazi Party and its affiliates organized a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
May 10, 1933. On this date, books deemed "un-German" are publicly burned throughout Germany.
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