The bloodied gloves belonging to Abraham Lincoln, which he kept in his left breast pocket the night he was assassinated. After he was shot, blood ran down his sleeve and pooled in the pocket. His wife kept the gloves all her life.

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12.1.1904 #OTD Beginn Aufstand der #Herero in Deutsch-Südwestafrika mit Angriff auf dt. Einrichtungen & Farmen. Im August 1904 mündet endgültige Niederschlagung durch Dt. Kolonialtruppen in einem #Völkermord.

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