<div dir="ltr"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:22px;font-family:Georgia,Utopia,'Palatino Linotype',Palatino,serif;color:rgb(155,63,217)"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in</span><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">295 BC</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> the first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by</span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">during the Third Samnite War</span><br></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6676032965559745820" itemprop="description articleBody" style="width:686.193176269531px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><br>On this day in <b>43 BC</b>, <b>Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus</b>, later known as <b>Augustus</b>, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div><div>On this day in <b>1612</b>, the "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div><div>On this day in <b>1692</b>, Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1839</b>, the French government announces that <b>Louis Daguerre</b>'s photographic process is a gift "free to the world".<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1934</b>, by dint of a national plebecite, the German people hand over sole executive power to <b>Adolph Hitler</b>. The vote was thirty-eight million for Hitler to four million, two hundred and fifty thousand against... which means he had an approval rating of 88%.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1953</b>, the CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of <b>Mohammad Mosaddegh</b> in Iran and reinstate the <b>Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi</b>.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1960</b> in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot <b>Francis Gary Powers</b> is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1960</b>, the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs <b>Belka</b> and <b>Strelka</b>, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in the year <b>1972</b>, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that a drunken, bare-naked <b>George Dubya Bush</b>snorted a line of cocaine off a stripper's belly in a Tijuana tavern while his buddies beat the bartender's blind old hound dog to death with their fat fucking wallets.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1987</b>, in the United Kingdom, <b>Michael Ryan</b> kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1991</b>, Soviet President <b>Mikhail Gorbachev</b> is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>1991</b>, Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>2003</b>, a car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy <b>Sérgio Vieira de Mello</b> and 21 other employees.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><div><br></div>On this day in <b>2010</b>, Operation Iraqi Freedom comes to an end, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border into Kuwait.</div></div>