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- 628 – Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, was overthrown by his son Kavad II.
- 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
- 1956 – In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
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