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September 25
1396. The Battle of Nicopolis, representing the last full-scale Crusader battle of the Middle Ages, is fought on the plains of Bulgaria between the forces of the Ottoman Empire and a coalition of French, Hungary, Venice and the Knights Hospitaller, who were exerting their efforts to recover the Bulgarian capital of Nicopolis for Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman. The thorough defeat of the allied forces is considered the end of The Second Bulgarian Empire, who lost all hope of salvation from Ottoman Turk rule with the defeat.
1911. Ground is broken for Fenway Park.
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