facts_by_date 1.0.0 → 1.1.0

data/data/8/26.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1071", "text": "Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manzikert, Eastern Turkey." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1429", "text": "Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1789", "text": "The Constituent Assembly in Versailles, France, approves the final version of the Declaration of Human Rights." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson seizes Manassas Junction, Virginia, and moves to encircle Union forces under General John Pope." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1883", "text": "The Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupts in the largest explosion recorded in history, heard 2,200 miles away in Madagascar. The resulting destruction sends volcanic ash up 50 miles into the atmosphere and kills almost 36,000 people–both on the island itself and from the resulting 131-foot tidal waves that obliterate 163 villages on the shores of nearby Java and Sumatra." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1920", "text": "The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is officially ratified, giving women the right to vote." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1943", "text": "The United States recognizes the French Committee of National Liberation." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1957", "text": "Ford Motor Company reveals the Edsel, its latest luxury car." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1966", "text": "South African Defense Force troops attack a People’s Liberation Army of Nambia at Omugulugwombashe, the first battle of the 22-year Namibian War of Independence." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1970", "text": "A nationwide Women’s Strike for Equality, led by Betty Friedan on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment calls attention to unequal pay and other gender inequalities in America." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "The National Assembly of Quebec adopts Bill 101, Charter of the French Language, making French the official language of the Canadian province." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Albino Luciani elected to the Papacy and chooses the name Pope John Paul I ; his 33-day reign is among the shortest in Papal history." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Sigmund Jähn becomes first German to fly in space, on board Soviet Soyuz 31." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"8", "year":"1999", "text": "Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/27.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1626", "text": "The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1776", "text": "The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1793", "text": "Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1813", "text": "The Allies defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1861", "text": "Union troops make an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "As the Second Battle of Bull Run rages, Confederate soldiers attack Loudoun County, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1881", "text": "New York state’s Pure Food Law goes into effect to prevent \"the adulteration of food or drugs.\"" },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1894", "text": "The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1910", "text": "Thomas Edison demonstrates the first \"talking\" pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey laboratory." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1912", "text": "Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1916", "text": "Italy declares war on Germany." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1928", "text": "Fifteen nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, outlawing war and calling for the settlement of disputes through arbitration. Forty-seven other countries eventually sign the pact." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumimaro Konoye, issues an invitation for a meeting with President Roosevelt." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "Cambodia severs ties with South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "Veronica & Colin Scargill of England complete tandem bicycle ride around the world, a record 18,020 miles (29,000.4 km)." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Lord Mountbatten is killed by an Irish terrorist bomb in his sail boat in Sligo, Ireland." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1984", "text": "President Ronald Reagan announces NASA Teacher in Space project, intended to inspire students and honor teachers and spur interest in the fields of science, mathematics and space exploration." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "Chuck Berry performs his tune Johnny B. Goode for NASA staff in celebration of Voyager II‘s encounter with the planet Neptune." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Moldavia declares independence from USSR." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"1993", "text": "The Rainbow Bridge, a 1,870-foot suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay, completed." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing within 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km)." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"2008", "text": "Democrats nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American nominated by a major political party for the office of President of the United States." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/28.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1676", "text": "Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, is killed by English soldiers, ending the war between Indians and colonists." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "Mistakenly believing the Confederate Army to be in retreat, Union General John Pope attacks, beginning the Battle of Groveten. Both sides sustain heavy casualties." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Three German cruisers are sunk by ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of World War I." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1938", "text": "The first degree given to a ventriloquist’s dummy is awarded to Charlie McCarthy–Edgar Bergen’s wooden partner. The honorary degree, \"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback,\" is presented on radio by Ralph Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "The German U-boat U-570 is captured by the British and renamed Graph" },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "German forces in Toulon and Marseilles, France, surrender to the Allies." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung arrives in Chunking to confer with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in a futile effort to avert civil war." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "One of the largest demonstrations in the history of the United States, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, takes place and reaches its climax at the base of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his \"I have a dream\" speech." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "The Viet Cong are routed in the Mekong Delta by U.S. forces, with more than 50 killed." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1968", "text": "Clash between police and anti-war demonstrators during Democratic Party’s National Convention in Chicago." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb explodes under bandstand in Brussels’ Great Market as British Army musicians prepare for a performance; four British soldiers wounded." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to assassinate Pres. Ronald Reagan." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1982", "text": "First Gay Games held, in San Francisco." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1983", "text": "Israeli’s prime minister Menachem Begin announces his resignation." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "Bolivian president Victor Paz Estenssoro declares a state of siege and uses troops and tanks to halt a march by 10,000 striking tin miners." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth given 365-year prison term for spying for USSR." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"1993", "text": "Two hundred twenty-three die when a dam breaks at Qinghai (Kokonor), in northwest China." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "Power blackout affects half-million people in southeast England and halts 60% of London’s underground trains." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"2005", "text": "Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 5 strength; Louisiana Superdome opened as a \"refuge of last resort\" in New Orleans." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "US Republican convention nominates Mitt Romney as the party’s presidential candidate." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/29.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"70", "text": "The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1526", "text": "Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushes a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1533", "text": "In Peru, the Inca chief Atahualpa is executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although the chief had already paid his ransom." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1776", "text": "General George Washington retreats during the night from Long Island to New York City." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1793", "text": "Slavery is abolished in Santo Domingo." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "Union General John Pope’s army is defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second Battle of Bull Run." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1882", "text": "Australia defeats England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary appears in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The American Red Cross announces that Japan has refused to allow safe conduct for the passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "U.S. airborne troops are landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo, beginning the occupation of Japan." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1949", "text": "USSR explodes its first atomic bomb, \"First Lightning.\"" },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "International Olympic Committee votes to allow West Germany and Japan to compete in 1952 games." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1952", "text": "In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bomb Pyongyang, North Korea." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1957", "text": "US Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 after Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24-hour filibuster, the longest in Senate history, against the bill." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1960", "text": "US U-2 spy plane spots SAM (surface-to-air) missile launch pads in Cuba." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth’s career strikeout record (1,330)." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles \"Pete\" Conrad Jr complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5, marking the first time the US set an international duration record for a manned space mission." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1966", "text": "The Beatles give their last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco)." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1968", "text": "Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president at their Chicago convention." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "Lou Brock (St Louis Cardinals) breaks Ty Cobb’s 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "Morocco’s King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi, strengthening political and economic ties and creating a mutual defense pact." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "USSR’s parliament suspends Communist Party activities in the wake of a failed coup." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1992", "text": "Thousands of Germans demonstrate against a wave of racist attacks aimed at immigrants." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"1995", "text": "NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"2003", "text": "A terrorist bomb kills Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, and nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf where the ayatollah had called for Iraqi unity." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"2005", "text": "Rains from Hurricane Katrina cause a levee breech at the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, causing severe flooding." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "The Egyptian Army’s Operation Eagle results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/3.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1347", "text": "Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1492", "text": "Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1546", "text": "French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1553", "text": "Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1610", "text": "Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1692", "text": "French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerke in the Netherlands." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1805", "text": "Mohammed Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1807", "text": "The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1882", "text": "Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1908", "text": "Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1911", "text": "Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Germany declares war on France." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1916", "text": "Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1958", "text": "The first nuclear submarine USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1967", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "Louisiana Superdome dedicated." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1977", "text": "Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the \"1977 Trinity.\" Its price and Radio Shack’s established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "US commits naval forces to Persian Gulf region in wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"8", "year":"2004", "text": "Statue of Liberty’s pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1617", "text": "Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1721", "text": "The Peace of Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1781", "text": "The French fleet arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1813", "text": "Creek Indians massacre over 500 whites at Fort Mims Alabama." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1860", "text": "The first British tramway is inaugurated at Birkenhead by an American, George Francis Train." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1861", "text": "Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln overrules the general." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1892", "text": "The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brings cholera to the United States." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1932", "text": "Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1961", "text": "President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1967", "text": "US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1976", "text": "Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1982", "text": "Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1983", "text": "Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "KGB arrest journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"8", "year":"1983", "text": "Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/31.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1303", "text": "The War of Vespers in Sicily ends with an agreement between Charles of Valois, who invaded the country, and Frederick, the ruler of Sicily." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1756", "text": "The British at Fort William Henry, New York, surrender to Louis Montcalm of France." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1802", "text": "Captain Merriwether Lewis leaves Pittsburgh to meet up with Captain William Clark and begin their trek to the Pacific Ocean." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "At the Democratic convention in Chicago, General George B. McClellan is nominated for president." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1919", "text": "The Communist Labor Party is founded in Chicago, with the motto, \"Workers of the world unite!\"" },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1928", "text": "Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera opens in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1940", "text": "Joseph Avenol steps down as Secretary-General of the League of Nations." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Battle of Alam Halfa in Egypt." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "The British Eighth Army penetrates the German Gothic Line in Italy." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1949", "text": "Six of the 16 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War attend the last-ever encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Indianapolis, Indiana." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1951", "text": "The 1st Marine Division begins its attack on Bloody Ridge in Korea. The four-day battle results in 2,700 Marine casualties." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1961", "text": "A concrete wall replaces the barbed wire fence that separates East and West Germany, it will be called the Berlin wall." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "US Congress creates Department of Housing & Urban Development." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1968", "text": "The Dasht-e Bayaz 7.3 earthquake in NE Iran completely destroys five villages and severely damages six others." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1970", "text": "Lonnie McLucas convicted of torturing and murdering fellow Black Panther Party member Alex Rackley in the first of the New Haven Black Panther Trials." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1980", "text": "Polish government forced to sign Gdansk Agreement allowing creation of the trade union Solidarity." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1985", "text": "Police capture Richard Ramirez, dubbed the \"Night Stalker\" for a string of gruesome murders that stretched from Mission Viejo to San Francisco, Cal." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1986", "text": "A Russian cargo ship collides with cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov, killing 398." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "Longest mine strike in South Africa’s history ends, after 11 people were killed, 500 injured and 400 arrested." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "East and West Germany sign the Treaty of Unification (Einigungsvertrag) to join their legal and political systems." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become first father and son to play on same team simultaneously in professional baseball (Seattle Mariners)." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "Last Russian troops leave Estonia and Latvia." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1994", "text": "The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces a \"complete cessation of military operations,\" opening the way to a political settlement in Ireland for the first time in a quarter of a century." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1997", "text": "Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a Paris car crash along with her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul while fleeing paparazzi." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"1997", "text": "New York Yankees retire Don Mattingly’s #23 (first baseman, coach, manager)." },
+         { "day":"31", "month":"8", "year":"2006", "text": "Edvard Munch’s famed painting The Scream recovered by Norwegian police. The artwork had been stolen on Aug. 22, 2004." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/8/4.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1265", "text": "King Henry III puts down a revolt of English barons lead by Simon de Montfort." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1578", "text": "A crusade against the Moors of Morocco is routed at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian of Portugal and 8,000 of his soldiers are killed." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1717", "text": "A friendship treaty is signed between France and Russia." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1789", "text": "The Constituent Assembly in France abolishes the privileges of nobility." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1790", "text": "The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, is organized." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Federal troops fail to capture Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, one of the Confederate forts defending Mobile Bay." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1875", "text": "The first Convention of Colored Newspapermen is held in Cincinnati, Ohio." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1879", "text": "A law is passed in Germany making Alsace Lorraine a territory of the empire." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Germany invades Belgium causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The British government charges that Mohandas Gandhi and his All-Indian Congress Party favor \"appeasement\" with Japan." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "RAF pilot T. D. Dean becomes the first pilot to destroy a V-1 buzz bomb when he tips the pilotless craft’s wing, sending it off course." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1952", "text": "Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft (Apollo 15)." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "Arthur Bremer sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace, later reduced to 53 years." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "NASA launches Phoenix spacecraft on a mission to Mars." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1391", "text": "Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1763", "text": "Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac’s rebellion." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1762", "text": "Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1815", "text": "A peace treaty with Tripoli–which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis–brings an end to the Barbary Wars." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1858", "text": "The first transatlantic cable is completed." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1861", "text": "Congress adopts the nation’s first income tax to finance the Civil War." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1892", "text": "Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1915", "text": "The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1916", "text": "The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1921", "text": "Mustapha Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1951", "text": "The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1962", "text": "Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1974", "text": "President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1992", "text": "Four police officers indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1995", "text": "Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during Operation Storm." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"1997", "text": "Mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1497", "text": "John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1888", "text": "Martha Turner is murdered by an unknown assailant, believed to be Jack the Ripper, in London, England." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1890", "text": "William Kemmler becomes the first man to be executed by the electric chair." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1904", "text": "The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1914", "text": "Ellen Louise Wilson, the first wife of the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, dies of Barite’s disease." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1927", "text": "A Massachusetts high court hears the final plea from Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italians convicted of murder." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1962", "text": "Jamaica becomes independent, after 300 years of British rule." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1972", "text": "Atlanta Braves’ right fielder Hank Arron hits his 660th and 661st home runs, setting the Major League record for most home runs by a player for a single franchise." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1973", "text": "Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is in an automobile accident and goes into a four-day coma." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Twelve-year-old Marcus Hooper becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "Argentina’s ex-resident Isabel Peron freed from house arrest." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "A melee that became known as the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City leads to NYPD reforms." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1991", "text": "Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first-ever website, Info.cern.ch." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1993", "text": "Pope John Paul II publishes \"Veritatis splendor encyclical,\" regarding fundamentals of the Catholic Church’s role in moral teachings." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"1997", "text": "Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in troubled rival Apple Computer, Inc." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"8", "year":"2012", "text": "New Zealand’s Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time since 1897." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1782", "text": "General George Washington authorizes the award of the Purple Heart for soldiers wounded in combat." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1864", "text": "Union troops capture part of Confederate General Jubal Early’s army at Moorefield, West Virginia." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1888", "text": "Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for the revolving door." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1906", "text": "In North Carolina, a mob defies a court order and lynches three African Americans which becomes known as \"The Lyerly Murders.\"" },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1916", "text": "Persia forms an alliance with Britain and Russia." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1922", "text": "The Irish Republican Army cuts the cable link between the United States and Europe at Waterville landing station." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1934", "text": "In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the govenment can neither confiscate nor ban James Joyce’s novel Ulysses." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1936", "text": "The United States declares non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "The U.S. 1st Marine Division under General A. A. Vandegrift lands on the islands of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon islands. This is the first American amphibious landing of the war." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "German forces launch a major counter attack against U.S. forces near Mortain, France." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1964", "text": "Congress overwhelmingly passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the president to use unlimited military force to prevent attacks on U.S. forces." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1966", "text": "The United States loses seven planes over North Vietnam, the most in the war up to this point." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "Apollo 15 returns to Earth. The mission to the moon had marked the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1973", "text": "A U.S. plane accidentally bombs a Cambodian village, killing 400 civilians." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1976", "text": "US Viking 2 spacecraft goes into orbit around Mars." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1981", "text": "The Washington (D.C.) Star ceases publication after 128 years." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1984", "text": "Japan defeats the United States to win the Olympic Gold in baseball." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1987", "text": "Presidents of five Central American nations sign a peace accord in Guatemala." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Operation Desert Shield begins as US troops deploy to Saudi Arabia to discourage Iraq’s Saddam Hussein from invading that country as he had Kuwait." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks Hank Aaron’s record with his 756th home run. Bonds’ accomplishments were clouded by allegations of illegal steroid use and lying to a grand jury." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1306", "text": "King Wenceslas of Poland is murdered." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1570", "text": "Charles IX of France signs the Treaty of St. Germain, ending the third war of religion and giving religious freedom to the Huguenots." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1636", "text": "The invading armies of Spain, Austria and Bavaria are stopped at the village of St.-Jean-de-Losne, only 50 miles from France." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1648", "text": "Ibrahim, the sultan of Istanbul, is thrown into prison, then assassinated." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1786", "text": "Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michael-Gabriel Baccard become the first men to climb Mont Blanc in France." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1844", "text": "Brigham Young is chosen to head the Mormon Church, succeeding Joseph Smith." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate President Jefferson Davis refuses General Robert E. Lee’s resignation." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1876", "text": "Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1899", "text": "The first household refrigerating machine is patented." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1925", "text": "The first national congress of the Ku Klux Klan opens." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1937", "text": "The Japanese Army occupies Beijing." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1940", "text": "The German Luftwaffe attacks Great Britain for the first time, begining the Battle of Britain." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1942", "text": "U.S. Marines capture the Japanese airstrip on Guadalcanal." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. forces complete the capture of the Marianas Islands." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "The Soviet Union declares war on Japan." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1950", "text": "U.S. troops repel the first North Korean attempt to overrun them at the battle of Naktong Bulge, which continued for 10 days." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1963", "text": "England’s \"Great Train Robbery;\" 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million) is stolen" },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1974", "text": "President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1978", "text": "Pioneer-Venus 2 launched to probe the atmosphere of Venus." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1983", "text": "Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt is deposed as president of Guatemala in the country’s second military coup in 17 months." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1988", "text": "Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease-fire treaty in the border war that began in 1966." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1989", "text": "NASA Space Shuttle Columbia begins its eighth flight, NASA’s 30th shuttle mission." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"1990", "text": "Iraq annexes the state of Kuwait as its 19th province, six days after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"2000", "text": "Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley raised to surface, 136 years after it sank following its successful attack on USS Housatonic in the outer harbor of Charleston, South Carolina." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"2007", "text": "An EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn, New York, the first in that borough since 1889." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"8", "year":"2008", "text": "Georgia invades South Ossetia, touching off a five-day war between Georgia and Russia." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"480 BC", "text": "The Persian army defeats Leonidas and his Spartan army at the battle Thermopylae, Persia." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"48 BC", "text": "Julius Caesar defeats Gnaius Pompey at Pharsalus." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1483", "text": "Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, which is named in his honor." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1549", "text": "England declares war on France." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1645", "text": "Settlers in New Amsterdam gain peace with the Indians after conducting talks with the Mohawks." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1805", "text": "Austria joins Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the third coalition against France." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1814", "text": "Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving the whites 23 million acres of Creek territory." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1842", "text": "The Webster-Ashburn treaty fixes the border between Maine and Canada’s New Brunswick." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1859", "text": "The escalator is patented. However, the first working escalator appeared in 1900. Manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company for the Paris Exposition, it was installed in a Philadelphia office building the following year." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1862", "text": "At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General \"Stonewall\" Jackson repels an attack by Union forces." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1910", "text": "The first complete, self-contained electric washing machine is patented." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1930", "text": "First appearance of the animated character Betty Boop (\"Dizzy Dishes\")." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1936", "text": "Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in track and field events at the Berlin Olympics." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1941", "text": "President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The meeting produces the Atlantic Charter, an agreement between the two countries on war aims, even though the United States is still a neutral country." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1944", "text": "Fictional character Smokey Bear (\"Only you can prevent forest fires\") created by US Forest Service and the Ad Council." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1945", "text": "The B-29 bomber Bock’s Car drops a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1965", "text": "Singapore expelled from Malaysia following economic disagreements and racial tensions; becomes independent republic." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1969", "text": "Charles Manson’s followers kill actress Sharon Tate and her three guests in her Beverly Hills home." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1971", "text": "Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1974", "text": "Gerald Ford is sworn in as president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1975", "text": "First NFL game in Louisiana Superdome; Houston Oilers defeat New Orleans Saints 13-7." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1979", "text": "England’s first major nude beach established, at the seaside resort of Brighton." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1992", "text": "Twenty-fifth Olympic Summer Games closes in Barcelona, Spain." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1999", "text": "Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister and, for the fourth time, fires the entire cabinet." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"8", "year":"1999", "text": "The Diet of Japan establishes the country’s official national flag, the Hinomaru, and national anthem, \"Kimi Ga Yo.\"." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1676", "text": "Nathaniel Bacon leads an uprising against English Governor William Berkeley at Jamestown, Virginia, resulting in the settlement being burned to the ground. Bacon’s Rebellion came in response to the governor’s repeated refusal to defend the colonists against the Indians." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1773", "text": "Phillis Wheatley, a slave from Boston, publishes a collection of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in London." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1807", "text": "Aaron Burr is arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to establish a Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1821", "text": "William Becknell leads a group of traders from Independence, Mo., toward Santa Fe on what would become the Santa Fe Trail." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1836", "text": "Protestant missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman leads a party to Oregon. His wife, Narcissa, is one of the first white women to travel the Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail emigrants who chose to follow Stephen Meek thought his shortcut would save weeks of hard travel. Instead, it brought them even greater misery." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate forces under General John Bell Hood evacuate Atlanta in anticipation of the arrival of Union General William T. Sherman’s troops." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1870", "text": "The Prussian army crushes the French at Sedan, the last battle of the Franco-Prussian War." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1876", "text": "The Ottomans inflict a decisive defeat on the Serbs at Aleksinac." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1882", "text": "The first Labor Day is observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1894", "text": "By an act of Congress, Labor Day is declared a national holiday." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1902", "text": "The Austro-Hungarian army is called into the city of Agram to restore the peace as Serbs and Croats clash." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1904", "text": "Helen Keller graduates with honors from Radcliffe College." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1905", "text": "Alberta and Saskatchewan become Canadian provinces." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1916", "text": "Bulgaria declares war on Rumania as the First World War expands." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1923", "text": "An earthquake levels the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, killing 300,000." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1939", "text": "Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1942", "text": "A federal judge in Sacramento, Cal., upholds the government’s detention of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals as a war measure." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1951", "text": "Australia, New Zealand and the United States sign the ANZUS Treaty, a mutual defense pact." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1969", "text": "Colonel Muammar Gadhafi seizes power in Libya following a coup." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1970", "text": "Dr. Hugh Scott of Washington, D.C. becomes the first African-American superintendent of schools in a major U.S. city." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1972", "text": "America’s Bobby Fischer beats Russia’s Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, to become world chess champion." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1979", "text": "US spacecraft Pioneer 11 makes the first-ever flyby of Saturn." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1985", "text": "The wreck of the Titanic found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"1998", "text": "On National Day, Vietnam releases 5,000 prisoners, including political dissidents." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"9", "year":"2004", "text": "Armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in the Besian school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1419", "text": "John the Fearless is murdered at Montereau, France, by supporters of the dauphine." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1547", "text": "The Duke of Somerset leads the English to a resounding victory over the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1588", "text": "Thomas Cavendish returns to England, becoming the third man to circumnavigate the globe." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1623", "text": "Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1813", "text": "The nine-ship American flotilla under Oliver Hazard Perry wrests naval supremacy from the British on Lake Erie by capturing or destroying a force of six English vessels." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1846", "text": "Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in the United States." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1855", "text": "Sevastopol, under siege for nearly a year, capitulates to the Allies during the Crimean War." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1861", "text": "Confederates at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fall back after being attacked by Union troops. The action is instrumental in helping preserve western Virginia for the Union." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1912", "text": "J. Vedrines becomes the first pilot to break the 100 m.p.h. barrier." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1914", "text": "The six-day Battle of the Marne ends, halting the German advance into France." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1923", "text": "In response to a dispute with Yugoslavia, Mussolini mobilizes Italian troops on Serb front." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1961", "text": "Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected president of the Kenya National African Union." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1963", "text": "President John F. Kennedy federalizes Alabama’s National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1967", "text": "Gibraltar votes to remain a British dependency instead of becoming part of Spain." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1974", "text": "Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea) gains independence from Portugal." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"1981", "text": "Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica is returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso stated in his will that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was restored." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"2001", "text": "Contestant Charles Ingram cheats on the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, wins 1 million pounds." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"2003", "text": "Sweden’s foreign minister, Anna Lindh, is stabbed while shopping and dies the next day." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"2007", "text": "Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister of Pakistan, returns after 7 years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator—described as the biggest scientific experiment in history—is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1297", "text": "Scots under William Wallace defeat the English at Stirling Bridge." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1695", "text": "Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks at the Battle of Zenta." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1709", "text": "John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, wins the bloodiest battle of the 18th century at great cost, against the French at Malplaquet." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1740", "text": "The first mention of an African American doctor or dentist in the colonies is made in the Pennsylvania Gazette." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1777", "text": "General George Washington and his troops are defeated by the British under General Sir William Howe at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1786", "text": "The Convention of Annapolis opens with the aim of revising the articles of confederation." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1802", "text": "Piedmont, Italy, is annexed by France." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1814", "text": "U.S. forces led by Thomas Macdonough route the British fleet on Lake Champlain." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1847", "text": "Stephen Foster’s \"Oh! Susanna\" is first performed in a saloon in Pittsburgh." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1850", "text": "Soprano opera singer Jenny Lind, the \"Swedish Nightingale,\" makes her American debut at New York’s Castle Garden Theater." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1864", "text": "A 10-day truce is declared between generals Sherman and Hood so civilians may leave Atlanta, Georgia." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1857", "text": "Indians incited by Mormon John D. Lee kill 120 California-bound settlers in the Mountain Meadows Massacre." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1904", "text": "The battleship Connecticut, launched in New York, introduces a new era in naval construction." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1916", "text": "The \"Star Spangled Banner\" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time in Cooperstown, New York." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1944", "text": "American troops enter Luxembourg." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1962", "text": "Thurgood Marshall is appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1965", "text": "The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrives in South Vietnam and is stationed at An Khe." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"1974", "text": "Haile Selassie I is deposed from the Ethiopian throne." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"2001", "text": "In an unprecedented, highly coordinated attack, terrorists hijack four U.S. passenger airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one into the Pentagon, killing thousands. The fourth airliner, headed toward Washington likely to strike the White House or Capitol, is crashed just over 100 miles away in Pennsylvania after passengers storm the cockpit and overtake the hijackers." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"2005", "text": "Israel completes its unilateral disengagement of all Israeli civilians and military from the Gaza Strip." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"2007", "text": "Russia detonates a nano-bomb; dubbed the \"Father of All Bombs,\" it is the largest non-nuclear weapon developed to date." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"9", "year":"2012", "text": "US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, attacked and burned down; 4 Americans were killed including the US ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens." }      ]
+   }
+]