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data/data/10/23.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"4004 BC", "text": "According to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1641", "text": "Rebellion in Ireland. Catholics, under Phelim O’Neil, rise against the Protestants and massacred men, women and children to the number of 40,000 (some say 100,000)." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1694", "text": "American colonial forces led by Sir William Phips, fail in their attempt to seize Quebec." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1707", "text": "The first Parliament of Great Britain meets." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1783", "text": "Virginia emancipates slaves who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1861", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all military-related cases." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "President Wilson feels satisfied that the Germans are accepting his armistice terms and agrees to transmit their request for an armistice to the Allies. The Germans have agreed to suspend submarine warfare, cease inhumane practices such as the use of poison gas, and withdraw troops back into Germany." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1929", "text": "The first transcontinental air service begins from New York to Los Angeles." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "The Western Task Force, destined for North Africa, departs from Hampton Roads, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1952", "text": "The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to Ukranian-born microbiologist Selmart A. Waksman for his discovery of an effective treatment of tuberculosis." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1954", "text": "In Paris, an agreement is signed providing for West German sovereignty and permitting West Germany to rearm and enter NATO and the Western European Union." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "A U.N. sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur war between Israel and Syria." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "A truck filled with explosives, driven by a Moslem terrorist, crashes into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The bomb kills 237 Marines and injures 80. Almost simultaneously, a similar incident occurs at French military headquarters, where 58 die and 15 are injured." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1989", "text": "The Hungarian Republic replaces the communist Hungarian People’s Republic." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a \"land for peace\" agreement." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"2002", "text": "Chechen terrorists take 700 theater-goers hostage at the House of Culture theater in Moscow." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"2004", "text": "An earthquake in Japan kills 35, injures 2,200, and leaves 85,000 homeless or displaced." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"2011", "text": "Libiyan National Transition Council declares the Libyan civil war is over." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"10", "year":"2012", "text": "The world’s oldest teletext service, BBC’s Ceefax, ceases operation." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/24.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"439", "text": "Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1531", "text": "Bavaria, despite being a Catholic region, joins the League of Schmalkalden, a Protestant group which opposes Charles V." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1648", "text": "The signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ends the German Thirty Years’ War." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1755", "text": "A British expedition against the French held Fort Niagara in Canada ends in failure." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1836", "text": "The match is patented." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1861", "text": "Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1863", "text": "General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to find the Union Army there starving." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1897", "text": "The first comic strip appears in the Sunday color supplement of the New York Journal called the ‘Yellow Kid.’" },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1901", "text": "Anna Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1916", "text": "Henry Ford awards equal pay to women." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1917", "text": "The Austro-German army routs the Italian army at Caporetto, Italy." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1929", "text": "Black Thursday–the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1930", "text": "John Wayne debuts in his first starring role in The Big Trail ." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1931", "text": "Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1934", "text": "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called Mahatma or \"Great Soul,\" resigns from Congress in India." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1938", "text": "The Fair Labor Standards Act becomes law, establishing the 40-hour work week." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "The aircraft carrier USS Princeton is sunk by a single Japanese plane during the Battle of Leyte Gulf." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1945", "text": "The United Nations comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 nations." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1945", "text": "Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s wartime minister president, is executed by firing squad for collaboration with the Nazis." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1952", "text": "Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that if elected, he will go to Korea." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "Leftist Salvador Allende elected president of Chile." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "Yom Kippur War ends." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1980", "text": "Poland’s government legalizes the Solidarity trade union." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"1992", "text": "Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the 11th inning of the 6th game, to become the first Major League Baseball team from outside the US to win the series." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"2003", "text": "The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial passenger flight from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport, traveling at twice the speed of sound." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"10", "year":"2008", "text": "Many stock exchanges worldwide suffer the steepest declines in their histories; the day becomes known as \"Bloody Friday.\"" }      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/25.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1415", "text": "An English army under Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt, France. The French had out numbered Henry’s troops 60,000 to 12,000 but British longbows turned the tide of the battle." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1760", "text": "George III of England crowned." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1854", "text": "During the Crimean War, a brigade of British light infantry is destroyed by Russian artillery as they charge down a narrow corridor in full view of the Russians." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1916", "text": "German pilot Rudolf von Eschwege shoots down his first enemy plane, a Nieuport 12 of the Royal Naval Air Service over Bulgaria." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1923", "text": "The Teapot Dome scandal comes to public attention as Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, subcommittee chairman, reveals the findings of the past 18 months of investigation. His case will result in the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, and later Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, the first cabinet member in American history to go to jail. The scandal, named for the Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, involved Fall secretly leasing naval oil reserve lands to private companies." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1940", "text": "German troops capture Kharkov and launch a new drive toward Moscow." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "The Japanese are defeated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the world’s largest sea engagement. From this point on, the depleted Japanese Navy increasingly resorts to the suicidal attacks of Kamikaze fighters." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "Chinese Communist Forces launch their first-phase offensive across the Yalu River into North Korea." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1951", "text": "In a general election, England’s Labour Party loses to Conservatives. Winston Churchill becomes prime minister, and Anthony Eden becomes foreign secretary." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1954", "text": "President Eisenhower conducts the first televised Cabinet meeting." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1958", "text": "The last U.S. troops leave Beirut." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1960", "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr., is sentenced to four months in jail for a sit-in." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "Adlai Stevenson shows photos to the UN Security Council that prove Soviet missiles have been installed in Cuba." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "In South Africa, civil rights activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to 5 years in prison." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "United Nations expels the Republic of China and seats the People’s Republic of China." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "1,800 U.S. troops and 300 Caribbean troops land on Grenada. U.S. forces soon turn up evidence of a strong Cuban and Soviet presence–large stores of arms and documents suggesting close links to Cuba." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"1991", "text": "The last soldiers of the Yugoslav People’s Army leaves the Republic of Slovenia." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"10", "year":"2009", "text": "Terrorist bombings in Baghdad kill over 150 and wound over 700." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/26.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1774", "text": "The first Continental Congress, which protested British measures and called for civil disobedience, concludes in Philadelphia." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1795", "text": "When General Paul Barras resigns his commission as head of France’s Army of the Interior to become head of the Directory, his second-in-command becomes the army’s commander—Napoleon Bonaparte." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1825", "text": "The first boat on the Erie Canal leaves Buffalo, N.Y." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1881", "text": "Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday have a shootout with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1905", "text": "Norway signs a treaty of separation with Sweden. Norway chooses Prince Charles of Denmark as the new king; he becomes King Haakon VII." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "Germany’s supreme commander, General Erich Ludendorff, resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating the armistice. This sets the stage for his later support for Hitler and the Nazis, who claim that Germany did not lose the war on the battlefield but were \"stabbed in the back\" by politicians." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "Japanese attack Guadalcanal, sinking two U.S. carriers." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Island, in the South Pacific." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "A reconnaissance platoon for a South Korean division reaches the Yalu River. They are the only elements of the U.N. force to reach the river before the Chinese offensive pushes the whole army down into South Korea." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1955", "text": "The Village Voice is first published, backed in part by Norman Mailer." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1955", "text": "Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1957", "text": "The Russian government announces that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the nation’s most prominent military hero, has been relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense. Khrushchev accused Zhukov as promoting his own \"cult of personality\" and saw him as a threat to his own popularity." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1958", "text": "The first New York – Paris transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by Pan Am, while the first New York – London transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by BOAC." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1967", "text": "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and his wife Farah as empress." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "Gary Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury first appears." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1979", "text": "The President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, asssinated by Kim Jae-kyu, head of the country’s Central intelligence Agency; Choi Kyu-ha is named acting president." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"1994", "text": "Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"2001", "text": "The USA PATRIOT Act signed into law by Pres. George W. Bush, greatly expanding intelligence and legal agencies’ ability to utilize wiretaps, records searches and surveillance." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"10", "year":"2002", "text": "Russian Spetsnaz storm the Moscow Theatre, where Chechen terrorists had taken the audience and performers hostage three days earlier; 50 terrorists and 150 hostages die in the assault." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/27.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"97", "text": "To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1553", "text": "Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burned for heresy in Switzerland." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1612", "text": "A Polish army that invaded Russia capitulates to Prince Dimitri Pojarski and his Cossacks." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1791", "text": "President George Washington transmits to Congress the results of the first US census, exclusive of South Carolina which had not yet submitted its findings." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1806", "text": "Emperor Napoleon enters Berlin." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1809", "text": "President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1862", "text": "A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1870", "text": "The French fortress of Metz surrenders to the Prussian Army." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1873", "text": "Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1891", "text": "D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1904", "text": "The New York subway officially opens running from the Brooklyn Bridge uptown to Broadway at 145th Street." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1907", "text": "The first trial in the Eulenberg Affair ends in Germany." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1917", "text": "20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1922", "text": "In Italy, liberal Luigi Facta’s cabinet resigns after threats from Mussolini that \"either the government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome.\" Mussolini calls for a general mobilization of all Fascists." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1927", "text": "Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: \"America has been attacked, the shooting has started.\" He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1954", "text": "Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the US Air Force." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "American U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Cuba, killing the pilot, Maj. Rudolf Anderson, the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "The political career of future US president Ronald Reagan is launched when he delivers a speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "The Democratic Republic of the Congo renamed Zaire." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1986", "text": "London Stock Exchange rules change as Britain suddenly deregulates financial markets, an event called the Big Bang." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1988", "text": "US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"10", "year":"1997", "text": "Stock markets crash around the world over fears of a global economic meltdown." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/28.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"312", "text": "Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"969", "text": "After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1216", "text": "Henry III of England is crowned." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1628", "text": "After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1636", "text": "Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1768", "text": "Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1793", "text": "Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1863", "text": "In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the \"cracker line.\" They fail." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1886", "text": "The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe’s Island, by President Grover Cleveland" },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1901", "text": "Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House kill 34." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1904", "text": "The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1919", "text": "Over President Wilson’s veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1927", "text": "Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1940", "text": "Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1960", "text": "In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians from the Soviet bloc." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1965", "text": "Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world’s tallest arch." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"1982", "text": "The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"2005", "text": "Libby \"Scooter\" Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for \"outing\" CIA agent Valerie Plame." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"10", "year":"2007", "text": "Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/29.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1618", "text": "Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh’s enemies spread rumors that he was opposed the accession of King James." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1787", "text": "Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni opens in Prague." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1814", "text": "The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1901", "text": "Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1927", "text": "Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1929", "text": "Black Tuesday–the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1945", "text": "The first ball-point pen goes is sold by Gimbell’s department store in New York for a price of $12." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "Alonzo G. Moron of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African-American president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1952", "text": "French forces launch Operation Lorraine against Viet Minh supply bases in Indochina." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "Thieves steal a jewel collection–including the world’s largest sapphire, the 565-carat \"Star of India,\" and the 100-carat DeLong ruby–from the Museum of Natural History in New York. The thieves were caught and most of the jewels recovered." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation, superseding the previous \"with all deliberate speed\" ruling." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "Palestinian guerrillas kill an airport employee and hijack a plane, carrying 27 passengers, to Cuba. They force West Germany to release 3 terrorists who were involved in the Munich Massacre." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "More than 500,000 people protest in The Hague, The Netherlands, against cruise missiles." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1986", "text": "The last stretch of Britain’s M25 motorway opens." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports condemns both sides on the Apartheid issue for committing atrocities." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "John Glenn, at age 77, becomes the oldest person to go into outer space. He is part of the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-95." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record up to that time, Hurricane Mitch, makes landfall in Honduras (in 2005 Hurricane Wilma surpassed it); nearly 11,000 people died and approximately the same number were missing." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"2004", "text": "For the first time, Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US; his comments are part of a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"2008", "text": "Delta and Northwest airlines merge, forming the world’s largest airline." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"10", "year":"2012", "text": "Hurricane Sandy devastates much of the East Coast of the US; nearly 300 die directly or indirectly from the storm." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1739", "text": "Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1776", "text": "Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1862", "text": "At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeats the Confederates." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1873", "text": "Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are hanged in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1876", "text": "John L. Routt, the Colorado Territory governor, is elected the first state governor of Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1906", "text": "The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as warning signal." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1929", "text": "The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1931", "text": "The comic strip Dick Tracy first appears in the New York News." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1940", "text": "U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "The Maltese Falson, starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, opens." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "Germany conducts the first successful test flight of a V-2 missile, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "German troops evacuate Athens, Greece." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1951", "text": "A \"shot is heard around the world\" when New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hits a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1952", "text": "The UK successfully conducts a nuclear weapon, becoming the world’s third nuclear power" },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1955", "text": "Two children’s television programs and a family sitcom all destined to become classics debut: Captain Kangaroo, Mickey Mouse Club, and The Dick Van Dyke Show." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1963", "text": "A violent coup in Honduras ends a period of political reform and ushers in two decades of military rule." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1985", "text": "The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1989", "text": "Art Shell becomes the first African American to coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1990", "text": "After 40 years of division, East and West Germany are reunited as one nation." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1993", "text": "Battle of Mogadishu, in which 18 US soldiers and some 1,000 Somalis are killed during an attempt to capture officials of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organization." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"1995", "text": "Former pro football star and actor O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, ending what many called \"the Trial of the Century.\"." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"10", "year":"2008", "text": "The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase distressed assets of financial corporations and supply cash directly to banks to keep them afloat." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1270", "text": "The Seventh Crusade ends by the Treaty of Barbary." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1485", "text": "Henry VII of England crowned." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1697", "text": "The Treaty of Ryswick ends the war between France and the Grand Alliance." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1838", "text": "Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorian County, Ohio becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1899", "text": "Two battalions of British troops are cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender to General Petrus Joubert’s Boers at Nicholson’s Nek." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1905", "text": "The czar of Russia issues the October Manisfesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeonng supprot for revolution." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "The Italians capture Vittorio Veneto and rout the Austro-Hungarian army." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon, October 31." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1922", "text": "Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini is made prime minister. Mussolini centralized all power in himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler’s Germany." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1925", "text": "Scotsman John L. Baird performs first TV broadcast of moving objects." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1938", "text": "H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. Many panic believing it is an actual newscast about a Martian invasion." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "The U.S. destroyer Reuben James, on convoy duty off Iceland, is sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of 96 Americans." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "The First Marine Division is ordered to replace the entire South Korean I Corps at the Chosin Reservoir area." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1953", "text": "US Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves a top secret document to maintain and expand the country’s nuclear arsenal." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1961", "text": "The USSR detonates \"Tsar Bomba,\" a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb; it is still (2013) the largest explosive device of any kind over detonated." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1965", "text": "US Marines repeal multiple-wave attacks by Viet Cong within a few miles of Da Nang where the Marines were based; a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old boy who had been selling the Americans drinks the previous day." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "The Bosphorus Bridge is completed at Istanbul, Turkey, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1974", "text": "The \"Rumble in the Jungle,\" a boxing match in Zaire that many regard as the greatest sporting event of the 20th century, saw challenger Muhammad Ali knock out previously undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1975", "text": "Prince Juan Carlos becomes acting head of state in Spain, replacing the ailing dictator Gen. Francisco Franco." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1985", "text": "Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for its final successful mission." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"1991", "text": "BET Holdings Inc., becomes the first African-American company listed on the New York Stock Exchange." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"10", "year":"2005", "text": "The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) that was destroyed during the firebombing of Dresden in WWII is rededicated." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1517", "text": "Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg in Germany. Luther’s theories and writings inaugurate Protestantism, shattering the external structure of the medieval church and at the same time reviving the religious consciousness of Europe." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1803", "text": "Congress ratifies the purchase of the entire Louisiana area in North America, adding territory to the U.S. which will eventually become 13 more states." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1838", "text": "A mob of about 200 attacks a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1864", "text": "Nevada becomes the 36th state." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "After 14 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1952", "text": "The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "The bombing of North Vietnam is halted by the United States." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "Saigon begins the release of 1,938 Hanoi POW’s." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1984", "text": "Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi by two Sikh members of her bodyguard." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "Iraq announces it will no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"1999", "text": "EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"2000", "text": "Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"10", "year":"2002", "text": "Former Enron Corp. CEO Andrew Fastow convicted on 78 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and wire fraud; the Enron collapse cost investors millions and led to new oversight legislation." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/4.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1777", "text": "At Germantown, Pa., British General Sir William Howe repels George Washington’s last attempt to retake Philadelphia, compelling Washington to spend the winter at Valley Forge." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1795", "text": "General Napoleon Bonaparte leads the rout of counterrevolutionaries in the streets of Paris, beginning his rise to power." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1861", "text": "The Union ship USS South Carolina captures two Confederate blockade runners outside of New Orleans, La." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1874", "text": "Kiowa leader Satanta, known as \"the Orator of the Plains,\" surrenders in Darlington, Texas. He is later sent to the state penitentiary, where he commits suicide October 11, 1878." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1905", "text": "Orville Wright pilots the first flight longer than 30 minutes. The flight lasted 33 minutes, 17 seconds and covered 21 miles." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "The first German Zeppelin raids London." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1917", "text": "Battle of Broodseinde near Ypres, Flanders, a part of the larger Battle of Passchendaele, between British 2nd and 5th armies and the defenders of German 4th Army; most successful Allied attack of the Passchendaele offensive." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1927", "text": "Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting the heads of 4 US presidents on Mount Rushmore." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1940", "text": "Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "Willie Gillis Jr., a fictional everyman created by illustrator Norman Rockwell, makes his first appearance, on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post; a series of illustrations on several magazines’ covers would depict young Gillis throughout World War II." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1943", "text": "US captures the Solomon Islands in the Pacific." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1957", "text": "Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the \"space race.\" The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth’s atmosphere and burned up." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1963", "text": "Hurricane Flora storms through the Caribbean, killing 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1965", "text": "Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope ever to visit the US and the Western hemisphere." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "Cambodia admits that the Viet Cong use their country for sanctuary." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "Judge John Sirca imposes a gag order on the Watergate break-in case." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1976", "text": "In Gregg v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases. This restores the legality of capital punishment, which had not been practiced since 1967. The first execution following this ruling was Gary Gilmore in 1977." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1985", "text": "Free Software Foundation founded to promote universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1992", "text": "Mozambique’s 16-year civil war ends with the Rome General Peace Accords." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"1993", "text": "Russia’s constitutional crisis over President Boris Yeltsin’s attempts to dissolve the legislature: the army violently arrests civilian protesters occupying government buildings." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"10", "year":"2004", "text": "SpaceShipOne, which had achieved the first privately funded human space flight on June 21, wins the Ansari X Prize for the first non-government organization to successfully launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/5.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1762", "text": "The British fleet bombards and captures Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1795", "text": "The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepts their formal surrender." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1813", "text": "U.S. victory at the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario, broke Britain’s Indian allies with the death of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and made the Detroit frontier safe." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1821", "text": "Greek rebels capture Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Peloponnese area of Greece." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1864", "text": "At the Battle of Allatoona, a small Union post is saved from Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood’s army." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1877", "text": "Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1880", "text": "The first ball-point pen is patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1882", "text": "Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse’s assassination." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1915", "text": "Germany issues an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1915", "text": "Bulgaria enters World War I on the side of the Central Powers." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1921", "text": "The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1931", "text": "Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first heavier than air nonstop flight over the Pacific. Their flight, begun October 3, lasted 41 hours, 31 minutes and covered 5,000 miles. They piloted their Bellanca CH-200 monoplane from Samushiro, 300 miles north of Tokyo, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1938", "text": "Germany invalidates Jews’ passports." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1943", "text": "Imperial Japanese forces execute 98 American POWs on Wake Island." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1947", "text": "US President Harry S Truman delivers the first televised White House address." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1948", "text": "A magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Ashgabat in the USSR kills tens of thousands; estimates range from 110,000 to 176,000." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "The first James Bond film, Dr. No starring Sean Connery, debuts." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1965", "text": "U.S. forces in Saigon receive permission to use tear gas." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1966", "text": "A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of \"The Troubles.\"" },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuts on BBC One." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is established." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "Members of the Quebec Liberation Front (QLF) kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada’s first peacetime use of the War Measures Act." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1986", "text": "Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper publishes details of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons development program." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"1988", "text": "Brazil’s Constituent Assembly authorizes the nation’s new constitution." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"10", "year":"2000", "text": "Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, resigns in the wake of mass protest demonstrations." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1014", "text": "The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title \"Slayer of Bulgers\" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1536", "text": "William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1696", "text": "Savoy Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1788", "text": "The Polish Diet decides to hold a four year session." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1801", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1847", "text": "Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is published in London." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1866", "text": "The Reno brothers–Frank, John, Simeon and William–commit the country’s first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1927", "text": "The first \"talkie,\" The Jazz Singer, opens with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "German troops renew their offensive against Moscow." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1965", "text": "Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1966", "text": "Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1981", "text": "Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1987", "text": "Fiji becomes a republic independent of the British Commonwealth." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"1995", "text": "Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"2000", "text": "Yugoslavia’s president Slobodan Milosevic and Argentina’s vice-president Carlos Alvarez both resign from their respective offices." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"10", "year":"2007", "text": "Explorer and author Jason Lewis becomes the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/7.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1571", "text": "In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain’s Don Juan de Austria." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1765", "text": "Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1849", "text": "Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1870", "text": "French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1913", "text": "In attempting to find ways to lower the cost of the automobile and make it more affordable to ordinary Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the \"father of scientific management.\" The result was the assembly line that reduced the time it took to manufacture a car, from 12 hours to 93 minutes." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "Prisoner uprising at Birkenau concentration camp." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, is formed." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1957", "text": "A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor (later called Sellafield) north of Liverpool, England, spreads radioactive iodine and polonium through the countryside and into the Irish Sea. Livestock in the immediate area were destroyed, along with 500,000 gallons of milk. At least 30, and possibly as many as 1,000, cancer deaths were subsequently linked to the accident." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1976", "text": "Hua Guofeng, premier of the People’s Republic of China, succeeds the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party of China." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1985", "text": "Four Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) hijackers seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demand the release of 50 Palestinians held by Israel." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1993", "text": "The Great Flood of 1993 on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers ends, the worst US flood since 1927." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"1996", "text": "Fox News Channel begins broadcasting." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"2001", "text": "US invasion of Afghanistan in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 begins; it will become the longest war in US history." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"10", "year":"2003", "text": "California voters remove Democratic governor Gray Davis from office in the state’s first successful recall of a sitting governor (only the second successful recall of a governor in US history); a Republican candidate, bodybuilder/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wins the election to replace Davis 17 days later." },
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"876", "text": "Charles the Bald is defeated at the Battle of Andernach." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1690", "text": "Belgrade is retaken by the Turks." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1840", "text": "King William I of Holland abdicates." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1855", "text": "Arrow, a ship flying the British flag, is boarded by Chinese who arrest the crew, thus beginning the Second Chinese War." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1862", "text": "The Union is victorious at the Battle of Perryville, the largest Civil War combat to take place in Kentucky." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1871", "text": "The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O’Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1897", "text": "Journalist Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal, begins charting trends of stocks and bonds." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1900", "text": "Maximilian Harden is sentenced to six months in prison for publishing an article critical of the German Kaiser." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1906", "text": "Karl Ludwig Nessler first demonstrates a machine in London that puts permenant waves in hair. The client wears a dozen brass curlers, each wearing two pounds, for the six-hour process." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1912", "text": "First Balkan War begins as Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "US Army corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest; promoted to sergeant and awarded US Medal of Honor and French Croix de Guerre." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1919", "text": "The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives pass the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1921", "text": "First live radio broadcast of a football game; Harold W. Arlin was the announcer when KDKA of Pittsburgh broadcast live from Forbes Field as the University of Pittsburgh beat West Virginia University 21–13." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1922", "text": "Lilian Gatlin becomes the first woman pilot to fly across the United States." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1932", "text": "Indian Air Force established." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1939", "text": "Nazi Germany annexes Western Poland." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1956", "text": "Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches the first perfect game in World Series history against the Brooklyn Dodgers." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1967", "text": "Guerrilla Che Guevara captured in Bolivia." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation SEALORDS (South East Asia Lake, Ocean, River and Delta Strategy), an attack on communist supply lines and base areas in and around the Mekong Delta." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "The \"Days of Rage\" begin in Chicago; the Weathermen faction of the Students for a Democratic Society initiate 3 days of violent antiwar protests." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "In the Yom Kippur War an Israeli armored brigade makes an unsuccessful attack on Egyptian positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1978", "text": "Ken Warby of Australia sets the world water speed record, 317.60 mph, at Blowering Dam in Australia; no other human has yet (2013) exceeded 300 mph on water and survived." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1982", "text": "The musical Cats begins a run of nearly 18 years on Broadway." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"1991", "text": "Croatia votes to sever its ties with Yugoslavia." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"10", "year":"2001", "text": "US President George W. Bush establishes the Office of Homeland Security." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"28 BC", "text": "The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1470", "text": "Henry VI of England restored to the throne." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1760", "text": "Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1779", "text": "The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1781", "text": "Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1825", "text": "The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on the sloop Restaurationen." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga after attacking Union General William Rosecrans’ supply and communication lines all around east Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1888", "text": "The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1934", "text": "In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1946", "text": "Eugene O’Neill’s play The Iceman Cometh opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "Harvard Law School begins admitting women." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"1999", "text": "Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 \"Blackbird\" stealth reconnaissance aircraft." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"10", "year":"2006", "text": "North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1190", "text": "Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1692", "text": "Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1776", "text": "The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1801", "text": "Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1854", "text": "The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1861", "text": "Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1864", "text": "At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1898", "text": "U.S. Marines land in Cuba."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1905", "text": "Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1909", "text": "An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1916", "text": "Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1920", "text": "The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1924", "text": "The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1925", "text": "Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1940", "text": "The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1942", "text": "Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1943", "text": "The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1944", "text": "The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s beaches, link up and begin moving inland."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1948", "text": "The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1963", "text": "Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1970", "text": "A 15-man group of special forces troops begin training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1985", "text": "The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation."},
+         { "day":"10", "month":"6", "year":"1999", "text": "Serb forces begin their withdrawl from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers."},
+      ]
+   }
+]