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Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945. Originally a revolutionary socialist, he forged the paramilitary fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922.

1071 - The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantium army at the Battle of Manzikert. The Turks gain control over much of Anatolia.

The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris.

The first was in 1846, when Abraham Gesner invented kerosene making coal and petroleum practical raw materials for lighting fuel.

By 1206 Temüüjin’s success in tribal warfare caused him to be proclaimed ruler of all the Mongols with the rank of khan and the title of Genghis (Chinggis)—a word deriving probably from the Turkic tengiz, meaning “ocean”; although this explanation has not convinced all Mongol scholars, it is consistent with the belief that the ocean symbolized breadth and depth of wisdom.

Like all pre-industrial societies, medieval Europe had a predominantly agricultural economy. The basic economic unit was the manor, managed by its lord and his officials.

Rudolf Hess on 25th Feb, 1934 addressed about a million Nazi Party officials who were gathered to swear an oath to Adolf Hitler. R.Hess in his speech said, "Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler. He who pledges himself to Hitler pledges himself to Germany."

Shintoism is the ethnic religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practiced by nearly 80% of population. Shinto means 'Way of the Gods'. It is the traditional and ancient religion of Japan, without a founder or sacred scriptures, which regards all natural things as having their own spirituality. It reveres kami, the indigenous folk deities of Japan – spirits present in animals, plants, and even stones and waterfalls.

St. Pachomius was the author of the first cenobitic rule, which was later developed by St. Basil the Great (c. 329–379). Cenobitic monasticism was introduced in the west by St. Benedict of Nursia and became the norm of the Benedictine order.

'The Gospel of Wealth' was an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889. Carnegie, a steel magnate, argued that very wealthy men like him had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society.