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Article: TODAY IN HISTORY.(Kentucky Life: History)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2004
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Today's Highlight in History:
One-hundred-fifty years ago, on Oct. 25, 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charged the Russian army in the Battle of Balaclava and suffered heavy losses.
On this date:
* In 1400, author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London.
* In 1760, Britain's King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II.
* In 1918, the Canadian steamship Princess Sophia foundered off the coast of Alaska; nearly 400 people perished.
* In 1962, U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic ...