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Today in History: Huge Dust Storm Disrupts the United States (1934)

There were many causes of the Great Depression. No economic disaster of that magnitude ever has a single cause. It is very hard to imagine the devastation caused by the economic downfall…

By Matthew Weber · 4 min

Crime

Today in History: More Evidence Found Against the Queen of Poisoners in France (1949)

On this day in 1949, French authorities exhumed the body of Leon Besnard, the son of a very wealthy family from…

Matthew Weber · 3 min