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data/data/8/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"30 BC", "text": "Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, commits suicide." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1099", "text": "At the Battle of Ascalon 1,000 Crusaders, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, route an Egyptian relief column heading for Jerusalem, which had already fallen to the Crusaders." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1687", "text": "At the Battle of Mohacs, Hungary, Charles of Lorraine defeats the Turks." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1762", "text": "The British capture Cuba from Spain after a two month siege." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1791", "text": "Black slaves on the island of Santo Domingo rise up against their white masters." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1812", "text": "British commander the Duke of Wellington occupies Madrid, Spain, forcing out Joseph Bonaparte." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate raider William Quantrill leads a massacre of 150 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "After a week of heavy raiding, the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee claims six Union ships captured." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1896", "text": "Gold is discovered near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. After word reaches the United States in June of 1897, thousands of Americans head to the Klondike to seek their fortunes." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1898", "text": "The Spanish American War officially ends after three months and 22 days of hostilities." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1908", "text": "Henry Ford’s first Model T rolls off the assembly line." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1922", "text": "The home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. is dedicated as a memorial." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1935", "text": "President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain announces full French collaboration with Nazi Germany." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1961", "text": "The erection of the Berlin Wall begins, preventing access between East and West Germany." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1969", "text": "American installations at Quan-Loi, Vietnam, come under Viet Cong attack." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "As U.S. troops leave Vietnam, B-52’s make their largest strike of the war." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "Steven Biko, leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, is arrested." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "Space shuttle Enterprise makes its first free flight and landing." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Tel al-Zaatar massacre at Palestinian refuge camp during Lebanese Civil War." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Massive book burnings by press censors begin in Iran." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "Computer giant IBM introduces its first personal computer." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1985", "text": "Highest in-flight death toll as 520 die when  Japan Airlines Flight 123  crashes into Mount Takamagahara." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"1992", "text": "The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is concluded between the United States, Canada and Mexico, creating the world’s wealthiest trade bloc." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"2000", "text": "Russian Navy submarine K-141 Kursk explodes and sinks with all hands during military exercises in the Barents Sea." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"2005", "text": "An LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) sniper mortally wounds Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, at the minister’s home." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "Summer Olympics come to a close in London." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1521", "text": "Cortes captures the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, and sets it on fire." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1630", "text": "Emperor Ferdinand II dismisses Albert Eusebius van Wallenstein, his most capable general." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1680", "text": "War starts when the Spanish are expelled from Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Indians under Chief Pope." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1704", "text": "The Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Austria defeat the French Army at the Battle of Blenheim." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1787", "text": "The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army under Thomas Crittenden at Murfreesboro, Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1881", "text": "The first African-American nursing school opens at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1889", "text": "The first coin-operated telephone is patented by William Gray." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1892", "text": "The first issue of the Afro American newspaper is published in Baltimore, Maryland." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1898", "text": "Manila, the capital of the Philippines, falls to the U.S. Army." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1910", "text": "British nurse Florence Nightingale, famous for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, dies." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1932", "text": "Adolf Hitler refuses to serve as Franz Von Papen’s vice chancellor." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1948", "text": "During the Berlin Airlift, the weather over Berlin becomes so stormy that American planes have their most difficult day landing supplies. They deem it ‘Black Friday.’" },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1961", "text": "Construction begins on Berlin Wall during the night." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "A 17 year-old Buddhist monk burns himself to death in Saigon, South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Bomb attack in Beirut during Second Lebanese Civil War kills more than 150 people." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "The wreckage of a plane that carried U.S. congressman Mickey Leland and others on a humanitarian mission is found on a mountain side in Ethiopia; there are no survivors." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"8", "year":"1993", "text": "US Court of Appeals rules Congress must save all emails." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1457", "text": "The first book ever printed is published by a German astrologer named Faust. He is thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1559", "text": "Spanish explorer de Luna enters Pensacola Bay, Florida." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1605", "text": "The Popham expedition reaches the Sagadahoc River in present-day Maine and settles there." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1756", "text": "French commander Louis Montcalm takes Fort Oswego, New England, from the British." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1793", "text": "Republican troops in France lay siege to the city of Lyons." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1900", "text": "The European allies enter Beijing, relieving their besieged legations from the Chinese Boxers." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1917", "text": "The Chinese Parliament declares war on the Central Powers." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "Dwight D. Eisenhower is named the Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Japan announces its unconditional surrender in World War II." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1947", "text": "Pakistan becomes an independent country." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1969", "text": "British troops arrived Northern Ireland in response to sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1973", "text": "The United States ends the \"secret\" bombing of Cambodia." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "Mark McGwire hits his 49th home run of the season, setting the major league home run record for a rookie." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"1995", "text": "Shannon Faulker becomes the first female cadet in the long history of South Carolina’s state military college, The Citadel. Her presence was met with intense resistance, reportedly including death threats, and she left the school a week later." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "Four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks in Yazidi towns near Mosul, Iraq, kill more than 400 people." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"8", "year":"2010", "text": "First-ever Summer Youth Olympic Games open, in Singapore. Athletes must be 14–18 years old." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/15.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1261", "text": "Constantinople falls to Michael VIII of Nicea and his army." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1385", "text": "John of Portugal defeats John of Castile at the Battle of Aljubarrota." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1598", "text": "Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, leads an Irish force to victory over the British at Battle of Yellow Ford." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1760", "text": "Frederick II defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Liegnitz." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "The Confederate raider Tallahassee captures six Federal ships off New England." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1872", "text": "The first ballot voting in England is conducted." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "The Panama Canal opens to traffic." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1935", "text": "American comedian and \"cowboy philosopher\" Will Rogers dies in an airplane accident, along with American aviation pioneer Wiley Post." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The Japanese submarine I-25 departs Japan with a floatplane in its hold which will be assembled upon arriving off the West Coast of the United States, and used to bomb U.S. forests." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "American, British and French forces land on the southern coast of France, between Toulon and Cannes, in Operation Dragoon." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Gasoline and fuel oil rationing ends in the United States." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1947", "text": "Britain grants independence to India and Pakistan." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "Two U.S. divisions are badly mauled by the North Korean Army at the Battle of the Bowling Alley in South Korea, which rages on for five more days." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1969", "text": "Over 400,000 young people attend a weekend of rock music at Woodstock, New York." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "US President Richard Nixon announces a 90-day freeze on wages and prices in an attempt to halt rapid inflation." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "Ignoring objections from President Ronald Reagan’s Administration, US Senate approves economic sanctions against South Africa to protest that country’s apartheid policies." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "US Social Security Administration, previously part of the Department of Health and Human Services, becomes an independent government agency." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "Infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal captured in Khartoum, Sudan." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"2001", "text": "Astronomers announce the first solar system discovered outside our own; two planets had been found orbiting a star in the Big Dipper." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "An earthquake of 8.0 magnitude kills over 500 and injures more than 1,000 in Peru." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/16.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1513", "text": "Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian defeat the French at Guinegatte, France, in the Battle of the Spurs." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1777", "text": "France declares a state of bankruptcy." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1780", "text": "American troops are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1812", "text": "American General William Hull surrenders Detroit without resistance to a smaller British force under General Issac Brock." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1858", "text": "U.S. President James Buchanan and Britain’s Queen Victoria exchange messages inaugurating the first transatlantic telegraph line." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1861", "text": "Union and Confederate forces clash near Fredericktown and Kirkville, Missouri." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "Union General William S. Rosecrans moves his army south from Tullahoma, Tennessee to attack Confederate forces in Chattanooga." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1896", "text": "Gold is discovered in the Klondike of Canada’s Yukon Territory, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "The Watts riots end in south-central Los Angeles after six days." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack in the upstairs bedroom suite area of his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1984", "text": "The safe of the sunken ocean liner Andrea Doria is opened on TV after three decades, revealing cash and certificates but no other valuables." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "Sudanese rebels shoot down a Sudanese Airways plane, killing 57 people." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "Astrological alignment of sun, moon and six planets marks what believers maintain is the dawning of a New Age." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "IBM introduces artificial intelligence software." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Iraq orders 2,500 Americans and 4,000 British nationals in Kuwait to Iraq, in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of that country." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "In South Africa police fire on striking mine workers, killing at least 34." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/17.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1743", "text": "By the Treaty of Abo, Sweden cedes southeast Finland to Russia, ending Sweden’s failed war with Russia." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1812", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte’s army defeats the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian retreat to Moscow." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1833", "text": "The first steam ship to cross the Atlantic entirely on its own power, the Canadian ship Royal William, begins her journey from Nova Scotia to The Isle of Wight." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "Union gunboats attack Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first time." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "Marine Raiders attack Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands from two submarines." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1943", "text": "Allied forces complete the conquest of Sicily." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Upon hearing confirmation that Japan has surrendered, Sukarno proclaims Indonesia’s independence." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1960", "text": "American Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial for spying over the Soviet Union in a U-2 plane." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Three Americans complete the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq is killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1998", "text": "President Bill Clinton admits to the American public that he had affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"1999", "text": "A 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Izmit, Turkey kills over 17,000 and injures nearly 45,000." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"2005", "text": "Israel begins the first forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of a unilateral disengagement plan." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "Moscow’s top court upholds ban of gay pride events in Russia’s capital city for 100 years." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/18.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1587", "text": "In the Roanoke Island colony, Ellinor and Ananias Dare become parents of a baby girl whom they name Virginia, the first English child born in what would become the United States." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1590", "text": "John White, the leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina) to establish a colony, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers is ever found." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1698", "text": "After invading Denmark and capturing Sweden, Charles XII of Sweden forces Frederick IV of Denmark to sign the Peace of Travendal." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1759", "text": "The French fleet is destroyed by the British under “Old Dreadnought” Boscawen at the battle of Lagos Bay." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1782", "text": "Poet and artist William Blake marries Catherine Sophia Boucher." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart’s headquarters is raided by Union troops of the 5th New York and 1st Michigan cavalries." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Union General William T. Sherman sends General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate lines of communication outside Atlanta. The raid is unsuccessful." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1870", "text": "Prussian forces defeat the French at the Battle of Gravelotte during the Franco-Prussian War." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1898", "text": "Adolph Ochs takes over the New York Times, saying his aim is to give “the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it early, if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other medium.”" },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Germany declares war on Russia while President Woodrow Wilson issues his Proclamation of Neutrality." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1920", "text": "Tennessee becomes the thirty-sixth state to ratify the nineteenth amendment granting women’s sufferage, completing the three-quarters necessary to put the amendment into effect." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1929", "text": "The first cross-country women’s air derby begins. Louise McPhetride Thaden wins first prize in the heavier-plane division, while Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie finishes first in the lighter-plane category." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1939", "text": "The film The Wizard of Oz opens in New York City." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "Japan sends a crack army to Guadalcanal to repulse the U.S. Marines fighting there." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1943", "text": "The Royal Air Force Bomber Command completes the first major strike against the German missile development facility at Peenemunde." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "James Meredith, the first African American to attend University of Mississippi, graduates." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "Operation Starlite marks the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1966", "text": "Australian troops repulse a Viet Cong attack at Long Tan." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1969", "text": "Two concert goers die at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1973", "text": "Hank Aaron makes his 1,378 extra-base hit, surpassing Stan Musial’s record." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1974", "text": "Luna 24, the USSR’s final major lunar exploration mission, soft-lands on moon." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini demands a “Saint War” against Kurds." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1982", "text": "Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life terms for poisoning 24 patients." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Republican Convention in New Orleans nominate the George H.W. Bush-Dan Quayle ticket." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "A group of hard-line communist leaders unhappy with the drift toward the collapse of the Soviet Union seize control of the government in Moscow and place President Mikhail S. Gorbachev under house arrest" },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1993", "text": "Historic Kapelbrug (chapel bridge) in Luzern, Switzerland, burns, destroying 147 of its decorative paintings. It was built in 1365." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"1992", "text": "Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer receives 10 consecutive life sentences. He had terrorized Wichita, Kansas, murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"2010", "text": "Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, is found handcuffed, blindfolded and dead following his abduction three days earlier. He had championed crackdowns on organized crime and police corruption." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"8", "year":"2011", "text": "Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1493", "text": "Maximilian succeeds his father Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1587", "text": "Sigismund III is chosen to be the king of Poland." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1692", "text": "Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of witchcraft. Fourteen more people are executed that year and 150 others are imprisoned." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1772", "text": "Gustavus III of Sweden eliminates the rule of parties and establishes an absolute monarchy." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1779", "text": "Americans under Major Henry Lee take the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1812", "text": "The USS Constitution earns the nickname \"Old Ironsides\" during the battle off Nova Scotia that saw her defeat the HMS Guerriere." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) lands in France." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1934", "text": "38 million Germans vote to make Adolf Hitler the official successor to President von Hindenburg." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1936", "text": "Spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca is shot by Franco’s troops after being forced to dig his own grave." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "A raid on Dieppe, France by British and Canadian commandos is repulsed by the German Army." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "In an effort to prevent a communist uprising in Paris, Charles DeGualle begins attacking German forces all around the city." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "Edith Sampson becomes the first African-American representative to the United Nations." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1957", "text": "The first balloon flight to exceed 100,000 feet takes off from Crosby, Minnesota." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "US forces destroy a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1974", "text": "US Ambassador to Cyrus Rodger P. Davies assassinated by a sniper of Greek Cypriot paramilitary group EOKA-B during a demonstration outside the embassy in Nicosia." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1976", "text": "Gerald R Ford, who had become President of the United States after Richard Nixon resigned, wins Republican Party’s presidential nomination at Kansas City convention." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "Hungerford Massacre in the UK; armed with semi-automatic rifles and a handgun Michael Ryan kills 16 people before committing suicide. In response, Parliament passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act of 1988 banning ownership of certain classes of firearms." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Cease fire begins in 8-year war between Iran and Iraq." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Communist hard-liners place President Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest in an attempted coup that failed two days later." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"2002", "text": "A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "Shmuel Hanavi bus bombing: suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, some of them children, and wounds 130. Islamist militant group Hamas claims responsibility for the attack." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"2004", "text": "Google Inc. stock begins selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with an initial price of $85; the stock ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"2005", "text": "Toronto Supercell: A series of thunderstorms spawn several tornadoes and cause flash floods in Southern Ontario. Losses exceed $500 million Canadian dollars, the highest ever in the province." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"8", "year":"2010", "text": "Operation Iraqi Freedom ends; the last US combat brigade, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, leaves the country. Six brigades remain to train Iraqi troops." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"216 BC", "text":  "Hannibal Barca wins his greatest victory over the Romans at Cannae. After avidly studying the tactics of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus eventually bested his Carthaginian adversary." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"47 BC", "text":  "Caesar defeats Pharnaces at Zela in Syria and declares, \"veni, vidi, vici,\" (I came, I saw, I conquered)." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1552", "text":  "The treaty of Passau gives religious freedom to Protestants living in Germany." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1553", "text":  "An invading French army is destroyed at the Battle of Marciano in Italy by an imperial army." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1589", "text":  "During France’s religious war, a fanatical monk stabs King Henry II to death." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1776", "text":  "The Continental Congress, having decided unanimously to make the Declaration of Independence, affixes the signatures of the other delegates to the document." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1790", "text":  "The first US census begins enumerating the population." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1802", "text":  "Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed \"Consul for Life\" by the French Senate after a plebiscite from the French people." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1819", "text":  "The first parachute jump from a balloon is made by Charles Guille in New York City." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1832", "text":  "Troops under General Henry Atkinson massacre Sauk Indian men, women and children who are followers of Black Hawk at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin. Black Hawk himself finally surrenders three weeks later, bringing the Black Hawk War to an end." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1847", "text":  "William A. Leidesdorff launches the first steam boat in San Francisco Bay." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text":  "Union General John Pope captures Orange Court House, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text":  "The Army Ambulance Corps is established by Maj. Gen. George McClellan." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1876", "text":  "Wild Bill Hickok is shot while playing poker." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text":  "Germany invades Luxembourg." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1918", "text":  "A British force lands in Archangel, Russia, to support White Russian opposition to the Bolsheviks." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1923", "text":  "Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president upon the death of Warren G. Harding." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1934", "text":  "German President Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1943", "text":  "Lt. John F. Kennedy, towing an injured sailor, swims to a small island in the Solomon Islands. The night before, his boat, PT-109, had been split in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text":  "The U.S. First Provisional Marine Brigade arrives in Korea from the United States." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text":  "U.S. destroyer Maddoxis reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text":  "Newsman Morley Safer films the destruction of a Vietnamese village by U.S. Marines." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text":  "Iraqi forces invade neighboring Kuwait." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"8", "year":"1997", "text":  "Author William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), considered the godfather of the \"Beat Generation\" in American literature, dies at age 83." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"917", "text": "A Byzantine counter-offensive is routed by Syeon at Anchialus, Bulgaria." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1619", "text": "The first group of twenty Africans is brought to Jamestown, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1667", "text": "John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1741", "text": "Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering, commisioned by Peter the Great of Russia to find land connecting Asia and North America, discovers America." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1794", "text": "American General \"Mad Anthony\" Wayne defeats the Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Northwest territory, ending Indian resistance in the area." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1847", "text": "General Winfield Scott wins the battle of Churubusco on his drive to Mexico City." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1904", "text": "Dublin’s Abbey Theatre is founded, an outgrowth of the Irish Literary Theatre founded in 1899 by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1908", "text": "The American Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to a warm welcome." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1913", "text": "700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegond becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Russia wins an early victory over Germany at Gumbinnen." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1940", "text": "After a previous machine gun attack failed, exiled Russian Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City, with an alpine ax to the back of the head." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1940", "text": "Radar is used for the first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain. Also on this day, in a radio broadcast, Winston Churchill makes his famous homage to the Royal Air Force: \"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\"" },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "Adolf Hitler authorizes the development of the V-2 missile." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "United States and British forces close the pincers on German units in the Falaise-Argentan pocket in France." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1953", "text": "USSR publicly acknowledges it tested a hydrogen bomb eight days earlier." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1955", "text": "Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1960", "text": "USSR recovers 2 dogs, Belka and Strelka, the first animals to be launched into orbit and returned alive (Sputnik 5)." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1961", "text": "East Germany begins erecting a wall along western border to replace barbed wire put up Aug 13; US 1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry Division arrives in West Berlin." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "US President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion, as part of his War on Poverty." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1968", "text": "Some 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to quell reformers there." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "The Cambodian military launches a series of operations against the Khmer Rouge." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1974", "text": "US Vice President Gerald Ford, who had replaced Spiro Agnew, assumes the Office of the President after Richard Nixon resigns; Ford names Nelson Rockefeller as VP." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "NASA launches Viking 1; with Viking 2, launched a few days later, provided high-resolution mapping of Mars, revolutionizing existing views of the planets." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "The Penmanshiel Diversion on the  the East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland opens, replacing the 134-year-old Penmanshiel Tunnel that had collapsed in March." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1980", "text": "UN Security Council condemns Israel’s declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital; vote is 14-0, with US abstaining." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1982", "text": "A multinational force including 800 US Marines lands in Beirut, Lebanon, to oversee Palestinan withdrawal during the Lebanese Civil War." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "Part-time mail carrier Patrick Sherrill shoots 20 fellow workers killing 14 at Edmond Okla., the first mass shooting by an individual in an office environment in the US. His actions give rise to the phrase \"going postal,\" for sudden violent outbursts." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations to use them as human shields against air attacks by a US-led multinational coalition." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "After an attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares independence from the USSR." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1993", "text": "Secret negotiations in Norway lead to agreement on the Oslo Peace Accords, an attempt to resolve the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "Miracle, the Sacred White Buffalo, born on Heider Farm near Janesville, Wisc. The first white (not albino) buffalo born since 1933, she was a important religious symbol for many US and Canadian Indian tribes." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1998", "text": "The Supreme Court of Canada rules Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"1998", "text": "US launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"8", "year":"2002", "text": "A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein seize the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin; after five hours they release their hostages and surrender." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1129", "text": "The warrior Yoritomo is made Shogun without equal in Japan." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1525", "text": "Estavao Gomes returns to Portugal after failing to find a clear waterway to Asia." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1794", "text": "France surrenders the island of Corsica to the British." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1808", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte’s General Junot is defeated by Wellington at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimiero, Portugal." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1831", "text": "Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that kills close to 60 whites." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1858", "text": "The first of a series of debates begins between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Douglas goes on to win the Senate seat in November, but Lincoln gains national visibility for the first time." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate raiders under William Quantrill strike Lawrence, Kansas, leaving 150 civilians dead." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1915", "text": "Italy declares war on Turkey." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "U.S. Marines turn back the first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal in the Battle of Tenaru." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays the foundation for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "President Harry S. Truman cancels all contracts under the Lend-Lease Act." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1959", "text": "Hawaii is admitted into the Union." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "The South Vietnamese Army arrests over 100 Buddhist monks in Saigon." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1968", "text": "Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia because of the country’s experiments with a more liberal government." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1976", "text": "Mary Langdon in Battle, East Sussex, becomes Britain’s first firewoman." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1976", "text": "Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "In Cameroon 2,000 die from poison gas from a volcanic eruption." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Ceasefire in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Communist hardliners’ coup is crushed in USSR after just 2 days; Latvia declares independence from USSR." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexico’s presidential election." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"1996", "text": "The new Globe theater opens in England." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"2000", "text": "Tiger Woods wins golf’s PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"8", "year":"2001", "text": "NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/22.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1350", "text": "John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1485", "text": "Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1642", "text": "Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1717", "text": "The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1777", "text": "With the approach of General Benedict Arnold’s army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1849", "text": "The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1911", "text": "The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1922", "text": "Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in repsonse to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1952", "text": "Devil’s Island’s penal colony is permanently closed." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1956", "text": "Incumbent US President Dwight D. Eisenhower & Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1962", "text": "OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth’s novel, The Day of the Jackal." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1962", "text": "The world’s first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1968", "text": "First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1969", "text": "Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country’s racist policies." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "US president Gerald Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1983", "text": "Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos’ reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "First complete ring around Neptune discovered." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"1995", "text": "During 11-day siege at at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building’s lobby." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"2005", "text": "Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/23.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1244", "text": "Turks expel the crusaders under Frederick II from Jerusalem." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1305", "text": "Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1541", "text": "Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec on his third voyage to North America." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1711", "text": "A British attempt to invade Canada by sea fails." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1775", "text": "King George III of England refuses the American colonies’ offer of peace and declares them in open rebellion." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1821", "text": "After 11 years of war, Spain grants Mexican independence as a constitutional monarchy." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "Union batteries cease their first bombardment of Fort Sumter, leaving it a mass of rubble but still unconquered by the Northern besiegers." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1900", "text": "Booker T. Washington forms the National Negro Business League in Boston, Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1902", "text": "Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of diet to health, opens her School of Cookery in Boston." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "The Emperor of Japan declares war on Germany." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1926", "text": "American film star Rudolph Valentino dies, causing world-wide hysteria and a number of suicides." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1927", "text": "Immigrant laborers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for a robbery they did not commit. Fifty years later, in 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis establishes a memorial in the victims’ honor." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1939", "text": "Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, freeing Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "German forces begin an assault on the major Soviet industrial city of Stalingrad." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "German SS engineers begin placing explosive charges around the Eiffel Tower in Paris." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "Up to 77,000 members of the U.S. Army Organized Reserve Corps are called involuntarily to active duty to fight the Korean War." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1952", "text": "Arab League security pact linking seven Arab States in a military, political and economic alliance goes into effect." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1954", "text": "First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1958", "text": "The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins: People’s Liberation Army bombards island of Quemoy during Chinese Civil War." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1961", "text": "Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi during bloody Tutsi-Hutu conflict." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1966", "text": "Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of Earth from the moon." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "Pathet Lao communists occupy Vientiane, Laos." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "Bryan Allen, piloting the Gossamer Condor, wins the Kremer prize for the first human-powered aircraft to fly a one-mile, figure-eight course." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Armenia declares independence from USSR." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "East and West Germany announce they will unite on Oct 3." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"1996", "text": "Osama bin Laden issues message entitled \"A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.\"" },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"2006", "text": "Natascha Kampusch,  was abducted at the age of 10 in Austria, escapes from her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"2011", "text": "Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"8", "year":"2011", "text": "A 5.8 earthquake centered at Mineral, Virginia, damages the Washington Monument, forcing the landmark to close for repairs." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"79", "text": "Mount Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum and other smaller settlements." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"410", "text": "German barbarians sack Rome." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1542", "text": "In South America, Gonzalo Pizarro returns to the mouth of the Amazon River after having sailed the length of the great river as far as the Andes Mountains." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1572", "text": "Some 50,000 people are put to death in the ‘Massacre of St. Bartholomew’ as Charles IX of France attempts to rid the country of Huguenots." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1780", "text": "King Louis XVI abolishes torture as a means to get suspects to confess." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1814", "text": "British troops under General Robert Ross capture Washington, D.C., which they set on fire in retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York (Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1847", "text": "Charlotte Bronte, using the pseudonym Currer Bell, sends a manuscript of Jane Eyre to her publisher in London." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1869", "text": "Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, patents the waffle iron." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1891", "text": "Thomas Edison files a patent for the motion picture camera." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1894", "text": "Congress passes the first graduated income tax law, which is declared unconstitutional the next year." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1896", "text": "Thomas Brooks is shot and killed by an unknown assailant begining a six year feud with the McFarland family." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1912", "text": "By an act of Congress, Alaska is given a territorial legislature of two houses." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "In the battle of the Eastern Solomons, the third carrier-versus-carrier battle of the war, U.S. naval forces defeat a Japanese force attempting to screen reinforcements for the Guadalcanal fighting." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1948", "text": "Edith Mae Irby becomes the first African-American student to attend the University of Arkansas." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1954", "text": "Congress outlaws the Communist Party in the United States." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "US State Department cables embassy in Saigon that if South Vietnam’s president Ngo Dinh Diem does not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu as his political adviser the US would explore alternative leadership, setting the stage for a coup by ARVN generals." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "The principal leaders of Greece’s 1967 coup—Georgios Papadopoulos, Stylianos Pattakos, and Nikolaos Maarezos—sentenced to death for high treason, later commuted to life in prison." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "Mark David Chapman sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "Colombian drug lords declare \"total and absolute war\" on Colombia’s government, booming the offices of two political parties and burning two politicians’ homes." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti bans Pete Rose from baseball for gambling." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Comunist Party of the Soviet Union; Ukraine declares its independence from USSR." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1992", "text": "Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Florida. The Category 5 storm, which had already caused extensive damage in the Bahamas, caused $26.5 billion in US damages, caused 65 deaths, and felled 70,000 acres of trees in the Everglades." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) create initial accord regarding partial self-rule for Palestinians living on the West Bank, the Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"2004", "text": "Chechnyan suicide bombers blow up two airliners near Moscow, killing 89 passengers." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"2006", "text": "Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines \"planet.\"" },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"8", "year":"2010", "text": "The Mexican criminal syndicate Los Zetas kills 72 illegal immigrants from Central and South America in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"357", "text": "Julian Caesar defeats the Alamanni at Strousbourg in Gaul." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1346", "text": "Edward III of England defeats Philip VI’s army at the Battle of Crecy in France." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1758", "text": "The Prussian army defeats the invading Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1765", "text": "In protest over the stamp tax, American colonists sack and burn the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1830", "text": "The \"Tom Thumb\" steam locomotive runs its famous race with a horse-drawn car. The horse wins because the engine, which had been ahead, breaks down." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "Union and Confederate troops skirmish at Waterloo Bridge, Virginia, during the Second Bull Run Campaign." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate General A.P. Hill pushes back Union General Winfield Scott Hancock from Reams Station where his army has spent several days destroying railroad tracks." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1875", "text": "\"Captain\" Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim across the English Channel." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1916", "text": "The National Park Service is established as part of the Department of the Interior." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1921", "text": "The United States, which never ratified the Versailles Treaty ending World War I, finally signs a peace treaty with Germany." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1925", "text": "A. Phillip Randolph organizes the Sleeping Car Porters’ Union." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1940", "text": "The first parachute wedding ceremony is performed by Rev. Homer Tomlinson at the New York City World’s Fair for Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward. The minister, bride and groom, best man, maid of honor and four musicians were all suspended from parachutes." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "British and Soviet forces enter Iran, opening up a route to supply the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1943", "text": "The Allies complete the occupation of New Georgia." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "Paris is liberated from German occupation by Free French Forces under General Jacques LeClerc." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1948", "text": "The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1980", "text": "Zimbabwe joins the United Nations." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "NASA scientists receive stuning photographs of Neptune and its moons from Voyager 2." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "Mayumi Moiyama, formerly head of Japan’s Environmental Agency, becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary" },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "The Airbus A340 makes its first flight." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Belarus gains independence from the USSR." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Croatian War of Independence: Battle of Vukovar begins, an 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "Severe flooding in Myanmar." }
+      ]
+   }
+]