WeekInTime Issue 82: My Lai
U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley Jr. is tried for the My Lai massacre in 1970
History Bites
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📚 Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death in 1849
⛪ The new (yes, there was an old one) St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is consecrated in 1626
🚲 LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938. Its psychedelic properties wouldn’t be discovered for another five years
⚔️ Francisco Pizarro ambushes and seizes the Inca r…
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