April 30, 1929: Under orders from Marius Brezeanu (better known as Doctor Mirabilis), Banat Republic troops invade Transylvania, slaughtering Count Orlock and over two dozen of his vampire warlords. Doctor Mirabilis, derided by some as ‘The Despot of the Banat,’ had recently led a revolution that overthrew the rule of the German industrialist barons in […]
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This Day in AE history: the Liberation of Pittsburgh from the Martians
April 16, 1900 – The Martian occupation of Pittsburgh is broken by a combined army of partisans and remnants of US and CS formations led by William ‘Butcher Bill’ Kernan. Refugees in the mountains around the city had been fighting a guerrilla campaign against the Martians for nearly a year after several failed attempts by […]
