BLAST FROM THE PAST: THE EXPLOSION OF BERLIN'S GUN-POWDER TOWER
Today in Berlin: 12 August, 1720
At around 10.30 AM on this day in 1720, gun powder stocked near the old Spandauer Tor (old city gate on the road to Spandau, Neuruppin and Hamburg in the medieval city fortifications) exploded killin…
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