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St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (funeral) Participants. The College of Cardinals (led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ), various dignitaries worldwide. On 2 April 2005, Pope John Paul II died at the age of 84. His funeral was held on 8 April, followed by the novendiales devotional in which the Catholic Church observed nine days of mourning.
Her home partly burned but she and her 12-year-old son escaped serious injury." 21 January Army pilot 2d Lt. Harry E. Pape, of Sacramento, California, bails out of Bell P-39Q Airacobra, 42-8862, out of Concord Army Air Base, California, moments before it crashes aboard Naval Air Station Alameda, California, within feet of Building 5.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈkry. (j)ər]; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904), better known as Paul Kruger, was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.
Philadelphia journalist and advocate Josh Kruger was shot and killed at his home early Monday morning, according to police. No weapons were recovered and there have been no arrests, a statement ...
Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal. During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and as a tank commander in the Waffen-SS. German historian Jens Westemeier writes that Peiper personified National Socialist ...
The families of four Marines who died in a V-22 Osprey crash in California on June 8, 2022, have filed a lawsuit accusing the manufacturers of the twin-rotor military aircraft of negligence.. In a ...
Funeral. Benedict XVI's body being borne into St. Peter's Basilica by the papal gentlemen on 2 January. At the time of Benedict's death, the Holy See had procedures governing the rituals surrounding papal deaths and funerals, but which were designed specifically for the deaths of incumbent popes.
A young Kruger retrieves the body of a fallen commander during the siege of Makapansgat. Kruger Day or Heroes' Day was a official public holiday in South Africa from 1882 to 1899 and again from 1952 to 1994, which celebrated annually on 10 October. The day was named after Paul Kruger, a South African politician who served as president of the ...