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On March 5, 1963, Wham-O patented the Hula Hoop, which then became a fad across the country.
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President Woodrow Wilson takes the oath of office delivered by Chief Justice Edward Douglass White for his second term on March 5, 1917. File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union announced that dictator Joseph Stalin had died at age 73. Stalin had been in a coma after having a stroke four days earlier. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI
On March 5, 1946 - 75 years ago today - Winston Churchill delivered a speech in the small Midwestern town of Fulton, Missouri, that was fundamentally to alter the way that the world saw itself.
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A new Imperial War Museums gallery will challenge visitors to “beware the Holocaust because you could have been a perpetrator”.
It is believed the £30m gallery will become the first in the world focusing on the Holocaust to be integrated with a second world war gallery when it opens in London. It seeks to re-examine the narrative of the genocide of millions of Jews and others, who are being commemorated on Wednesday on Holocaust Memorial Day.
Taking a robust view of perpetrators, it will say: “The men – and women – who did this, they weren’t unaware of what they were doing,” said the lead historian on the project, James Bulgin.