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data/data/7/23.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1627", "text": "Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1637", "text": "King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1664", "text": "Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1793", "text": "The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1803", "text": "Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1829", "text": "William A. Burt patents his \"typographer,\" an early typewriter." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1849", "text": "German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "Bill Andeson and his Confederate Bushwackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1865", "text": "William Booth founds the Salvation Army." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1868", "text": "The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1885", "text": "Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1894", "text": "Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1903", "text": "The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1962", "text": "The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"7", "year":"1995", "text": "Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneouly discover a comet." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/24.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1505", "text": "On their way to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Kilwa." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1567", "text": "Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned and forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James VI." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1701", "text": "Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac establishes Fort Ponchartrain for France at present-day Detroit, Michigan." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1704", "text": "Admiral George Rooke takes Gibraltar from the Spanish." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1766", "text": "At Fort Ontario, Canada, Ottawa chief Pontiac and William Johnson sign a peace agreement." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1791", "text": "Robespierre expels all Jacobins opposed to the principles of the French Revolution." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1847", "text": "The first members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrive in Utah, settling in present-day Salt Lake City." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1862", "text": "The eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, dies at the age of 79." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1897", "text": "African-American soldiers of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps arrive in St. Louis, Mo., after completing a 40-day bike ride from Missoula, Montana." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1941", "text": "The U.S. government denounces Japanese actions in Indochina." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1942", "text": "The Soviet city of Rostov is captured by German troops." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1950", "text": "The U.S. Fifth Air Force relocates from Japan to Korea." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"7", "year":"1974", "text": "The Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must surrender the Watergate tapes." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/25.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"326", "text": "Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1394", "text": "Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1564", "text": "Maximillian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1587", "text": "Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1759", "text": "British forces defeat a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1799", "text": "On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1814", "text": "British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy’s Lane, Canada." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1845", "text": "China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1867", "text": "President Andrew Johnson signs an act creating the territory of Wyoming." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1850", "text": "Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1861", "text": "The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1894", "text": "Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1909", "text": "French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel in an airplane." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1914", "text": "Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1924", "text": "Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1934", "text": "Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot and killed by Nazis." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1941", "text": "The U.S. government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1943", "text": "Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1978", "text": "The first test-tube baby, Louis Brown, is born in Oldham, England." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"7", "year":"1984", "text": "Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/26.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"657", "text": "Mu’awiyan defeats Caliph Ali in the Battle of Siffin in Mesopotamia." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1526", "text": "Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon and colonists leave Santo Domingo for Florida." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1529", "text": "Francisco Pizarro receives a royal warrant to \"discover and conquer\" Peru." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1758", "text": "British forces capture France’s Fortress of Louisbourg after a seven-week siege." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1759", "text": "The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1775", "text": "The Continental Congress establishes a postal system for the colonies with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1790", "text": "An attempt at a counter-revolution in France is put down by the National Guard at Lyons." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1794", "text": "The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1830", "text": "King Charles X of France issues five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights of citizens." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1847", "text": "Liberia becomes the first African colony to become an independent state." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1848", "text": "The French army suppresses the Paris uprising." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1886", "text": "William Gladstone is replaced by Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister of England." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1918", "text": "Britain’s top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1920", "text": "The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"1948", "text": "In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"7", "year":"2005", "text": "The shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-114, marking a return to space after the shuttle Columbia crash of 2003." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/27.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1214", "text": "At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1245", "text": "Frederick II is deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1586", "text": "Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virginia." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1663", "text": "British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1689", "text": "Government forces defeat the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1777", "text": "The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1778", "text": "British and French fleets fight to a standoff in the first Battle of Ushant." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1793", "text": "Robespierre becomes a member of the Committee of Public Safety." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1861", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Irwin McDowell with General George B. McClellen as head of the Army of the Potomac." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1905", "text": "The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1909", "text": "Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1914", "text": "British troops invade the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and begin to disarm Irish rebels." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1921", "text": "Canadians Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. troops complete the liberation of Guam." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1953", "text": "Representatives of the United Nations, Korea and China sign an armistice at Panmunjon, Korea." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1964", "text": "President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1980", "text": "Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1981", "text": "William Wyler, director of Ben Hur, dies." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"1993", "text": "Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"7", "year":"2002", "text": "The largest air show disaster in history occurs when a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others." },
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/28.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1540", "text": "Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard; Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1615", "text": "French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1794", "text": "Robespierre is beheaded in France." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1808", "text": "Sultan Mustapha of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1835", "text": "King Louis-Philippe of France survives an assassination attempt." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General Meade’s Army of the Potomac." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1868", "text": "The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1898", "text": "Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1914", "text": "Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1920", "text": "Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1932", "text": "The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1941", "text": "A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam)." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1945", "text": "A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1965", "text": "President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1988", "text": "Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for the first time in 21 years." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1990", "text": "A fire at an electrical substation causes a blackout in Chicago. Some 40,000 people were without power for up to three days." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"1996", "text": "Discovery of remains of a prehistoric man near Kennewick, Washington, casts doubts on accepted beliefs of when, how and where the Americas were populated." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"2005", "text": "Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"7", "year":"2005", "text": "Britain experiences its most costly tornado to date, causing 40 million Sterling Pounds of damage to Birmingham in just four minutes. There were no fatalities." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/29.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1588", "text": "The Spanish Armada is sighted off the coast of England." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1602", "text": "The Duke of Biron is executed in Paris for conspiring with Spain and Savoy against King Henry IV of France." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1603", "text": "Bartholomew Gilbert is killed in Virginia by Indians, during a search for the missing Roanoke colonists." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1693", "text": "The Army of the Grand Alliance is destroyed by the French at the Battle of Neerwinden." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1830", "text": "Liberals led by the Marquis of Lafayette seize Paris in opposition to the king’s restrictions on citizens’ rights." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1848", "text": "A rebellion against British rule is put down in Tipperary, Ireland." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1858", "text": "Japan signs a treaty of commerce and friendship with the United States." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederates are routed by Union guerrillas at Moore’s Mill, Missouri." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1875", "text": "Peasants in Bosnia and Herzegovina rebel against the Ottoman army." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1915", "text": "U.S. Marines land at Port-au-Prince to protect American interests in Haiti." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1921", "text": "Adolf Hitler becomes the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis)." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1945", "text": "After delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine. The survivors are adrift for two days before help arrives." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1981", "text": "Prince Charles marries Lady Diana." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1990", "text": "Boston Red Sox hit 12 doubles in a game, setting major league record." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"1996", "text": "A US federal court strikes down the child protection portion of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, calling it too broad." },
+        { "day":"29", "month":"7", "year":"2005", "text": "Astronomers announce discovery of dwarf planet Eris, leading the International Astronomic Union to clarify the definition of a planet." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/3.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1775", "text": "George Washington takes command of the Continental Army." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1790", "text": "In Paris, the Marquis of Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1844", "text": "American ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiates a commercial treaty with China." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate forces attack the center of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1878", "text": "John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1901", "text": "The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1903", "text": "The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1945", "text": "U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1950", "text": "U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1954", "text": "Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1962", "text": "Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"7", "year":"1967", "text": "North Vietnamese soldiers attack South Vietnam’s only producing coal mine at Nong Son." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1619", "text": "The House of Burgesses convenes for the first time at Jamestown, Va." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1787", "text": "The French parliament refuses to approve a more equitable land tax." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1799", "text": "The French garrison at Mantua, Italy, surrenders to the Austrians." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1864", "text": "In an effort to penetrate the Confederate lines around Petersburg, Va. Union troops explode a mine underneath the Confederate trenches but fail to break through. The ensuing action is known as the Battle of the Crater." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1919", "text": "Federal troops are called out to put down Chicago race riots." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1938", "text": "George Eastman demonstrates his color motion picture process." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1940", "text": "A bombing lull ends the first phase of the Battle of Britain." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1960", "text": "Over 60,000 Buddhists march in protest against the Diem government in South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1965", "text": "President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1967", "text": "General William Westmoreland claims that he is winning the war in Vietnam, but needs more men." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1975", "text": "Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears, last seen coming out of a restaurant in Bloomingfield Hills, Michigan." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1988", "text": "King Hussein dissolves Jordan’s Parliament, surrenders Jordan’s claims to the West Bank to the Palestinian Liberation Organization." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"1990", "text": "Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent forces George Steinbrenner to resign as principal parter of the New York Yankees." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"2003", "text": "The last of the uniquely shaped \"old style\" Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"7", "year":"2012", "text": "Blackout in India as power grid failure leaves 300 million+ without power." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/31.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"904", "text": "Arabs capture Thessalonica." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1703", "text": "English novelist Daniel Defoe is made to stand in the pillory as punishment for offending the government and church with his satire The Shortest Way With Dissenters." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1760", "text": "Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, drives the French army back to the Rhine River." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1790", "text": "The U.S. Patent Office opens." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1882", "text": "Belle and Sam Starr are charged with horse stealing in the Indian territory." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1875", "text": "Former president Andrew Johnson dies at the age of 66." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1891", "text": "Great Britain declares territories in Southern Africa up to the Congo to be within their sphere of influence." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1904", "text": "The Trans-Siberian railroad connecting the Ural mountains with Russia’s Pacific coast, is completed." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1917", "text": "The third Battle of Ypres commences as the British attack the German lines." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1932", "text": "Adolf Hitler’s Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis) doubles its strength in legislative elections." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "The Soviet army takes Kovno, the capital of Lithuania." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1962", "text": "Federation of Malaysia formally proposed." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1971", "text": "Apollo 15 astronauts take a drive on the moon in their land rover." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1987", "text": "An F4 tornado in Edmonton, Alberta kills 27 and causes $330 million in damages; the day is remembered as \"Black Friday.\"" },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1988", "text": "Bridge collapse at Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal in Butterworth, Malaysia, kills 32 and injures more than 1,600." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1990", "text": "Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1991", "text": "US and USSR sign a long-range nuclear weapons reduction pact." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"1999", "text": "NASA purposely crashes its Discovery Program’s Lunar Prospector into the moon, ending the agency’s mission to detect frozen water on Earth’s moon." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"2006", "text": "Fidel Castro temporarily hands over power to his brother Raul Castro." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"7", "year":"2007", "text": "The British Army’s longest continual operation, Operation Banner (1969-2007), ends as British troops withdraw from Northern Ireland." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/4.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1712", "text": "12 slaves are executed for starting a uprising in New York that killed nine whites." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1776", "text": "The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, is approved and signed by John Hancock–President of the Continental Congress–and Charles Thomson, Congress secretary. The state of New York abstains from signing." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1817", "text": "Construction begins on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1826", "text": "Two of America’s founding fathers–Thomas Jefferson and John Adams–die." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1831", "text": "The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, dies at the age of 73." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1845", "text": "Henry David Thoreau begins his 26-month stay at Walden Pond." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1855", "text": "Walt Whitman publishes the first edition of Leaves of Grass at his own expense." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1861", "text": "Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Harpers Ferry." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1862", "text": "Charles Dodgson first tells the story of Alice’s adventures down the rabbit hole during a picnic along the Thames." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "The Confederate town of Vicksburg, Mississippi, surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1881", "text": "Billy the Kid is shot dead in New Mexico." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1894", "text": "After seizing power, Judge Stanford B. Dole declares Hawaii a republic." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1895", "text": "The poem America the Beautiful is first published." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1901", "text": "William H. Taft becomes the American governor of the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1910", "text": "Race riots break out all over the United States after African American Jack Johnson knocks out Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1931", "text": "Novelist James Joyce and Nora Barnacle are married in London after being together for 26 years." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1934", "text": "Boxer Joe Louis wins his first professional fight." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1946", "text": "The United States grants the Philippine Islands their independence." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1960", "text": "The 50-star flag makes its debut in Philadelphia." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"7", "year":"1976", "text": "An Israeli raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda rescues 105 hostages." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1776", "text": "The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1806", "text": "A Spanish army repels the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1814", "text": "U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1832", "text": "The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1839", "text": "British naval forces bombard Dingai on Zhoushan Island in China and occupy it." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "Federal troops occupy Vicksburg, Mississippi and distribute supplies to the citizens." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1892", "text": "Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1940", "text": "Marshal Henri Petain’s Vichy government breaks off diplomatic relations with Great Britain." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1941", "text": "German troops reach the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1943", "text": "The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "The Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea, tries to counterattack but is soon beaten back by U.S. forces." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"7", "year":"1950", "text": "American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea." },
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/6.json

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1415", "text": "Jan Hus, a Czech who spoke out against Church corruption, is burned at the stake as a heretic." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1519", "text": "Charles of Spain is elected Holy Roman emperor in Barcelona." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1535", "text": "Sir Thomas More is beheaded in England for refusing to swear allegiance to King Henry VIII as head of the Church." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1536", "text": "Jaques Cartier returns to France after discovering the St. Lawrence River in Canada." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1685", "text": "James II defeats James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1770", "text": "The entire Ottoman fleet is destroyed by the Russians at the battle of Cesme." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1788", "text": "10,000 troops are called out in Paris as unrest mounts in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1836", "text": "French General Thomas Bugeaud defeats Abd al-Kader’s forces beside the Sikkak River in Algeria." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1835", "text": "John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell cracks." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1854", "text": "The Republican Party is officially organized in Jackson, Michigan." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1885", "text": "Louis Pasteur gives the first successful anti-rabies innoculation." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1944", "text": "Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1945", "text": "B-29 Superfortress bombers attack Honshu, Japan, using new fire-bombing techniques." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1945", "text": "Operation Overcast begins in Europe–moving Austrian and German scientists and their equipment to the United States." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"7", "year":"1982", "text": "President Ronald Reagan agrees to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beruit." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/7.json

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1742", "text": "A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony’s British defenders.The battle decides the fate of a colony." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1777", "text": "American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1791", "text": "Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1795", "text": "Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1798", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte’s army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1807", "text": "Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1814", "text": "Sir Walter Scott’s novel Waverly is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1815", "text": "After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1853", "text": "Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1925", "text": "Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1927", "text": "Christopher Stone becomes the first British ‘disc jockey’ when he plays records for the BBC." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1941", "text": "Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany’s hands." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1943", "text": "Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1966", "text": "The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1969", "text": "The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"7", "year":"1981", "text": "Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/8.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1099", "text": "Christian Crusaders march around Jerusalem as Muslims watch from within the city." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1608", "text": "The first French settlement at Quebec is established by Samuel de Champlain." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1663", "text": "The British crown grants Rhode Island a charter guaranteeing freedom of worship." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1686", "text": "The Austrians take Budapest from the Turks and annex Hungary." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1709", "text": "Peter the Great defeats Charles XII at Poltava, in the Ukraine, effectively ending the Swedish empire." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1755", "text": "Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with France as their disputes in the New World intensify." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1758", "text": "The British attack on Fort Carillon at Ticonderoga, New York, is foiled by the French." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1794", "text": "French troops capture Brussels, Belgium." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1815", "text": "With Napoleon defeated, Louis XVIII returns to Paris." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1822", "text": "29-year old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns while sailing in Italy." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1859", "text": "The Truce at Villafranca Austria cedes Lombardy to France." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1863", "text": "Demoralized by the surrender of Vicksburg, Confederates in Port Hudson, Louisiana, surrender to Union forces." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston retreats into Atlanta to prevent being flanked by Union General William T. Sherman." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1865", "text": "Four of the conspirators in President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination are hanged in Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1879", "text": "The first ship to use electric lights departs from San Francisco, California." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1905", "text": "The mutinous crew of the battleship Potemkin surrenders to Rumanian authorities." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1918", "text": "Ernest Hemingway is wounded in Italy while working as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1941", "text": "20 B-17s fly in their first mission with the Royal Air Force over Wilhelmshaven, Germany." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1943", "text": "American B-24 bombers strike Japanese-held Wake Island for the first time." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"7", "year":"1960", "text": "The Soviet Union charges American pilot Francis Gary Powers with espionage." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/7/9.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"118", "text": "Hadrian, Rome’s new emperor, makes his entry into the city." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"455", "text": "Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, becomes Emperor of the West." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1553", "text": "Maurice of Saxony is mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1609", "text": "Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of worship." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1755", "text": "General Edward Braddock is killed by French and Indian troops." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1789", "text": "In Versailles, the French National Assembly declares itself the Constituent Assembly and begins to prepare a French constitution." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1790", "text": "The Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1850", "text": "U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies in office at the age of 65. He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1861", "text": "Confederate cavalry led by John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1900", "text": "The Commonwealth of Australia is established by an act of British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1942", "text": "Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1943", "text": "American and British forces make an amphibious landing on Sicily." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"7", "year":"1971", "text": "The United States turns over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/1.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"902", "text": "The Aghlabid rulers of Ifriqiyah (modern day Tunisia) capture Taormina, Sicily." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1096", "text": "The crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Constantinople." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1464", "text": "Piero de Medici succeeds his father, Cosimo, as ruler of Florence." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1664", "text": "The Turkish army is defeated by French and German troops at St. Gotthard, Hungary." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1689", "text": "James II’s siege of Londonderry, Ireland, ends in failure. James’ force had suffered some 8,000 casualties to the defenders’ 3,600." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1740", "text": "Thomas Arne’s song \"Rule Britannia\" is performed for the first time." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1759", "text": "British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at the Battle of Minden, Germany." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1791", "text": "Robert Carter III, a Virginia plantation owner, frees all 500 of his slaves in the largest private emancipation in U.S. history. An 1839 mutiny aboard a Spanish ship in Cuban waters raised basic questions about freedom and slavery in the United States." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1798", "text": "Admiral Horatio Nelson routs the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay, Egypt." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1801", "text": "The American schooner Enterprise captures the Barbary cruiser Tripoli.Often venturing into harm’s way, America’s most famous sailing ship, the Constitution, twice came close to oblivion." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1834", "text": "Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Union General Ulysses S. Grant gives general Philip H. Sheridan the mission of clearing the Shenandoah Valley of Confederate forces.After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Virginia, suddenly collapsed." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1872", "text": "The first long-distance gas pipeline in the U.S. is completed. Designed for natural gas, the two-inch pipe ran five miles from Newton Wells to Titusville, Pennsylvania." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1873", "text": "San Francisco’s first cable cars begin running, operated by Hallidie’s Clay Street Hill Railroad Company." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1880", "text": "Sir Frederick Roberts frees the British Afghanistan garrison of Kandahar from Afghan rebels." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1893", "text": "A machine for making shredded wheat breakfast cereal is patented." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Germany declares war on Russia." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1937", "text": "The Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany becomes operational.The Nuremberg Trial brought high-ranking Nazis to justice." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1939", "text": "Synthetic vitamin K is produced for the first time." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "The Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo plane makes its first flight." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "Ensign Henry C. White, while flying a J4F Widgeon plane, sinks U-166 as it approaches the Mississippi River, the first U-boat sunk by the U.S. Coast Guard." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1943", "text": "Over 177 B-24 Liberator bombers attack the oil fields in Ploesti, Rumania, for a second time." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "The Polish underground begins an uprising against the occupying German army, as the Red Army approaches Warsaw." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1946", "text": "President Harry S Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "Lead elements of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division arrive in Korea from the United States." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1954", "text": "The Geneva Accords divide Vietnam into two countries at the 17th parallel." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1957", "text": "US and Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1960", "text": "Singer Chubby Checker releases \"The Twist,\" creating a new dance craze. The song had been released by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters the previous year but got little attention." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "Arthur Ashe becomes the first African-American to play on the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1966", "text": "Charles Whitman, shooting from the Texas Tower at the University of Texas, kills 16 people and wounds 31 before being killed himself." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"2004", "text": "In Asuncion, Paraguay, a fire in the Ycua Bolanos V supermarket complex kills nearly 400 people and injures 500." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "The I-35W bridge at Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"955", "text": "Otto organizes his nobles and defeats the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in Germany." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1539", "text": "King Francis of France declares that all official documents are to be written in French, not Latin." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1557", "text": "French troops are defeated by Emmanuel Philibert’s Spanish army at St. Quentin, France." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1582", "text": "Russia ends its 25-year war with Poland." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1628", "text": "The Swedish warship Vasa capsizes and sinks in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1779", "text": "Louis XVI of France frees the last remaining serfs on royal land." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1831", "text": "William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts, is the first to use the term \"Old Glory\" in connection with the American flag, when he gives that name to a large flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1846", "text": "The Smithsonian Institution is established in Washington through the bequest of James Smithson." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate Commander John Bell Hood sends his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union General William Sherman’s supply lines." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1911", "text": "The House of Lords in Great Britain gives up its veto power, making the House of Commons the more powerful House." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1913", "text": "The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "Great Britain and the Soviet Union promise aid to Turkey if it is attacked by the AxisPowers." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1949", "text": "National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "President Harry S. Truman calls the National Guard to active duty to fight in the Korean War." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1954", "text": "English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires with a world-record total of 4,870 victories, later broken by Johnny Longden of the United States. Richards was the first jockey ever to be knighted." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1954", "text": "The groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held at Massena, New York." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1960", "text": "NASA launches Discoverer 13 satellite; it would become the first object ever recovered from orbit." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1970", "text": "Rocker Jim Morrison tried in Miami on \"lewd & lascivious behavior.\" Although convicted and sentenced to jail, he was free on bond while his case was being appealed when he died in Paris, July 3, 1971." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "David Frost purchases the exclusive rights to interview Richard Nixon." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "US and Panama sign Panama Canal Zone accord, guaranteeing Panama would have control of the canal after 1999." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"1997", "text": "The last British troops leave Hong Kong. After 156 years of British rule, the island is returned to China." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "For the first time ever, temperatures exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit when thermometers hit 101.3 F (38.5 Celsius)  at Kent." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"8", "year":"2006", "text": "All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes after Scotland Yard disrupts a a major terrorist plot involving liquid explosives. After a few weeks, the toiletries ban was modified." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/11.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"991", "text": "Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Brihtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1492", "text": "Rodrigo Borgia is elected to the papacy as Pope Alexander VI." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1792", "text": "A revolutionary commune is formed in Paris, France." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1856", "text": "A band of rampaging settlers in California kill four Yokut Indians. The settlers had heard unproven rumors of Yokut atrocities." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1904", "text": "German General Lothar von Trotha defeats the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1906", "text": "In France, Eugene Lauste receives the first patent for a talking film." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1908", "text": "Britain’s King Edward VII meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1912", "text": "Moroccan Sultan Mulai Hafid abdicates his throne in the face of internal dissent." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1916", "text": "The Russia army takes Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1929", "text": "Babe Ruth hits his 500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "Soviet bombers raid Berlin but cause little damage." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The German submarine U-73 attacks a Malta-bound British convoy and sinks HMS Eagle, one of the world’s first aircraft carriers." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "German troops abandon Florence, Italy, as Allied troops close in on the historic city." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "A small clash between the California Highway Patrol and two black youths sets off six days of rioting in the Watts area of Los Angeles." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "US vetoes admission of North and South Vietnam to UN." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Funeral of Pope Paul VI." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1984", "text": "Carl Lewis wins four Olympic gold medals, tying the record Jesse Owens set in 1936." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Al Qaeda formed at a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings around Neptune." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Troops from Egypt and Morocco arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the international operation to prevent Iraq from invading." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"1999", "text": "A tornado in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, kills one person." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "Temperatures rise to 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius); over 140 people die in the heat wave." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "NATO assumes command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, its first major operation outside Europe." }
+      ]
+   }
+]