Last Volkswagen Beetle Rolls Off the Line: 81-Year Production Run Ends in Mexico
The final Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico, ending an eighty-one-year production run that began under the Third Reich. By retiring the "Special Edition" model to a museum, Volkswagen signaled a definitive shift toward electric vehicle platforms, closing the chapter on the air-cooled engine’s dominance in global automotive design.
July 10, 2019
7 years ago
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What Else Happened on July 10
en la provincia romana de Macedonia, Pompeyo propina una catastrófica derrota a Julio César en la batalla de Dirraquio.
Julius Caesar narrowly escaped total annihilation at Dyrrhachium after Pompey’s forces breached his lines, forcing a desperate retreat into Thessaly. This tacti…
en lo que hoy sería la actual ciudad de León (España), la Legio VII Gemina se instala en el noroeste de la península ibérica
He'd spent three years trying to die. Hadrian, Rome's wall-building emperor, suffered heart failure at his seaside villa in Baiae on July 10, 138 AD—but only af…
Der mutmaßlich aus Nordafrika stammende Miltiades wird Papst. Er ist ein Gegner des Montanismus.
Liu Yu seizes the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin to establish the Liu Song dynasty in 420 AD. This coup ends the Eastern Jin era and fractures China into the N…
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