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data/data/12/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1753", "text": "George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1770", "text": "The British soldiers responsible for the \"Boston Massacre\" are acquitted on murder charges." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1901", "text": "Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1927", "text": "Communists forces seize Canton, China." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1930", "text": "The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1930", "text": "The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1931", "text": "Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1943", "text": "The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1943", "text": "The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1956", "text": "The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1964", "text": "Kenya becomes a republic." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1964", "text": "Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1967", "text": "The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1979", "text": "South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, acting without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa, alleging that the chief of staff was involved in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1985", "text": "Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff at Gander, Newfoundland; among the 256 dead are 236 members of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1991", "text": "The Russian Federation becomes independent from the USSR." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"1995", "text": "Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco." },
+        { "day":"12", "month":"12", "year":"2000", "text": "The US Supreme Court announces its decision in Bush v. Gore, effectively ending legal changes to the results of that year’s Presidential election." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1789", "text": "The National Guard is created in France." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1812", "text": "The last remnants of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armeé reach the safety of Kovno, Poland, after the failed Russian campaign. Napoleon’s costly retreat from Moscow" },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1814", "text": "General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city. The Battle of New Orleans" },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "The Battle of Fredericksburg ends with the bloody slaughter of onrushing Union troops at Marye’s Heights. Maine’s Colonel Chamberlain at Marye’s Heights." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1902", "text": "The Committee of Imperial Defense holds its first meeting in London." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1908", "text": "The Dutch take two Venezuelan Coast Guard ships." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1937", "text": "The Japanese army occupies Nanking, China. Boeing’s Trailblazing P-26 Peashooters." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1940", "text": "Adolf Hitler issues preparations for Operation Martita, the German invasion of Greece." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "British forces launch an offensive in Libya." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1945", "text": "France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1951", "text": "After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1968", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1972", "text": "Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1973", "text": "Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"1985", "text": "France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"2001", "text": "Terrorists attach the Parliament of India Sansad; 15 people are killed, including the terrorists" },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"12", "year":"2003", "text": "Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein captured; he is found hiding in near his home town of Tikrit." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1799", "text": "George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1819", "text": "Alabama is admitted as the 22nd state, making 11 slave states and 11 free states." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "Prince Albert of England, one of the Union’s strongest advocates, dies." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean’s Station, Tenn." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1900", "text": "Max Planck presents the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1906", "text": "The first U1 submarine is brought into service in Germany. Italy’s MAS torpedo boats." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1908", "text": "The first truly representative Turkish Parliament opens." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1909", "text": "The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends with a \"declaration of war\" on U.S. Steel." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1911", "text": "Roald Amundsen and four others discover the South Pole." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1920", "text": "The League of Nations creates a credit system to aid Europe." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1939", "text": "The League of Nations drops the Soviet Union from its membership. Joseph Avenol sold out the League of Nations." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel orders the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline. Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach" },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1946", "text": "The United Nations adopt a disarmament resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1949", "text": "Bulgarian ex-Premier Traicho Kostov is sentenced to die for treason in Sofia." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1960", "text": "A U.S. Boeing B-52 bomber sets a 10,000-mile non-stop record without refueling." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1980", "text": "NATO warns the Soviets to stay out of the internal affairs of Poland, saying that intervention would effectively destroy the détente between the East and West." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "Israel’s Knesset passes the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights area." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1994", "text": "Construction begins on China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1995", "text": "The Dayton Agreement signed in Paris; establishes a general framework for ending the Bosnian War between Bosnia and Herzegovina." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"1999", "text": "Tens of thousands die as a result of flash floods caused by torrential rains in Vargas, Venezuela." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"2003", "text": "Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, narrowly escapes and assassination attempt." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"2004", "text": "The Millau Viaduct, the world’s tallest bridge, official opens near Millau, France." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"2008", "text": "Iraqi broadcast journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at US President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"12", "year":"2012", "text": "At Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn., 20 children and six adults are shot to death by a 20-year-old gunman who then commits suicide." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/15.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "Nathan Bedford Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, "The Beast" – but only after he leaves." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1864", "text": "The battle at Nashville begins." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1890", "text": "As U.S. Army soldiers attempt to arrest Sitting Bull at his cabin in Standing Rock, South Dakota, shooting breaks out and Lt. Bullhead shoots the great Sioux leader." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1903", "text": "The British parliament places a 15-year ban on whale hunting in Norway." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1920", "text": "China wins a place on the League Council; Austria is admitted." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1924", "text": "The Soviet Union warns the United States against repeated entry of ships into Soviet territorial waters." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1938", "text": "Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1944", "text": "The battle for Luzon begins." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1946", "text": "Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh sends a note to the new French Premier, Leon Blum, asking for peace talks." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1961", "text": "Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1965", "text": "The United States drops 12 tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1967", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair, the author of the controversial book The Jungle." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1972", "text": "The Commonwealth of Australia orders equal pay for women." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1973", "text": "The American Psychiatric Association votes 130 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1976", "text": "The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant causes one of the worst marine oil spills in history when it runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1978", "text": "US President Jimmy Carter announces the United States will recognize the People’s Republic of China and will sever all relations with Taiwan." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "In what is often called the first modern suicide bombing, a suicide car bomb kills 61 people at the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon; Iraq’s ambassador to Lebanon is among the casualties." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"1993", "text": "The Downing Street Declaration, issued jointly by UK and the Republic of Ireland, affirms the UK would transfer Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland only if a majority of Northern Ireland’s people approved." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"2001", "text": "The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after an 11-year, $27 million project to fortify it without eliminating its famed lean." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"12", "year":"2005", "text": "F-22 Raptor Stealth fighter enters active service with the US Air Force." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/16.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1431", "text": "Henry VI of England is crowned King of France." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1653", "text": "Oliver Cromwell takes on dictatorial powers with the title of \"Lord Protector.\"" },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1773", "text": "To protest the tax on tea from England, a group of young Americans, disguised as Indians, throw chests of tea from British ships in Boston Harbor." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1835", "text": "A fire in New York City destroys property estimated to be worth $20,000,000. It lasts two days, ravages 17 blocks, and destroys 674 buildings including the Stock Exchange, Merchants’ Exchange, Post Office, and the South Dutch Church." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate General Joseph Johnston takes command of the Army of Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1864", "text": "Union forces under General George H. Thomas win the battle at Nashville, smashing an entire Confederate army." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1930", "text": "In Spain, a general strike is called in support of the revolution." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1939", "text": "The National Women’s Party urges immediate congressional action on equal rights." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1940", "text": "British troops carry out an air raid on Italian Somalia." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1944", "text": "Germany mounts a major offensive in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. As the center of the Allied line falls back, it creates a bulge, leading to the name–the Battle of the Bulge." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1949", "text": "Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung is received at the Kremlin in Moscow." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1950", "text": "President Harry Truman declares a state of National Emergency as Chinese communists invade deeper into South Korea." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1976", "text": "President Jimmy Carter appoints Andrew Young as Ambassador to the United Nations." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1978", "text": "Cleveland becomes the first U.S. city to default since the depression." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"1998", "text": "The United States launches a missile attack on Iraq for failing to comply with United Nations weapons inspectors." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"12", "year":"2003", "text": "President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, which establishes the United States’ first national standards regarding email and gives the Federal Trade Commission authority to enforce the act." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/17.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1399", "text": "Tamerlane’s Mongols destroy the army of Mahmud Tughluk, Sultan of Delhi, at Panipat." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1861", "text": "The Stonewall Brigade begins to dismantle Dam No. 5 of the C&O Canal." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1886", "text": "At a Christmas party, Sam Belle shoots his old enemy Frank West, but is fatally wounded himself." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1903", "text": "Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1927", "text": "U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg suggests a worldwide pact renouncing war." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1938", "text": "Italy declares the 1935 pact with France invalid because ratifications had not been exchanged. France denies the argument." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1939", "text": "In the Battle of River Plate near Montevideo, Uruguay, the British trap the German pocket battleship Graf Spee. German Captain Langsdorf sinks his ship believing that resistance is hopeless." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1943", "text": "U.S. forces invade Japanese-held New Britain Island in New Guinea." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "The German Army renews the attack on the Belgian town of Losheimergraben against the defending Americans during the Battle of the Bulge." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "U.S. approves end to internment of Japanese Americans. U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issues Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that Japanese American \"evacuees\" from the West Coast could return to their homes effective January 2, 1945." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1948", "text": "The Smithsonian Institution accepts the Kitty Hawk – the Wright brothers’ plane." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1950", "text": "The French government appoints Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny to command their troops in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1952", "text": "Yugoslavia breaks relations with the Vatican." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "Ending an election campaign marked by bitterness and violence, Ferdinand Marcos is declared president of the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1981", "text": "Red Brigade terrorists kidnap Brigadier General James Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. NATO officer in Italy." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1989", "text": "The Simpsons, television’s longest-running animated series, makes its US debut." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1989", "text": "Fernando Color de Mello becomes Brazil’s first democratically elected president in nearly 30 years." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "1990", "text": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide wins Haiti’s first free election." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "2002", "text": "Congolese parties of the inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord in the Second Congo War, proviidn for transitional government and elections within two years." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"12", "year": "2010", "text": "Mohamed Bouazizi immolates himself, the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the subsequent Arab Spring." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/18.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1118", "text": "Afonso the Battler, the Christian King of Aragon captures Saragossa, Spain, causing a major blow to Muslim Spain." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1812", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in Paris after his disastrous campaign in Russia." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "Nathan Bedford Forrest engages and defeats a Federal cavalry force near Lexington in his continued effort to disrupt supply lines." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "Union General Ulysses S. Grant announces the organization of his army in the West. Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand are to be corps commanders." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1865", "text": "Slavery is abolished in the United States. The 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that \"neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.\"" },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1915", "text": "In a single night, about 20,000 Australian and New Zealand troops withdraw from Gallipoli, Turkey, undetected by the Turks defending the peninsula." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1916", "text": "The Battle of Verdun ends with the French and Germans each having suffered more than 330,000 killed and wounded in 10 months. It was the longest engagement of World War I." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1925", "text": "Soviet leaders Lev Kamenev and Grigori Zinoviev break with Joseph Stalin." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1940", "text": "Adolf Hitler issues his secret plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union–Operation Barbarossa." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Defended by 610 fighting men, the American-held island of Guam falls to more than 5,000 Japanese invaders in a three-hour battle." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Japan invades Hong Kong." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1942", "text": "Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "Japanese forces are repelled from northern Burma by British troops." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1951", "text": "North Koreans give the United Nations a list of 3,100 POWs." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1956", "text": "Japan is admitted to the United Nations." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1960", "text": "A rightist government is installed under Prince Boun Oum in Laos as the United States resumes arms shipments." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "U.S. Marines attack VC units in the Que Son Valley during Operation Harvest Moon." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1970", "text": "An atomic leak in Nevada forces hundreds of citizens to flee the test site." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1972", "text": "President Richard M. Nixon declares that the bombing of North Vietnam will continue until an accord can be reached (Operation Linebacker II)." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "1989", "text": "The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and economic communication." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "2002", "text": "California Gov. Gray Davis announces the state faces a record budget deficit; the looming $35 billion shortfall is almost double the amount reported a month earlier during the state’s gubernatorial campaign." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "2005", "text": "Civil war begins in Chad with an rebel assault on in Adre; the rebels are believed to be backed by Chad’s neighbor, The Sudan." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "2008", "text": "United Arab Emirates holds it first-ever elections." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"12", "year": "2010", "text": "In an opening act of Arab Spring, anti-government protests erupt in Tunisia." }      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1154", "text": "Henry II is crowned king of England." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1562", "text": "The French Wars of Religion between the Huguenots and the Catholics begins with the Battle of Dreux." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1793", "text": "French troops recapture Toulon from the British." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest begins tearing up the railroads in Union generals Grant and Rosecrans rear, causing considerable delays in the movement of Union supplies." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1900", "text": "The French Parliament votes amnesty for everyone involved in the Dreyfus Affair." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1909", "text": "American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Japanese land on Hong Kong and clash with British troops." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander in chief of the German army." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1942", "text": "The British advance 40 miles into Burma in a drive to oust the Japanese from the colony." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "During the Battle of the Bulge, American troops begin pulling back from the twin Belgian cities of Krinkelt and Rocherath in front of the advancing German Army." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1945", "text": "Congress confirms Eleanor Roosevelt as U.S. delegate to the United Nations." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1950", "text": "The North Atlantic Council names General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of Western European defense forces." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1959", "text": "Reputed to be the last civil war veteran, Walter Williams, dies at 117 in Houston." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1974", "text": "Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as vice president of the United states after a House of Representatives vote." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1982", "text": "Four bombs explode at South Africa’s only nuclear power station in Johannesburg." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1984", "text": "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement that committed Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of its capitalist system. Hong Kong was leased by China to Great Britain in 1898 for 99 years." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "1998", "text": "President Bill Clinton is impeached. The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton was the second president in American history to be impeached." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "2001", "text": "The highest barometric pressure ever recorded (1085.6 hPa, 32.06 inHg) occurs at Tosontsengel, Khovsgol, Mongolia." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "2001", "text": "Rioting begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the country’s economic crisis." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"12", "year": "2012", "text": "Park Geun-hye elected President of South Korea, the nation’s first female chief executive." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1804", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1805", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte celebrates the first anniversary of his coronation with a victory at Austerlitz over a Russian and Austrian army." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1823", "text": "President James Monroe proclaims the principles known as the Monroe Doctrine, "that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by European powers."" },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "General Braxton Bragg turns over command of the Army of Tennessee to General William Hardee at Dalton, Ga." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1864", "text": "Major General Grenville M. Dodge is named to replace General William Rosecrans as Commander of the Department of Missouri." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1867", "text": "People wait in mile-long lines to hear Charles Dickens give his first reading in New York City." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1907", "text": "Spain and France agree to enforce Moroccan measures adopted in 1906." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1909", "text": "J.P. Morgan acquires majority holdings in Equitable Life Co. This is the largest concentration of bank power to date." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1914", "text": "Austrian troops occupy Belgrade, Serbia." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1918", "text": "Armenia proclaims independence from Turkey." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1921", "text": "The first successful helium dirigible, C-7, makes a test flight in Portsmouth, Va." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1927", "text": "The new Ford Model A is introduced to the American public." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1932", "text": "Bolivia accepts Paraguay’s terms for a truce in the Chaco War." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1942", "text": "The Allies repel a strong Axis attack in Tunisia, North Africa." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1944", "text": "General George S. Patton’s troops enter the Saar Valley and break through the Siegfried line." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1946", "text": "The United States and Great Britain merge their German occupation zones." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1964", "text": "Brazil sends Juan Peron back to Spain, foiling his efforts to return to his native land." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1970", "text": "The U.S. Senate votes to give 48,000 acres of New Mexico back to the Taos Indians." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1980", "text": "A death squad in El Salvador murders four US nuns and churchwomen." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1982", "text": "Dentist Barney Clark receives the first permanent artificial heart, developed by Dr. Robert K. Jarvik." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1993", "text": "NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavor on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"1999", "text": "UK devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive, the administrative branch of the North Ireland legislature." },
+        { "day":"2", "month":"12", "year":"2001", "text": "Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, one of the most complex bankruptcy cases in US history." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/20.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "69", "text": "Vespians’s supporters enter Rome and discover Vitellius in hiding. He is dragged through the streets before being brutally murdered." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1355", "text": "Stephen Urosh IV of Serbia dies while marching to attack Constantinople." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1802", "text": "The United States buys the Louisiana territory from France." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1860", "text": "South Carolina secedes from the Union." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1861", "text": "English transports loaded with 8,000 troops set sail for Canada so that troops are available if the \"Trent Affair\" is not settled without war." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1924", "text": "Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving less than one year of a five year sentence for treason." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1930", "text": "Thousands of Spaniards sign a revolutionary manifesto." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1933", "text": "The German government announces 400,000 citizens are to be sterilized because of hereditary defects." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1938", "text": "First electronic television system is patented." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter combat against the Japanese over Kunming." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1943", "text": "Soviet forces halt a German army trying to relieve the besieged city of Stalingrad." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1946", "text": "Viet Minh and French forces fight fiercely in Annamite section of Hanoi." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1948", "text": "U.S. Supreme Court announces that it has no jurisdiction to hear the appeals of Japanese war criminals sentenced by the International Military Tribunal." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1960", "text": "National Liberation Front is formed by guerrillas fighting the Diem regime in South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1962", "text": "In its first free election in 38 years, the Dominican Republic chooses leftist Juan Bosch Gavino as president." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1963", "text": "Four thousand cross the Berlin Wall to visit relatives under a 17-day Christmas accord." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1989", "text": "U.S. troops invade Panama to oust General Manuel Noriega and replace him with Guillermo Endara." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1995", "text": "NATO begins peacekeeping operation in Bosnia." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "1996", "text": "NeXT merges with Apple Computer, leading to the development of groundbreaking Mac OS X." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"12", "year": "2007", "text": "Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the UK; previously, that honor belonged to Queen Victoria." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/21.json

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "68", "text": "Vespian, a gruff-spoken general of humble origins, enters Rome and is named emperor by the Senate." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1620", "text": "The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth Rock." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1708", "text": "French forces seize control of the eastern shore of Newfoundland after winning a victory at St. John’s." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1790", "text": "Samuel Slater opens the first cotton mill in the United States (in Rhode Island)." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel who have distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1866", "text": "Indians, led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, kill Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men who had ventured out from Fort Phil Kearny to cut wood." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1910", "text": "Over 2.5 million plague victims are reported in the An-Hul province of China." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1928", "text": "President Calvin Coolidge signs the Boulder Dam bill." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "German troops surround the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in Belgium." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1945", "text": "General George S. Patton dies at the age of 60 after being injured in a car accident." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1946", "text": "An earthquake and tidal wave kill hundreds in Japan." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1963", "text": "The Turk minority riots in Cyprus to protest anti-Turkish revisions in the constitution." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1964", "text": "Great Britain’s House of Commons votes to ban the death penalty." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "Four pacifists are indicted in New York for burning draft cards." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1969", "text": "American draft evaders gather for a holiday dinner in Montreal, Canada." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1986", "text": "500,000 Chinese students gather in Shanghai’s People’s Square calling for democratic reforms, including freedom of the press." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1988", "text": "Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, an hour after departure. All 259 passengers were killed in the explosion caused by a bomb– hidden inside an audio cassette player — that detonated inside the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. A shower of airplane parts falling from the sky also killed 11 Lockerbie residents." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1994", "text": "Popocatepetl, a volcano in Mexico spews forth gases and ash after nearly a half-century of dormancy." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "1995", "text": "The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"12", "year": "2004", "text": "A suicide bomber attacks the forward operating base next to the US military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, killing 22 people; it is the deadliest suicide attack on US soldiers during the Iraq War." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/22.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1135", "text": "Stephen of Blois is crowned the king of England." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1775", "text": "Esek Hopkins takes command of the Continental Navy — a total of seven ships." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1807", "text": "Congress passes the Embargo Act, which halts all trading completely. It is hoped that the act will keep the United States out the European Wars." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1829", "text": "The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens the first passenger railway line." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1918", "text": "The last of the food restrictions, enforced because of the shortages during World War I, are lifted." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1929", "text": "Soviet troops leave Manchuria after a truce is reached with the Chinese over the Eastern Railway dispute." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Japanese troops make an amphibious landing on the coast of Lingayen Gulf on Luzon, the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1942", "text": "The Soviets drive German troops back 15 miles at the Don River." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "During the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe responds to a German surrender request with a one word answer: \"Nuts!\"" },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1945", "text": "The United States recognizes Tito’s government in Yugoslavia." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "The EF-105F Wild Weasel makes its first kill over Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1966", "text": "The United States announces the allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight the famine in India." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1989", "text": "The Romanian government of Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown, ending 42 years of communist rule." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1989", "text": "The division of East and West Germany effectively ends when the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopens for the first time in nearly 30 years." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1992", "text": "What became known as the Archives of Terror are discovered in a police station near the capital of Paraguay, records detailing tens of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly imprisoned, tortured and / or killed by the security services of several South American governments." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "1997", "text": "Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes his disputed title of President of Somalia, an important step toward reconciliation in the country." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "2001", "text": "President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, takes over an interim government." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "2001", "text": "A passenger on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris, Richard Reid, unsuccessfully attempts to destroy the plane in flight by igniting explosives he’d hidden in his shoes." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "2008", "text": "Some 1.1 billion gallons of coal fly ash slurry flood part of Tennessee after an ash dike breaks at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, in the eastern part of the state." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"12", "year": "2010", "text": "US President Barack Obama signs a law officially repealing the 17-year-old policy known as \"Don’t ask, don’t tell\"; the new law permits homosexuals to serve openly in the US military." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/23.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1861", "text": "Lord Lyons, The British minister to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward, regarding the Trent affair." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1900", "text": "The Federal Party, which recognizes American sovereignty, is formed in the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1919", "text": "Great Britain institutes a new constitution for India." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1921", "text": "President Warren G. Harding frees Socialist Eugene Debs and 23 other political prisoners." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1933", "text": "Pope Pius XI condemns the Nazi sterilization program." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1937", "text": "London warns Rome to stop anti-British propaganda in Palestine." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1939", "text": "The first Canadian troops arrive in Britain." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1940", "text": "Chiang Kai-shek dissolves all Communist associations in China." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Despite throwing back an earlier Japanese amphibious assault, the U.S. Marines and Navy defenders on Wake Island capitulate to a second Japanese invasion." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "General Dwight D. Eisenhower confirms the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American shot for desertion since the Civil War." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1947", "text": "President Harry S Truman grants a pardon to 1,523 who had evaded the World War II draft." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1948", "text": "Japan’s Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo and six other collaborators are hanged for war crimes." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1950", "text": "General Walton H. Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is killed in a jeep accident. Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgeway is named his successor." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1967", "text": "U.S. Navy SEALs are ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1974", "text": "The B-1 bomber makes its first successful test flight." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1986", "text": "The Voyager completes the first nonstop flight around the globe on one load of fuel. The experimental aircraft, piloted Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after nine days and four minutes in the sky." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "1990", "text": "In a referendum on Sovlenia’s independence from Yugoslovia, 88.5% vote in favor of independence." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"12", "year": "2002", "text": "An Iraqi MiG-25 shoots down a US MQ-1 Predator drone." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/24.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1638", "text": "The Ottomans under Murad IV recapture Baghdad from Safavid Persia." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1812", "text": "Joel Barlow, aged 58, American poet and lawyer, dies from exposure near Vilna, Poland, during Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Barlow was on a diplomatic mission to the emperor for President Madison." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1814", "text": "A treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, ending the War of 1812, is signed at Ghent, Belgium. The news does not reach the United States until two weeks later (after the decisive American victory at New Orleans)." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1861", "text": "The USS Gem of the Sea destroys the British blockade runner Prince of Wales off the coast at Georgetown, S.C." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "A Christmas present arrives a day early for the Federal troops at Columbus, Kentucky, in the way of artillery on board the USS New Era." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1914", "text": "Over 577,000 Allied soldiers are to spend Christmas as prisoners in Germany." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1917", "text": "The Kaiser warns Russia that he will use \"iron fist\" and \"shining sword\" if peace is spurned." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1943", "text": "General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed the Allied Supreme Commander, even though almost everyone believed the position would go to American Chief of Staff George C. Marshall." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1947", "text": "An estimated 20,000 communists, led by guerrilla General Markos Vafthiades proclaim the Free Greek Government in northern Greece. They issue a call to arms to establish the regime throughout the nation." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1956", "text": "African Americans defy a city law in Tallahassee, Florida, and occupy front bus seats." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1963", "text": "New York’s Idlewild Airport is renamed JFK Airport in honor of the murdered President Kennedy." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1964", "text": "The U.S. headquarters in Saigon is hit by a bomb killing two officers." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1966", "text": "A Soviet research vehicle soft-lands on the moon." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1967", "text": "The Greek Junta frees ex-Premier Papandreou." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1968", "text": "The first pictures of an Earth-rise over the moon are seen as the crew of Apollo 8 orbits the moon." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1970", "text": "Nine GIs are killed and nine are wounded by friendly fire in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1972", "text": "Hanoi bars all peace talks with the United States until U.S. air raids over North Vietnam stop." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1974", "text": "An oil tanker’s spill pollutes 1,600 square miles of Japan’s Inland Sea." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "1974", "text": "Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, destroying more than 70 percent of the city’s buildings, including 80 percent of its houses." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"12", "year": "2005", "text": "Chad declares a state of war against Sudan in the wake of the Dec. 18 attack on the town of Adre, in which approximately 100 people were killed." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/25.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "376", "text": "In Milan, Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, forces the emperor Theodosius to perform public penance for his massacre." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "800", "text": "The pope crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1066", "text": "William I is crowned king of England." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1621", "text": "The governor of New Plymouth prevents newcomers from playing cards." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1651", "text": "The General Court of Boston levies a five shilling fine on anyone caught "observing any such day as Christmas."" },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1776", "text": "Patriot General George Washington crosses the Delaware River with 5,400 troops during the American Revolution. Washington hoped to surprise a Hessian force celebrating Christmas at their winter quarters in Trenton, New Jersey." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1861", "text": "Stonewall Jackson spends Christmas with his wife; their last together." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "John Hunt Morgan and his raiders clash with Union forces near Bear Wallow, Kentucky." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "President and Mrs. Lincoln visit hospitals in the Washington D.C. area on this Christmas Day." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1912", "text": "Italy lands troops in Albania to protect its interests during a revolt there." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1914", "text": "German and British troops on the Western Front declare an unofficial truce to celebrate Christmas during World War I." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1918", "text": "A revolt erupts in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1925", "text": "U.S. troops in Nicaragua disarm insurgents in support of the Diaz regime." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1927", "text": "The Mexican congress opens land to foreign investors, reversing the 1917 ban enacted to preserve the domestic economy." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1939", "text": "Finnish troops enter Soviet territory." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Free French troops occupy the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "Prime Minister Winston Churchill goes to Athens to seek an end to the Greek civil war." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1946", "text": "Chiang Kai-shek offers a new Chinese constitution in Nanking pledging universal suffrage." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1950", "text": "Scottish nationalists steal the Stone of Scone from the British coronation throne in Westminster Abbey. The 485 pound stone was recovered in April 1951." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1962", "text": "The Bay of Pigs captives, upon their return to the United States, vow to return to Cuba and topple Fidel Castro." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "Entertainer Chris Noel gives her first performance for the USO at two hospitals in California; became a star on Armed Forces Radio and Television, entertaining troops in Vietnam; in 1984 Veterans Network honored her with a Distinguished Vietnam Veteran award." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1973", "text": "U.S. astronauts onboard the Skylab space station take a seven-hour walk in space and photograph the comet Kohoutek." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1976", "text": "Over 100 Muslims, returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, die when their boat sinks." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1979", "text": "Egypt begins major restoration of the Sphinx." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "1991", "text": "Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s first and last executive president, resigns. The Soviet Union no longer exsists." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"12", "year": "2006", "text": "James Brown, the \"Godfather of Soul\", dies at age 73." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1776", "text": "After crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, George Washington leads an attack on Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and takes 900 men prisoner." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1786", "text": "Daniel Shay leads a rebellion in Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1806", "text": "Napoleon’s army is checked by the Russians at the Battle of Pultusk." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "38 Santee Sioux are hanged in Mankato, Minnesota for their part in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Little Crow has fled the state." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1866", "text": "Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, head of the Department of the Platte, receives word of the Fetterman Fight in Powder River County in the Dakota territory." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1917", "text": "As a wartime measure, President Woodrow Wilson places railroads under government control, with Secretary of War William McAdoo as director general." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1925", "text": "Six U.S. destroyers are ordered from Manila to China to protect interests in the civil war that is being waged there." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1932", "text": "Over 70,000 people are killed in a massive earthquake in China." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "General Douglas MacArthur declares Manila an open city in the face of the onrushing Japanese Army." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1943", "text": "The German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk by British ships in an Arctic fight." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "Advancing Soviet troops complete their encirclement of Budapest in Hungary." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1945", "text": "The United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain, end a 10-day meeting, seeking an atomic rule by the UN Council." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1953", "text": "The United States announces the withdrawal of two divisions from Korea." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1962", "text": "Eight East Berliners escape to West Berlin, crashing through gates in an armor-plated bus." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1966", "text": "Dr. Maulana Karenga celebrates the first Kwanza, a seven-day African-American celebration of family and heritage." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1979", "text": "The Soviet Union flies 5,000 troops to intervene in the Afghanistan conflict." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1982", "text": "Time magazine chooses a personal computer as it \"Man of the Year,\" the first non-human ever to receive th honor." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1991", "text": "The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union formally dissolves the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1996", "text": "JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, is found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, one of the most high-profile crimes of the late 20th century in the US." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1996", "text": "Workers in South Korea’s automotive and shipbuilding industries begin the largest labor strike in that country’s history, protesting a new law that made firing employees easier and would curtail the rights of labor groups to organize." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "1999", "text": "Lothar, a violent, 36-hour windstorm begins; it kills 137 and causes $1.3 billion (US dollars) damage in Central Europe." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "2004", "text": "A tsunami caused by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake kills more than 230,000 along the rim of the Indian Ocean." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"12", "year": "2006", "text": "Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford dies at age 93. Ford was the only unelected president in America’s history." }
+      ]
+   }
+]