Ernie Pyle relates :" On these little farms of the Pontine marshes Mussolini built hundreds of ... stone farmhouses ... Now and then I saw a farmer plowing while German shells landed right in his field.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

On the morning of 28 September 1106, exactly 40 years after William had made his way to England, the decisive battle between his two surviving sons, Robert Curthose and Henry Beauclerc, took place in the small village of Tinchebray, in Lower Normandy.

On 29 January 1121 he married Adeliza, daughter of Godfrey I of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia and Landgrave of Brabant, but there were no children from this marriage.

On April 15, 2008, she announced that in 2010 the foundation will be opening a museum devoted to Jackie in Lower Manhattan.

On 1 January 1874 Liegnitz became the third city in Lower Silesia ( after Breslau and Görlitz ) to be raised to an urban district, although the district administrator of the surrounding Landkreis Liegnitz continued to have his seat in the city.

Meyer Berger recalled that, as a child, " On Saturday mornings, I used to venture from Brooklyn with my father to Radio Row on Cortlandt Street in Lower Manhattan, where he and hundreds of other New York men moved from stall to stall in search of the elusive tube that would make the radio work again.

On 20 January 2007, the outbreak was reported to have crossed into Somalia from Kenya and killed 14 people in the Lower Jubba region.

On 25 November 2006, Steve Bracks won his third election, comfortably defeating Baillieu to secure a third term, with a slightly reduced majority in the Lower House.

In 1870, Rudolf Clausius delivered the lecture " On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat " to the Association for Natural and Medical Sciences of the Lower Rhine, following a 20 year study of thermodynamics.

On Duke Otto II's death in 1253, the Wittelsbach possessions were divided between his sons: Henry became Duke of Lower Bavaria, and Louis II Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine.

On the opposite ( west ) bank is the town of Nordenham at the foot of the Butjadingen Peninsula ; thus, the mouth of the river is located in Lower Saxony.

On 1 January 2005, Lower Saxony disbanded its remaining four Regierungsbezirke: Brunswick, Hanover, Lüneburg, and Weser-Ems.

On 25 March 1947 the Lower House of the Dutch parliament ratified a ' stripped down ' version of the treaty, which was not accepted by the Republic.

On 29 August 1982, Murphy killed Jim Galway ( 33 ), a part-time Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) soldier from the Lower Shankill area who had been passing information to the UVF and was involved with its Ballymena units.

On Lower Road, about half way between Surrey Quays and Canada Water stations, is a public house called the China Hall ; at one time it was the entrance to a riparian playhouse visited by Samuel Pepys and mentioned in his diary.

On 19 June 2008, the Taliban in Sadda, Lower Kurram, Pakistan burnt alive three truck drivers of the Turi tribe after attacking a convoy of trucks enroute from Kohat to Parachinar.

On April 10, 2009, zebra mussel shells were discovered on the shore of Lower Prior Lake.

On the outskirts of Thornbury, at Lower Morton, is an independent reformed evangelical church, Morton Baptist Church.

On December 19, 2007, a committee was formed to work to bring a veterans monument to Lower Makefield Township.

On October 15, 2008, the Lower Makefield Supervisors unanimously approved designating the site of the farmer's market ( known as Pocket Park ) as a veterans monument.

On October 28, 2004, President George W. Bush visited with a crowd of 23, 000 at Ruth Wright's Broadmeadows Farm in Lower Makefield during a campaign rally for the 2004 Presidential election.

On a post-secondary level, Lower Burrell is home to Newport Business Institute and Oakbridge Academy of Arts, both located in the Kinloch neighborhood.

Hall's writings at Leicester embraced various tracts printed for private circulation ; a number of dontributions to the Eclectic Review, among which may be mentioned his articles on Foster's Essays and on Zeal without Innovation ; several sermons, including those On the Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes ( 1810 ), On the Death of the Princess Charlotte ( 1817 ), and On the Death of Dr Ryland ( 1825 ); and his pamphlet on Terms of Communion, in which he advocated intercommunion with all those who acknowledged the " essentials " of Christianity.

* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

On 1 September the Prince Maximilian renounced his rights of succession in favor of his son Frederick Augustus, who was proclaimed Prince Co-Regent ( de: Prinz-Mitregenten ) of Saxony.

On his deathbed, Conrad yielded the crown to his main rival, Henry of Saxony ( r. 919 – 36 ), who was elected king at the Diet of Fritzlar in 919.

On his way to the territory of his brother-in-law Henry of Saxony, Richard was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna by Leopold V, Duke of Austria who accused Richard of arranging the murder of his cousin Conrad of Montferrat.

On the other hand, Vratislaus supported the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke Henry the Fowler.

On October 10, France declared war on Austria and Saxony.

On 11 June 1441, Frederick II married Catherine of Saxony ( 1421 – August 23, 1476 ), a daughter of Elector Frederick I of Saxony and Katharina of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

On August 1, 2008, Saxony restructured its districts ( Landkreise ) and changed the name of its Regierungsbezirke to Direktionsbezirke.

On September 30, 1834 Semper obtained a post as Professor of Architecture at the Königlichen Akademie der bildenden Künste ( today called the Hochschule ) in Dresden thanks largely to the efforts and support of his former teacher Franz Christian Gau and swore an oath of allegiance to the King ( formerly Elector ) of Saxony, Anthony Clement.

On 24 April the court ruled that Zedler must pay the fine of 300 thalers and banned him from further printing within Saxony.

On King Edward's accession, he left Saxony to promote the work of reformation in England ; and, after some time, Nicholas Ridley, then bishop of London, gave him a prebend in St. Paul's Cathedral, and the dean and chapter appointed him reader of the divinity lesson there.

On 13 July 1524, Müntzer apparently delivered his Sermon to the Princes, a sermon allegedly given to Duke John of Saxony and his advisors in Allstedt, though the circumstances surrounding this event are unclear.

On the strength of the Gedanken über die Nachahmung der Griechischen Werke, Augustus III, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, granted him a pension of 200 thalers, so that he could continue his studies in Rome.

On 27 February 1764, when Prince Frederick was six months old, his father secured his election as Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in today's Lower Saxony.

On July 1, 2004, the church announced its intention to merge with the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony to form the new Evangelical Church in Central Germany.

On 30 November 1906 at Waldenburg, Saxony, Prince William married Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg ( 1885 – 1936 ); she was distantly related to the Orthodox Ghika family of Albanian origin.

On 24 August 2001, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Czech Prime Minister Miloš Zeman visited the Euregio Egrensis ( a cross-border initiative between districts in Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia and Bohemia ), and received the Freedom of the City of Cheb.

On 27 April 1694 Johann Georg died without legitimate issue and Augustus became Elector of Saxony, as Frederick Augustus I.

On 1 September 1706, Charles invaded Saxony, forcing Augustus to yield the Polish throne to Leszczyński by the Treaty of Altranstädt.

On January 15, 1837, he was ordained as a pastor in the town of Bräunsdorf, Saxony.

On July 9 the Soviet SVAG ordered to merge Anhalt, Halle-Merseburg, the governorate of Magdeburg and some Brunswickian eastern exclaves and salients into the Province of Saxony.