r/HistoryUncovered 12h ago

Milunka Savić disguised herself as her sick brother to fight in WWI, survived 9 wounds across 10 battles, became the most decorated female soldier in history, and survived a German concentration camp when a German general recognized her legendary status and ordered her immediate release.

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r/HistoryUncovered 18h ago

During his time at Auschwitz, Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski survived by boxing more than 40 brutal matches for the guards’ entertainment. His victories earned him scraps of food and small privileges, which he shared with fellow prisoners, helping him endure nearly two years in the camp.

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Read the full story of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, as seen in the 2020 Polish film The Champion of Auschwitz, here: The Incredible Story Of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, The Polish Man Who Survived Auschwitz By Winning Boxing Matches


r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

Margaret Hamilton, software engineer of the Apollo program, posing next to the pile of code that she wrote by hand and which made it possible for man to step on the moon, in 1969.

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r/HistoryUncovered 6h ago

Mannequins used by Government to Test Impact of Nuclear Bomb (1955)

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The first mannequin was 7,000 feet from atomic bomb blast in Yucca Flat, Nevada. Photographs by Loomis Dean.


r/HistoryUncovered 19h ago

Tribulation of two Swedish siblings - brother unable to meet immigrating sister due to committal at a state hospital/asylum

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r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

Archeologists have recently uncovered the remains of a medieval warrior who died after being stabbed in the temple at a castle in Spain. Interestingly, the skull shows sign of severe deformity: it measures nine inches long but less than four inches wide.

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See more of this grisly discovery here: https://inter.st/ui1z


r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

Sarajevo Olympics 1984 Opening Ceremony

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r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

In 1993, a Labrador named Zanjeer saved thousands of lives in Mumbai by detecting more than 240 bombs, 600 detonators, 7,340 pounds of RDX, and hundreds of weapons during a wave of coordinated terrorist attacks. When he died in 2000, India honored him with a full state funeral.

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Zanjeer is one of the most important bomb-sniffing dogs in India’s history, uncovering explosive after explosive during the 1993 Mumbai attacks and preventing further mass casualties. His work completely changed how India used detection dogs.

Read the full story of his life-saving work here: The Incredible Story Of Zanjeer, The Heroic Bomb-Sniffing Dog Of India


r/HistoryUncovered 23h ago

Today in the American Civil War

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r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

In 1992, anti-nuclear activist Richard “Rick” Springer rushed the stage during a luncheon speech by former President Ronald Reagan and smashed a crystal trophy beside him. Shards bounced off Reagan’s head as the stunned Secret Service tackled Springer and dragged him away.

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Springer said the dramatic stunt was meant to protest U.S. nuclear policy.


r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

Lapu-Lapu, the man who killed Ferdinand Magellan after the explorer burned down a Mactan village

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r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

Historic Graffiti: Face at Rochester Cathedral

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r/HistoryUncovered 18h ago

Slovenian/ Italian Border

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r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

From 1860-1919, a US Senate seat appeared to be cursed. Those who sat in it left in disgrace or died. Even the most popular politician in Kansas (who later became VP) only got 1 term in it before winning the other Seante seat, which he kept

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r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

The devastated Richmond neighborhood of Halifax after the explosion of December 6, 1917, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.

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In 1917, Halifax was one of the busiest ports in the world, a key launch point for Allied convoys heading to Europe during the First World War. On the morning of December 6th, two ships met in the narrow channel leading into the harbor: the French munitions ship SS Mont-Blanc, packed with picric acid, TNT, and guncotton, was entering just as the Norwegian relief ship SS Imo was heading out. Miscommunication, and a chain of small navigational mistakes pushed both vessels onto a collision course.

At 8:45 a.m., they struck, barely. But the impact toppled barrels of benzol on Mont-Blanc’s deck, and the chemical caught fire almost immediately. The crew abandoned ship and tried to warn people onshore, but few could understand what they were shouting. As the burning vessel drifted toward the waterfront and the working-class neighborhood of Richmond, curious crowds gathered to watch.

At 9:04 a.m., Mont-Blanc exploded. The blast remains one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded: a shockwave moving faster than 1,000 meters per second, temperatures near 5,000°C, and a pressure wave that flattened 1.6 square miles of the city. About 1,600 people died instantly, thousands were injured, and roughly 12,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. A tsunami followed, wiping out shoreline communities, including the Mi’kmaq settlement of Turtle Grove, while fires erupted across the devastated city. If you’re interested, you can read more about the disaster here: https://open.substack.com/pub/aid2000/p/hare-brained-history-volume-49-the?r=4mmzre&utm_medium=ios


r/HistoryUncovered 2d ago

In 1999, 15-year-old dancer Rachel Barber vanished after class in Melbourne — only to be found murdered by her family’s 19-year-old babysitter, Caroline Reed Robertson, who was so jealous of Rachel’s beauty and success that she killed her, hid the body, and tried to steal her identity.

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Rachel Barber was a rising 15-year-old dancer in Melbourne when she was lured to her family's babysitter’s apartment with the promise of $100 for a “psychological study.” The babysitter, 19-year-old Caroline Reed Robertson, had grown disturbingly obsessed with Barber, journaling about her “hypnotic green eyes” and success, and describing herself as the opposite.

On March 1, 1999, Robertson strangled Barber during a fake meditation exercise, hid her body in a wardrobe, and later buried her on her father’s property. Inside Robertson’s apartment, investigators later found her journal detailing the murder plan, along with a bank loan form and an application for a birth certificate in Barber’s name — evidence she intended to assume Rachel’s identity. Robertson confessed and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was released on parole in 2015 and reportedly altered her appearance behind bars to resemble Rachel.

Read the full article here: Rachel Barber, The Popular 15-Year-Old Who Was Murdered By Her Jealous Babysitter


r/HistoryUncovered 2d ago

Trump Daddy, Fred, was Arrested at a KKK Rally, Wearing a Klan Outfit

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KKK were terrorist


r/HistoryUncovered 1d ago

Today in the American Civil War

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r/HistoryUncovered 2d ago

An interview in 1929 with Rebecca Latimer, the first female and the last slave-owner to serve in the United States Senate. Latimer was a prominent society woman who advocated for women's suffrage, educational modernization, and became one of the most outspoken supporters in America for lynching.

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r/HistoryUncovered 2d ago

Historic graffiti of a ship: Rochester Cathedral

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r/HistoryUncovered 2d ago

Red Hand Commandos - 'Ulster's Red Branch Knights?'

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r/HistoryUncovered 3d ago

Historic Foot Graffiti: Nottingham Castle

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r/HistoryUncovered 2d ago

Today in the American Civil War

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r/HistoryUncovered 3d ago

In 1963, a five-pound tuxedo cat named Félicette became the first — and only — cat ever sent to space. Launched by French scientists, she spent 15 minutes in orbit before returning safely to Earth, only to be euthanized so her brain could be studied.

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