1626: An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people. 1640: Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens dies aged 62.

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Retired professor Stephen L. Hardin has written two standard books of Texas history, one about the revolution, another about ...

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She gave birth to Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump before they divorced in 1989. At the 1985 Met Gala ... for the gala's theme of "The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, ...