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data/data/9/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"490 BC", "text": "Athenian and Plataean Hoplites commanded by General Miltiades drive back a Persian invasion force under General Datis at Marathon." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1213", "text": "Simon de Montfort defeats Raymond of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon at Muret, France." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1609", "text": "Henry Hudson sails into what is now New York Harbor aboard his sloop Half Moon." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1662", "text": "Governor Berkley of Virginia is denied his attempts to repeal the Navigation Acts." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1683", "text": "A combined Austrian and Polish army defeats the Turks at Kahlenberg and lifts the siege on Vienna, Austria." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1722", "text": "The Treaty of St. Petersburg puts an end to the Russo-Persian War." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1786", "text": "Despite his failed efforts to suppress the American Revolution, Lord Cornwallis is appointed governor general of India." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1836", "text": "Mexican authorities crush the revolt which broke out on August 25." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1918", "text": "British troops retake Havincourt, Moeuvres, and Trescault along the Western Front." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1919", "text": "Adolf Hitler joins German Worker’s Party." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1939", "text": "In response to the invasion of Poland, the French Army advances into Germany. On this day they reach their furthest penetration-five miles." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1940", "text": "Italian forces begin an offensive into Egypt from Libya." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1940", "text": "The Lascaux Caves in France, with their prehistoric wall paintings, are discovered." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1944", "text": "American troops fight their way into Germany." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "French troops land in Indochina." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1969", "text": "President Richard Nixon orders a resumption in bombing North Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1977", "text": "Steve Biko, a South African activist opposing apartheid, dies while in police custody." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1980", "text": "Military coup in Turkey." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1990", "text": "East and West Germany, along with the UK, US and USSR—the Allied nations that had occupied post-WWII Germany—sign the final settlement for reunification of Germany." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"1992", "text": "Space Shuttle Endeavor takes off on NASA’s 50th shuttle mission; its crew includes the first African-American woman in space, the first married couple, and the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spacecraft." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"2003", "text": "UN lifts sanctions against Libya in exchange for that country accepting responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 and paying recompense to victims’ families." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"2007", "text": "Joseph Estrada, former president of the Philippines, is convicted of plunder." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"9", "year":"2011", "text": "In New York City, the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to the public." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1515", "text": "King Francis of France defeats the Swiss army under Cardinal Matthias Schiner at Marignano, northern Italy." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1549", "text": "Pope Paul III closes the first session of the Council of Bologna." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1564", "text": "On the verge of attacking Pedro Menendez’s Spanish settlement at San Agostin, Florida, Jean Ribault’s French fleet is scattered by a devastating storm." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1759", "text": "British troops defeat the French on the plains of Abraham, in Quebec." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1774", "text": "Tugot, the new controller of finances, urges the king of France to restore the free circulation of grain in the kingdom." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1782", "text": "The British fortress at Gibraltar comes under attack by French and Spanish forces." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1788", "text": "The Constitutional Convention authorizes the first federal election resolving that electors in all the states will be appointed on January 7, 1789." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1789", "text": "Guardsmen in Orleans, France, open fire on rioters trying to loot bakeries, killing 90." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1846", "text": "General Winfield Scott takes Chapultepec, removing the last obstacle to U.S. troops moving on Mexico City." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discover General Robert E. Lee’s attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars. They give the plans to General George B. McClellan who sends the Army of the Potomac to confront Lee but only after a delay of more than half a day." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1863", "text": "The Loudoun County Rangers route a company of Confederate cavalry at Catoctin Mountain in Virginia." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1905", "text": "U.S. warships head to Nicaragua on behalf of American William Albers, who was accused of evading tobacco taxes." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1918", "text": "U.S. and French forces take St. Mihiel, France in America’s first action as a standing army." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "Iran demands the withdrawal of Allied forces." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1951", "text": "In Korea, U.S. Army troops begin their assault in Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long struggle will cost 3,700 casualties." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1961", "text": "An unmanned Mercury capsule is orbited and recovered by NASA in a test." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1976", "text": "The United States announces it will veto Vietnam’s UN bid." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1988", "text": "Hurricane Gilbert becomes the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, based on barometric pressure. Hurricane Wilma will break that record in 2005." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"1993", "text": "The Oslo Accords, granting limited Palestinian autonomy, are signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"2007", "text": "UN adopts non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "Five synchronized bomb blasts occur in crowded locations of Delhi, India, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100; four other bombs are defused." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas; it had already been the most costly storm in Cuba’s history and becomes the third costliest in the US." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1146", "text": "Zangi of the Near East is murdered. The Sultan Nur ad-Din, his son, pursues the conquest of Edessa." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1321", "text": "Dante Alighieri dies of malaria just hours after finishing writing Paradiso." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1544", "text": "Henry VIII’s forces take Boulogne, France." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1773", "text": "Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov successfully storm a Turkish fort at Hirsov, Turkey." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1791", "text": "Louis XVI swears his allegiance to the French constitution." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1812", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia reaches its climax as his Grande Armee enters Moscow–only to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1814", "text": "Francis Scott Key writes the words to the \"Star Spangled Banner\" as he waits aboard a British launch in the Chesapeake Bay for the outcome of the British assault on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1847", "text": "U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott capture Mexico City, virtually bringing the two-year Mexican War to a close." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1853", "text": "The Allies land at Eupatoria on the west coast of Crimea." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "At the battles of South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap, Maryland Union troops smash into the Confederates as they close in on what will become the Antietam battleground." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1901", "text": "Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley, who was shot eight days earlier." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1911", "text": "Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin is mortally wounded in an assassination attempt at the Kiev opera house." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1943", "text": "German troops abandon the Salerno front in Italy.." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1960", "text": "Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1966", "text": "Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise for American troops, becomes a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1975", "text": "Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first native-born American saint in the Roman Catholic Church." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1979", "text": "Nur Muhammad Taraki, president and former prime minister of Afghanistan, is assassinated in a coup in which prime minister Hafizullah Amin seizes power." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1982", "text": "Bachir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, is killed along with 26 others in a bomb blast in Beirut." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1984", "text": "Joe Kittinger, a former USAF fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, becomes the first person to pilot a gas balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"1994", "text": "Major League Baseball players strike over a salary cap and other proposed changes, forcing the cancellation of the entire postseason and the World Series." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"9", "year":"2007", "text": "Northern Rock Bank suffers the UK’s first bank run in 150 years." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/15.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1588", "text": "The Spanish Armada, which attempted to invade England, is destroyed by a British fleet." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1776", "text": "The British occupy Manhattan." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1788", "text": "An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands is ratified at the Hague." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1858", "text": "The Butterfield Overland Mail Company begins delivering mail from St. Louis to San Francisco. The company’s motto is: "Remember, boys, nothing on God’s earth must stop the United States mail!"" },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, securing the rear of Robert E. Lee’s forces in Maryland." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1891", "text": "The Dalton gang holds up a train and takes $2,500 at Wagoner, Oklahoma." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1914", "text": "President Woodrow Wilson orders the Punitive Expedition out of Mexico. The Expedition, headed by General John Pershing, had been searching for Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1916", "text": "Armored tanks are introduced by the British during the Battle of the Somme." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1928", "text": "Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers, by accident, that the mold penicillin has an antibiotic effect." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1935", "text": "In Berlin, the Reich under Adolf Hitler adopts the swastika as the national flag." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1937", "text": "Prime Minister of England Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia with Adolf Hitler." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1939", "text": "The Polish submarine Orzel arrives in Tallinn, Estonia, after escaping the German invasion of Poland." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1950", "text": "U.N. Forces, lead by the U.S. Marine Corps, invade occupied Korea at the port of Inchon. Considered the greatest amphibious attack in history, it is the zenith of General Douglas MacArthur’s career." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1959", "text": "Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Soviet leader to visit the US." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1961", "text": "Hurricane Carla comes ashore in Texas, the second-most powerful ever to make landfall in that state." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1963", "text": "Four young African-American girls are killed by the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1966", "text": "US President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress to adopt gun control legislation in the wake of Charles Whitman’s sniper attack from the University of Texas’s Texas Tower; in all, Whitman shot and killed 15 people before being shot dead himself by an Austin police officer." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1968", "text": "The USSR launches Zond 5, which becomes the first spaceshipt to orbit the moon and reenter Earth’s atmosphere." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1971", "text": "The environmental group Greenpeace is founded." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1981", "text": "Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee to become the first female justice on the US Supreme Court." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1983", "text": "Menachem Begin resigns as premier of Israel." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1990", "text": "France announces it will send 4,000 troops to join those of other nations assembling in the Persian Gulf to protect Saudi Arabia and force Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein to withdraw troops from occupied Kuwait." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"1998", "text": "MCI WorldCom begins operations after a landmark merger between World Com and MCI Communications." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"2004", "text": "National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "The largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history is filed by Lehman Brothers financial services firm." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/16.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1620", "text": "The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1668", "text": "King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1747", "text": "The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1789", "text": "Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L’Ami du Peuple." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1810", "text": "A revolution for independence breaks out in Mexico." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1889", "text": "Robert Younger, in Minnesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1893", "text": "Some 50,000 \"Sooners\" claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1908", "text": "General Motors files papers of incorporation." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1920", "text": "Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York’s Wall Street financial district." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1934", "text": "Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1940", "text": "Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1942", "text": "The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "Japan surrenders Hong Kong to Britain." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1950", "text": "The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur’s troops heading south from Inchon." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1972", "text": "South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1974", "text": "Limited amnesty is offered to Vietnam-era draft resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and perform two years of public service." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1975", "text": "Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1978", "text": "An earthquake estimated to be as strong as 7.9 on the Richter scale kills 25,000 people in Iran." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1991", "text": "The trial of Manuel Noriega, deposed dictator of Panama, begins in the United States." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"1994", "text": "Britain’s government lifts the 1988 broadcasting ban against member of Ireland’s Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"9", "year":"2007", "text": "Military contractors in the employ of Blackwater Worldwide allegedly kill 17 Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, further straining relations between the US and the people of Iraq." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/17.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1787", "text": "The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approves the constitution for the United States of America." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1796", "text": "President George Washington delivers his “Farewell Address” to Congress before concluding his second term in office." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "The Battle of Antietam in Maryland, the bloodiest day in U.S. history, commences. Fighting in the corn field, Bloody Lane and Burnside’s Bridge rages all day as the Union and Confederate armies suffer a combined 26,293 casualties." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1868", "text": "The Battle of Beecher’s Island begins, in which Major George “Sandy” Forsyth and 50 volunteers hold off 500 Sioux and Cheyenne in eastern Colorado." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1902", "text": "U.S. troops are sent to Panama to keep train lines open over the isthmus as Panamanian nationals struggle for independence from Colombia." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1903", "text": "Turks destroy the town of Kastoria in Bulgaria, killing 10,000 civilians." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1916", "text": "Germany’s “Red Baron,” Manfred von Richthofen, wins his first aerial combat." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1917", "text": "The German Army recaptures the Russian Port of Riga from Russian forces." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1939", "text": "With the German army already attacking western Poland, the Soviet Union launches an invasion of eastern Poland." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1942", "text": "British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin in Moscow as the German Army rams into Stalingrad." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1944", "text": "British airborne troops parachute into Holland to capture the Arnhem bridge as part of Operation Market-Garden. The plan called for the airborne troops to be relieved by British troops, but they were left stranded and eventually surrendered to the Germans." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1947", "text": "James Forestall is sworn in as first the U.S. Secretary of Defense." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1957", "text": "The Thai army seizes power in Bangkok." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1959", "text": "The X-15 rocket plane makes its first flight." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1962", "text": "The first federal suit to end public school segregation is filed by the U.S. Justice Department." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1976", "text": "The Space Shuttle is unveiled to the public." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1978", "text": "Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accords." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1980", "text": "Nationwide independent trade union Solidarity established in Poland." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"1983", "text": "Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America; relinquished crown early after scandal over nude photos." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"2001", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange reopens for the first time since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers; longest period of closure since the Great Depression of the 1930s." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"2006", "text": "Alaska’s Fourpeaked Mountain erupts for the first time in at least 10,000 years." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"9", "year":"2011", "text": "Occupy Wall Street movement calling for greater social and economic equality begins in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, coining the phrase “We are the 99%.”" },
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/18.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1758", "text": "James Abercromby is replaced as supreme commander of British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis of Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1759", "text": "Quebec surrenders to the British after a battle which sees the deaths of both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French commanders." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1793", "text": "George Washington lays the foundation stone for the U.S. Capitol." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1830", "text": "Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1850", "text": "Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1863", "text": "Union cavalry troops clash with a group of Confederates at Chickamauga Creek." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1874", "text": "The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1911", "text": "Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1914", "text": "The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1929", "text": "Charles Lindbergh takes off on a 10,000 mile air tour of South America." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1934", "text": "The League of Nations admits the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1939", "text": "A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous, killing 500 people." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1948", "text": "Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the Senate without completing another senator’s term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. Smith is also the only woman to be elected to and serve in both houses of Congress." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1960", "text": "Two thousand cheer Castro’s arrival in New York for the United Nations session." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1961", "text": "UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Congo." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1964", "text": "U.S. destroyers fire on hostile targets in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1973", "text": "East and West Germany and The Bahamas are admitted to United Nations." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1975", "text": "Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by violent radical group SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army); she later took part in some of the group’s militant activities, is captured by FBI agents." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1977", "text": "Voyager I takes first photo of Earth and the Moon together." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1980", "text": "Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first black to be sent on a mission in space." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"1998", "text": "ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is formed to coordinate unique identifying addresses for Websites worldwide." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"9", "year":"2009", "text": "The US television soap opera The Guiding Light broadcasts its final episode, ending a 72-year run that began on radio." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1356", "text": "In a landmark battle of the Hundred Years’ War, English Prince Edward defeats the French at Poitiers." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1544", "text": "Francis, the king of France, and Charles V of Austria sign a peace treaty in Crespy, France, ending a 20-year war." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1692", "text": "Giles Corey is pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of witchcraft brought against him. He is the only person in America to have suffered this punishment." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1777", "text": "American forces under Gen. Horatio Gates meet British troops led by Gen. John Burgoyne at Saratoga Springs, NY." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1783", "text": "The first hot-air balloon is sent aloft in Versailles, France with animal passengers including a sheep, rooster and a duck." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1788", "text": "Charles de Barentin becomes lord chancellor of France." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1841", "text": "The first railway to span a frontier is completed between Stousbourg and Basle, in Europe." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1863", "text": "In Georgia, the two-day Battle of Chickamauga begins as Union troops under George Thomas clash with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1893", "text": "New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1900", "text": "President Loubet of France pardons Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus, twice court-martialed and wrongly convicted of spying for Germany." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1918", "text": "American troops of the Allied North Russia Expeditionary Force receive their baptism of fire near the town of Seltso against Soviet forces." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1948", "text": "Moscow announces it will withdrawal soldiers from Korea by the end of the year." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1955", "text": "Argentina’s President Juan Peron is overthrown by rebels." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1957", "text": "First underground nuclear test is takes place in Nevada." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1970", "text": "First Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Artis (originally called the Pilton Festival) held near Pliton, Somerset, England." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1973", "text": "Carl XVI Gustaf invested as King of Sweden, following the death of his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1982", "text": "The first documented emoticons, :-) and :-(, posted on Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System by Scott Fahlman." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1985", "text": "An earthquake kills thousands in Mexico City." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1985", "text": "Parents Music Resource Center formed by Tipper Gore (wife of then-Senator Al Gore) and other political wives to lobby for Parental Advisory stickers on music packaging." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"1991", "text": "German hikers near the Austria-Italy border discover the naturally preserved mummy of a man from about 3,300 BC; Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, he is dubbed Otzi the Iceman because his lower half was encased in ice." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"9", "year":"2006", "text": "Military coup in Bangkok,  revokes Thailand’s constitution and establishes martial law." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1666", "text": "The Great Fire of London, which devastates the city, begins." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1789", "text": "The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, is created in New York City." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1792", "text": "Verdun, France, surrenders to the Prussian Army." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1798", "text": "The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valetta in Malta." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1870", "text": "Napoleon III capitulates to the Prussians at Sedan, France." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1885", "text": "In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1898", "text": "Sir Herbert Kitchner leads the British to victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman and takes Khartoum." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1910", "text": "Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1915", "text": "Austro-German armies take Grodno, Poland." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1944", "text": "Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "Japan signs the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II" },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "Vietnam declares its independence and Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims himself its first president." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1956", "text": "Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1963", "text": "Alabama Governor George Wallace calls state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1963", "text": "The US gets its first half-hour TV weeknight national news broadcast when CBS Evening News expands from 15 to 30 minutes." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1970", "text": "NASA cancels two planned missions to the moon." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1975", "text": "Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, becomes the state’s first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1992", "text": "The US and Russia agree to a joint venture to build a space station." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1996", "text": "The Philippine government and Muslim rebels sign a pact, formally ending a 26-year long insurgency." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"9", "year":"1998", "text": "Jean Paul Akayesu, former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"480 BC", "text": "Themistocles and his Greek fleet win one of history’s first decisive naval victories over Xerxes’ Persian force off Salamis." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1378", "text": "The election of Robert of Geneva as anti-pope by discontented cardinals creates a great schism in the Catholic church." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1519", "text": "Ferdinand Magellan embarks from Spain on a voyage to circumnavigate the world." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1561", "text": "Queen Elizabeth of England signs a treaty at Hamptan Court with French Huguenot leader Louis de Bourbon, the Prince of Conde. The English will occupy Le Harve in return for aiding Bourbon against the Catholics of France." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1565", "text": "Pedro Menendez of Spain wipes out the French at Fort Caroline, in Florida." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1604", "text": "After a two-year siege, the Spanish retake Ostend, the Netherlands, from the Dutch." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1784", "text": "Packet and Daily, the first daily publication in America, appears on the streets." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1806", "text": "Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark pass the French village of La Charette, the first white settlement they have seen in more than two years." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1830", "text": "The National Negro Convention convenes in Philadelphia with the purpose of abolishing slavery." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1850", "text": "The slave trade is abolished in the District of Columbia." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1853", "text": "The Allies defeat the Russians at the battle of Alma on the Crimean Peninsula." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1863", "text": "Union troops under George Thomas prevent the Union defeat at Chickamauga from becoming a rout, earning him the nickname \"the Rock of Chickamauga.\"" },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1934", "text": "Bruno Hauptmann arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1952", "text": "Scientists confirm that DNA holds hereditary data." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1971", "text": "Hurricane Irene becomes the first hurricane known to cross from the Atlantic to Pacific, where it is renamed Hurricane Olivia." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1973", "text": "In a pro tennis bout dubbed \"The Battle of the Sexes,\" Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in Texas." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1977", "text": "Socialist Republic of Vietnam admitted to the United Nations." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1984", "text": "Suicide car bomber attacks US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 22." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1985", "text": "Australia introduces a capital gains tax." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"1990", "text": "South Ossetia declares its independence from George in the former Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"2000", "text": "British MI6 Secret intelligence Service building in London attacked by unidentified group using RPG-22 anti-tank missile." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"2001", "text": "US Pres. George W. Bush, addressing a joint session of Congress, declares a \"war on terror\"." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "A truck loaded with explosives detonates by Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 45 and injuring 226." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"9", "year":"2011", "text": "US military ends its \"Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell\" policy and allows gay men and women to serve openly." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/21.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"454", "text": "In Italy, Aetius, the supreme army commander, is murdered in Ravenna by Valentinian III, the emperor of the West." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1327", "text": "Edward II of England is murdered by order of his wife." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1520", "text": "Suleiman (the Magnificent), son of Selim, becomes Ottoman sultan in Constantinople." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1589", "text": "The Duke of Mayenne of France is defeated by Henry IV at the Battle of Arques." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1673", "text": "James Needham returns to Virginia after exploring the land to the west, which would become Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1745", "text": "A Scottish Jacobite army commanded by Lord George Murray routs the Royalist army of General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1863", "text": "Union troops defeated at Chickamauga seek refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is then besieged by Confederate troops." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1904", "text": "Exiled Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph dies of a \"broken heart\"." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1915", "text": "Stonehenge is sold by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling ($11,500) to a Mr. Chubb, who buys it as a present for his wife. He presents it to the British nation three years later." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1929", "text": "Fighting between China and the Soviet Union breaks out along the Manchurian border." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1936", "text": "The German army holds its largest maneuvers since 1914." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1937", "text": "The women’s airspeed record is set at 292 mph by American pilot Jacqueline Cochran." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1937", "text": "J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit is published." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1941", "text": "The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1942", "text": "British forces attack the Japanese in Burma." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. troops of the 7th Army, invading Southern France, cross the Meuse River." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1978", "text": "Two Soviet cosmonauts set a space endurance record after 96 days in space." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1981", "text": "Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1989", "text": "General Colin Powell is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1991", "text": "Armenia granted independence from USSR." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1993", "text": "The Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 begins when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and invalidates the existing constitution." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"1999", "text": "Earthquake in Taiwan kills more than 2,400, injures over 11,305, and causes $300 billion New Taiwan dollars ($10 billion in US dollars)." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"9", "year":"2003", "text": "Galileo space mission ends as the probe is sent into Jupiter’s atmosphere where it is crushed." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1656", "text": "The General Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impanels the first all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith Catchpole, who is accused of murdering her child. The jury acquits her after hearing her defense of never having been pregnant." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1711", "text": "The Tuscarora Indian War begins with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1776", "text": "American Captain Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British in New York City; his last words are reputed to have been, \"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.\"" },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1789", "text": "Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov drive the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha from the Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "President Lincoln issues a proclamation calling for all slaves within the rebel states to be freed on January 1, a political move that helps keep the British from intervening on the side of the South." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1864", "text": "Union General Philip Sheridan defeats Confederate General Jubal Early’s troops at the Battle of Fisher’s Hill in Virginia." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1869", "text": "The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrive in San Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1893", "text": "Bicycle makers Charles and Frank Duryea show off the first American automobile produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1906", "text": "Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia leave 21 people dead." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1914", "text": "The German cruiser Emden shells Madras, India, destroying 346,000 gallons of fuel and killing only five civilians." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1915", "text": "Xavier University, the first African-American Catholic college, opens in New Orleans, Louisiana." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1918", "text": "General Allenby leads the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa and Nazareth, Palestine." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1919", "text": "President Woodrow Wilson abandons his national tour to support the League of Nations when he suffers a case of nervous exhaustion." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1929", "text": "Communist and Nazi factions clash in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "President Truman accepts U.S. Secretary of War Stimson’s recommendation to designate the war World War II." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1947", "text": "A Douglas C-54 Skymaster makes the first automatic pilot flight over the Atlantic." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1961", "text": "President John Kennedy signs a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1969", "text": "Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1970", "text": "President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1975", "text": "Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, the second attempt on his life in less than three weeks." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1980", "text": "The Iran-Iraq War begins as Iraq invades Iran; lasting until August 1988, it was the longest conventional war of the 20th century." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"9", "year":"1991", "text": "Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1553", "text": "The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1561", "text": "Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1577", "text": "William of Orange makes his triumphant entry into Brussels, Belgium." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1667", "text": "Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1739", "text": "The Austrians sign the Treaty of Belgrade after having lost the city to the Turks." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1779", "text": "The American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding from Bonhomme Richard, defeats and captures the British man-of-war Serapis." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1788", "text": "Louis XVI of France declares the Parliament restored." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1795", "text": "A national plebiscite approves the new French constitution, but so many voters sustain that the results are suspect." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1803", "text": "British Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats the Marathas at Assaye, India." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1805", "text": "Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1806", "text": "The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate and Union forces clash at Mount Jackson, Front Royal and Woodstock in Virginia during the Valley campaign." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1911", "text": "The Second International Aviation Meet opens in New York." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1912", "text": "Mack Sennet’s first \"Keystone Cop\" film debuts, Cohen Collects a Debt." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1945", "text": "The first American dies in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1952", "text": "Richard Nixon responds to charges of a secret slush fund during his ‘Checkers Speech.’" },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1954", "text": "East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S. spies." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1967", "text": "Soviets sign a pact to send more aid to Hanoi." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1973", "text": "Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1983", "text": "Gerrie Coetzee (Gerhardus Coetzee), boxer from South Africa; first boxer from the African continent to win a world heavyweight tittle (World Boxing Association)." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1983", "text": "Gulf Air Flight 771 from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, bombed; all 117 aboard die." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"1992", "text": "Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates 3,700-lb. bomb in Belfast, completely destroying the Northern Ireland forensic laboratory, injuring 20 people and damaging 700 houses." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"2002", "text": "The first public version of Mozilla Firefox browser released; originally called Phoenix 0.1 its name was changed due to trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"9", "year":"2004", "text": "Hurricane Jeanne causes severe flooding in Haiti; over 1,000 reported dead." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/9/24.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1788", "text": "After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembles in triumph." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1789", "text": "Congress passes the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing a strong federal court system with the powers it needs to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution and federal law. The new Supreme Court will have a chief justice and five associate justices." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1842", "text": "Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters and the model for Hindley Earnshaw in Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis. Emily and Anne die the same year." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1862", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1904", "text": "Sixty-two die and 120 are injured in head-on train collision in Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1914", "text": "In the Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army captures St. Mihiel." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1915", "text": "Bulgaria mobilizes troops on the Serbian border." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1929", "text": "The first flight using only instruments is completed by U.S. Army pilot James Doolittle." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1930", "text": "Noel Coward’s comedy Private Lives opens in London starring Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1947", "text": "The World Women’s Party meets for the first time since World War II." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1956", "text": "The first transatlantic telephone cable system begins operation." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1957", "text": "President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering its newly integrated high school." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1960", "text": "The Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is launched." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1962", "text": "The University of Mississippi agrees to admit James Meredith as the first black university student, sparking more rioting." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1969", "text": "The \"Chicago Eight,\" charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot, go on trial for their part in the mayhem during the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention in the \"Windy City.\"" },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1970", "text": "The Soviet Luna 16 lands, completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1979", "text": "CompuServe (CIS) offers one of the first online services to consumers; it will dominate among Internet service providers for consumers through the mid-1990s." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1993", "text": "Sihanouk is reinstalled as king of Cambodia." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"1996", "text": "Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty signed by representatives of 71 nations at the UN; at present, five key nations have signed but not ratified it and three others have not signed." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"2005", "text": "Hurricane Rita, the 4th-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, comes ashore in Texas causing extensive damage there and in Louisiana, which had devastated by Hurricane Katrina less than a month earlier." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"9", "year":"2009", "text": "LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) \"sonic cannon,\" a non-lethal device that utilizes intense sound, is used in the United States for the first time, to disperse protestors at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Penn." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1396", "text": "The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bajazet I’s Ottoman army at Nicopolis." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1598", "text": "In Sweden, King Sigismund is defeated at Stangebro by his Uncle Charles." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1775", "text": "British troops capture Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, when he and a handful of Americans try to invade Canada." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1789", "text": "Congress proposes 12 new amendments to the Constitution." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1804", "text": "The 12th Amendment is ratified, changing the procedure of choosing the president and vice-president." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1846", "text": "American General Zachary Taylor’s forces capture Monterey, Mexico." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1909", "text": "The first National Aeronautic Show opens at Madison Square Garden." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1915", "text": "An allied offensive is launched in France against the German Army." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1918", "text": "Brazil declares war on Austria." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1937", "text": "German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1938", "text": "President Franklin Roosevelt urges negotiations between Hitler and Czech President Benes over the Sudetenland." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1942", "text": "The War Labor Board orders equal pay for women in the United States." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1943", "text": "The Red Army retakes Smolensk from the Germans who are retreating to the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1959", "text": "President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev begin Camp David talks." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1974", "text": "Scientists warn that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather changes." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1981", "text": "Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice, is sworn in." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1983", "text": "Maze Prison escape, County Antrim, Northern Ireland; 38 IRA prisoners escape in the largest prison breakout in British history; known among Irish republicans as the Great Escape." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1992", "text": "NASA launches Mars Observer probe; it failed 11 months later." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"1996", "text": "Ireland’s last Magdalene laundry closes; begun as asylums to rehabilitate \"fallen women,\" they increasingly took on prison-like qualities." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "China launches Shenzhou 7 spacecraft; crew performs China’s first extra-vehicular activity (EVA)." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"9", "year":"2009", "text": "US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy jointly accuse Iran of building a secrecy nuclear enrichment facility." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1580", "text": "Sir Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, aboard the Golden Hind, after a 33-month voyage to circumnavigate the globe." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1777", "text": "The British army launches a major offensive, capturing Philadelphia." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1786", "text": "France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1820", "text": "The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1826", "text": "The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1829", "text": "Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1864", "text": "General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1901", "text": "Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William McKinley, is sentenced to death.." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1913", "text": "The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama Canal." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1914", "text": "The Federal Trade Commission is established to foster competition by preventing monopolies in business." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1918", "text": "German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1937", "text": "Bessie Smith, known as the ‘Empress of the Blues,’ dies in a car crash in Mississippi." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1940", "text": "During the London Blitz, the underground Cabinet War Room suffers a hit when a bomb explodes on the Clive Steps." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1941", "text": "The U.S. Army establishes the Military Police Corps." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1950", "text": "General Douglas MacArthur’s American X Corps, fresh from the Inchon landing, links up with the U.S. Eighth Army after its breakout from the Pusan Perimeter." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1955", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1960", "text": "Vice President Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy participate in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1961", "text": "Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1967", "text": "Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1969", "text": "The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1972", "text": "Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1977", "text": "Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1983", "text": "In the USSR Stanislav Petrov disobeys procedures and ignores electronic alarms indicating five incoming nuclear missiles, believing the US would launch more than five if it wanted to start a war. His decision prevented a retaliatory attack that would have begun a nuclear war between the superpowers.." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1984", "text": "The UK agrees to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"1997", "text": "Two earthquakes strike Italy, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis to collapse, killing four people and destroying much of the cycle of frescoes depicting the saint’s life." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"9", "year":"2008", "text": "Yves Rossy, a Swiss pilot and inventor, is the first person to fly a jet-powered wing across the English Channel." }
+      ]
+   }
+]