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Today's featured article Charles Edward (1884–1954) was at various times a British prince, the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany, and a Nazi politician. Brought up in the United Kingdom, he was selected to succeed to the throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1899 because he was deemed young enough to be re-educated as a German. He married Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein and the couple had five children. Charles Edward was a conservative ruler with an interest in art and technology. During the First World War, he supported the German Empire but was deposed during the German Revolution. During the 1920s, Charles Edward became a moral and financial supporter of violent far-right paramilitary groups, joining the Nazi Party in 1933. He was given multiple positions, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat. After the war, he was interned for a period and given a minor conviction by a denazification court, dying of cancer in 1954. (Full article...) Recently featured: Homeric Hymns Nil Battey Sannata Hundred Years' War, 1345–1347 On this day... August 2: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Krishna Lal Adhikari 461 – Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later. 1100 – While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men. 1790 – The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214. 1920 – Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn. 1973 – A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man. Pope Severinus (d. 640) Harriet Arbuthnot (d. 1834) Bertha Lutz (b. 1894) Simone Manuel (b. 1996) More anniversaries: August 1 August 2 August 3

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