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data/data/12/27.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1512", "text": "The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal protection against abuse and authorize Negro slavery." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1831", "text": "HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, departs from Plymouth. It will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where Darwin will form his theories on evolution." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "Union General William Rosecrans’ army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from Nashville." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1913", "text": "Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1915", "text": "In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an eight-hour day and higher wages." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1932", "text": "Radio City Music Hall opens." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1933", "text": "Josef Stalin calls tensions with Japan a grave danger." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1939", "text": "A series of vicious earthquakes take 11,000 lives in Turkey." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "Japanese bombers attack Manila, despite its claim as an open city." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "General George S. Patton’s Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1945", "text": "The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1947", "text": "The new Italian constitution is promulgated in Rome." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1950", "text": "The United States and Spain resume relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1956", "text": "Segregation on buses in Tallahassee, Florida, is outlawed." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1968", "text": "The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1979", "text": "President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1983", "text": "President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1984", "text": "Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1985", "text": "Palestinian guerrillas kill 18 people at airports in Rome and Vienna." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "1996", "text": "Taliban forces retake strategic Bagram Airfield during Afghan civil war." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "2001", "text": "China receives permanent normal trade relations with the US." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "2004", "text": "Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "2007", "text": "Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"12", "year": "2007", "text": "After Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential elections, rioting begins in Mombasa, precipitating an economic, humanitarian and political crisis." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/28.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1688", "text": "William of Orange makes a triumphant march into London as James II flees." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1694", "text": "George I of England gets divorced." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1846", "text": "Iowa is admitted as the 29th State of the Union." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1872", "text": "A U.S. Army force defeats a group of Apache warriors at Salt River Canyon, Arizona Territory, with 57 Indians killed but only one soldier." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1904", "text": "Farmers in Georgia burn two million bales of cotton to prop up falling prices." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1920", "text": "The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1933", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt states, \"The definite policy of the United States, from now on, is one opposed to armed intervention.\"" },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1936", "text": "Benito Mussolini sends planes to Spain to support Francisco Franco’s forces." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1938", "text": "France orders the doubling of forces in Somaliland; two warships are sent." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1946", "text": "The French declare martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appears inevitable." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1948", "text": "Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt is assassinated by a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1951", "text": "The United States pays $120,000 to free four fliers convicted of espionage in Hungary." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1968", "text": "Israel attacks an airport in Beirut, destroying 13 planes." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"12", "year": "1971", "text": "The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/29.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1170", "text": "Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of Henry II." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1607", "text": "Indian chief Powhatan spares John Smith’s life after the pleas of his daughter Pocahontas." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1778", "text": "British troops, attempting a new strategy to defeat the colonials in America, capture Savannah." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1845", "text": "Texas (comprised of the present state of Texas and part of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming) is admitted as the 28th state of the Union, with the provision that the area (389,166 square miles) should be divided into no more than five states "of convenient size."" },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1849", "text": "Gas lighting is installed in the White House." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "Union General William T. Sherman’s troops try to gain the north side of Vicksburg in the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1890", "text": "The last major conflict of the Indian wars takes place at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota after Colonel James W. Forsyth of the 7th Cavalry tries to disarm Chief Big Foot and his followers." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1914", "text": "The production of Belgian newspapers is halted to protest German censorship." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1921", "text": "Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald pledges $20 million of his personal fortune to help Sears through hard times." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1926", "text": "Germany and Italy sign an arbitration treaty." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1934", "text": "Japan formally denounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1940", "text": "In a radio interview, President Roosevelt proclaims the United States to be the \"arsenal of democracy.\"" },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1940", "text": "London suffers its most devastating air raid when Germans firebomb the city on the evening of December 29." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1948", "text": "Tito declares Yugoslavia will follow its own path to Communism." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1956", "text": "President Dwight Eisenhower asks Congress for the authority to oppose Soviet aggression in the Middle East." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "A Christmas truce is observed in Vietnam, while President Johnson tries to get the North Vietnamese to the bargaining table." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"12", "year": "1981", "text": "President Ronald Reagan curtails Soviet trade in reprisal for its hash policies on Poland." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/3.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1468",  "text": "Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano succeed their father, Piero de Medici, as rulers of Florence, Italy." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1762",  "text": "France cedes to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi–the territory known as Upper Louisiana." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1818",  "text": "Illinois admitted into the Union as the 21st state." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1800",  "text": "The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenlinden, near Munich." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1847",  "text": "Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1862",  "text": "Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1863",  "text": "Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1864",  "text": "Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1906",  "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court orders Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1915",  "text": "The United States expels German attaches on spy charges." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1916",  "text": "French commander Joseph Joffre is dismissed after his failure at the Somme. General Robert Nivelle is the new French commander in chief." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1918",  "text": "The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1925",  "text": "The League of Nations orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the October invasion of Bulgaria." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1926",  "text": "British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1950",  "text": "The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1965",  "text": "The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1977",  "text": "The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1979",  "text": "Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1984",  "text": "Toxic gas leaks from a Union Carbide plant and results in the deaths of thousands in Bhopal, India." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1989",  "text": "Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1992",  "text": "A test engineer for Sema Group sends the world’s first text message, using a personal computer and the Vodafone network." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"1997",  "text": "Representatives of 121 nations sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the manufacture or deployment of antipersonnel landmines; the People’s Republic of China, the US and the USSR do not sign." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"2005",  "text": "First manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail takes place in Mojave, Cal." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"12", "year":"2009",  "text": "Suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three miniseries of the Transitional Federal Government." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1460", "text": "The Duke of York is defeated and killed by Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1803", "text": "The United States takes possession of the Louisiana area from France at New Orleans with a simple ceremony, the simultaneous lowering and raising of the national flags." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1861", "text": "Banks in the United States suspend the practice of redeeming paper money for metal currency, a practice that would continue until 1879." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet for comment." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1905", "text": "Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho is killed by an assassin’s bomb." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1922", "text": "Soviet Russia is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1932", "text": "The Soviet Union bars food handouts for housewives under 36 years of age. They must now work to eat." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1947", "text": "Romania’s King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists. Communists now control all of Eastern Europe." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "Ferdinand E. Marcos is sworn in as the Philippine Republic’s sixth president." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1972", "text": "After two weeks of heavy bombing raids on North Vietnam, President Nixon halts the air offensive and agrees to resume peace negotiations with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "1976", "text": "Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"12", "year": "2006", "text": "Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/31.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1775", "text": "George Washington orders recruiting officers to accept free blacks into the army." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1852", "text": "The richest year of the gold rush ends with $81.3 million in gold produced." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1862", "text": "Union General William Rosecrans’ army repels two Confederate attacks at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone’s River)." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1910", "text": "John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey, two of America’s foremost aviators, die in separate plane crashes." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1911", "text": "Helene Dutrieu wins the Femina aviation cup in Etampes. She sets a distance record for women at 158 miles." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1915", "text": "The Germans torpedo the British liner Persia without any warning killing 335 passengers." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1923", "text": "The Sahara is crossed by an automobile for the first time." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1930", "text": "Brewery heir Adolphus Busch is kidnapped." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1941", "text": "General MacArthur reports that U.S. lines in Manila have been pushed back by the Japanese." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1942", "text": "After five months of battle, Emperor Hirohito allows the Japanese commanders at Guadalcanal to retreat." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1944", "text": "Hungary declares war on Germany." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1965", "text": "California becomes the largest state in population." },
+          { "day":"31", "month":"12", "year": "1977", "text": "Cambodia breaks relations with Vietnam." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/4.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"771", "text": "With the death of his brother Carloman, Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the Frankish Empire." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "The U.S. Senate, voting 36 to 0, expels Senator John C. Brekinridge of Kentucky because of his joining the Confederate Army." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "Queen Victoria of Britain forbids the export of gunpowder, firearms and all materials for their production." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "Winchester, Va., falls into Union hands, resulting in the capture of 145 Southern soldiers." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Seven solid days of bombardment ends at Charleston, S.C. The Union fires some 1,307 rounds." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1872", "text": "The U.S. brigantine Marie Celeste is found adrift and deserted with its cargo intact, in the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Portugal." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1900", "text": "The French National Assembly, successor to the States-General, rejects Nationalist General Mercier’s proposal to plan an invasion of England." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1914", "text": "The first Seaplane Unit formed by the German Navy officially comes into existence and begins operations from Zeebrugge, Belgium." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1918", "text": "France cancels trade treaties in order to compete in the postwar economic battles." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Operation Taifun (Typhoon), which was launched by the German armies on October 2, 1941, as a prelude to taking Moscow, is halted because of freezing temperatures and lack of serviceable aircraft." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1942", "text": "U.S. planes make the first raids on Naples, Italy." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1947", "text": "Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire premieres on Broadway starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1950", "text": "The University of Tennessee defies court rulings by rejecting five Negro applicants." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1952", "text": "The Grumman XS2F-1 makes its first flight." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1959", "text": "Peking pardons Pu Yi, ex-emperor of China and of the Japanese puppet-state of Manchukuo." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "President Ronald Reagan broadens the power of the CIA by allowing spying in the United States." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1985", "text": "Robert McFarland resigns as National Security Advisor. Admiral John Poindexter is named to succeed." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1991", "text": "The last American hostages held in Lebanon are released." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"12", "year":"1992", "text": "US Pres. George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 troops to Somalia during the Somali Civil War." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/5.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1484", "text": "Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1776", "text": "Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1791", "text": "Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1904", "text": "The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1909", "text": "George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1912", "text": "Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1916", "text": "David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1921", "text": "The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group the Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1933", "text": "The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1934", "text": "Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual on disputed the Somali-Ethiopian border." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1936", "text": "The New Constitution in the Soviet Union promises universal suffrage, but the Communist Party remains the only legal political party." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1937", "text": "The Lindberghs arrive in New York on a holiday visit after a two-year voluntary exile." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1945", "text": "Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1950", "text": "Pyongyang in Korea falls to the invading Chinese army." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1953", "text": "Italy and Yugoslavia agree to pull troops out of the disputed Trieste border." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1955", "text": "A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1966", "text": "Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory heads for Hanoi, North Vietnam, despite federal warnings against it." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1978", "text": "The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"1983", "text": "Military Junta dissolves in Argentina." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"2006", "text": "Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"12", "year":"2007", "text": "A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/6.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1492", "text": "Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Santo Domingo in search of gold." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1776", "text": "Phi Beta Kappa, the first scholastic fraternity, is founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1812", "text": "The majority of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armeé staggers into Vilna, Lithuania, ending the failed Russian campaign." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "Union General George G. Meade leads a foraging expedition to Gunnell’s farm near Dranesville, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 of the 303 convicted Indians who participated in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. They are to be hanged on December 26." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "The monitor Weehawken sinks in Charleston Harbor." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1876", "text": "Jack McCall is convicted for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok and sentenced to hang." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1877", "text": "Thomas A. Edison makes the first sound recording when he recites \"Mary had a Little Lamb\" into his phonograph machine." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1906", "text": "Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge flies a powered, man-carrying kite that carries him 168 feet in the air for seven minutes at Baddeck, Nova Scotia." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1917", "text": "The Bolsheviks imprison Czar Nicholas II and his family in Tobolsk." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1921", "text": "Ireland’s 26 southern counties become independent from Britain forming the Irish Free State." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1922", "text": "Benito Mussolini threatens Italian newspapers with censorship if they keep reporting \"false\" information." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1934", "text": "American Ambassador Davis says Japan is a grave security threat in the Pacific." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1938", "text": "France and Germany sign a treaty of friendship." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1939", "text": "Britain agrees to send arms to Finland, which is fighting off a Soviet invasion." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues a personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito to use his influence to avoid war." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1945", "text": "The United States extends a $3 billion loan to Great Britain to help compensate for the termination of the Lend-Lease agreement." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1947", "text": "Florida’s Everglades National Park is established." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1948", "text": "The \"Pumpkin Spy Papers\" are found on the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers. They become evidence that State Department employee Alger Hiss is spying for the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1957", "text": "Vanguard TV3 explodes on the launchpad, thwarting the first US attempt to launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1967", "text": "Adrian Kantrowitz performs first human heart transplant in the US." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1969", "text": "Hells Angels, hired to provide security at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California, beat to death concert-goer Meredith Hunter." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1971", "text": "Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi recognizes the state of Bangladesh." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1973", "text": "US House of Representatives confirms Gerald Ford as Vice-President of the United States, 387–35." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1975", "text": "A Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, and a 6-day siege begins." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1976", "text": "Democrat Tip O’Neill is elected speaker of the House of Representatives. He will serve the longest consecutive term as speaker." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"1992", "text": "The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, is destroyed during a riot that started as a political protest." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"12", "year":"2006", "text": "NASA reveals photographs from Mars Global Surveyor that suggest the presence of water on the red planet." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"43 BC", "text": "Cicero, considered one of the greatest sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of Marcus Antonius." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"983", "text": "Otto III takes the throne after his father’s death in Italy. A power struggle between magnates ensues." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1787", "text": "Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1808", "text": "James Madison is elected president in succession of Thomas Jefferson." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the \"Innocents,\" robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1917", "text": "The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congress." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1918", "text": "Spartacists call for a German revolution." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1931", "text": "A report indicates that Nazis would ensure \"Nordic dominance\" by sterilizing certain races." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a surprise attack, bringing the US into WWII." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1942", "text": "The U.S. Navy launches USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1946", "text": "The president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, orders all striking miners back to work." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1949", "text": "The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organize a non-Communist international trade union." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1970", "text": "Poland and West Germany sign a pact renouncing the use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland’s western frontier, and acknowledging the transfer to Poland of 40,000 square miles of former German territory." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1972", "text": "The crew of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "The Reagan Administration predicts a record deficit in 1982 of $109 billion." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1988", "text": "An earthquake in Armenia kills an estimated 100,000 people." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1988", "text": "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recognizes Israel’s right to exist." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1995", "text": "Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter after a 6-year journey." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"1999", "text": "The Recording Industry Association of America files a copyright infringement suit against the file-sharing website Napster." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"2003", "text": "A tornado in Kensal Green, North West London, damages about 150 properties." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"12", "year":"2006", "text": "An earthquake in Armenia kills an estimated 100,000 people." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1660", "text": "The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Union General William Averell’s cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1914", "text": "The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1920", "text": "President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1932", "text": "Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1943", "text": "U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1944", "text": "The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1948", "text": "The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1967", "text": "In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1968", "text": "South Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1980", "text": "John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1982", "text": "The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1987", "text": "The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1987", "text": "An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"1991", "text": "The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"2004", "text": "The Cuzco Declaration signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"2010", "text": "SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"12", "year":"2010", "text": "The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"536	", "text": "Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1867", "text": "The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1872", "text": "P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1900", "text": "The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger’s pleas for aid in South Africa against the British." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1908", "text": "A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1917", "text": "The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1940", "text": "The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1948", "text": "The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1949", "text": "The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1950", "text": "President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1950", "text": "Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1955", "text": "Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1960", "text": "The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1990", "text": "Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"1992", "text": "U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"12", "year":"2008", "text": "Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/1.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"772",
+            "text":"Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1327",
+            "text":"Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1539",
+            "text":"Emperor Karel & King Francois I sign anti-English treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1587",
+            "text":"Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1662",
+            "text":"Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders to Chinese pirates"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1669",
+            "text":"French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1713",
+            "text":"The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1717",
+            "text":"Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1720",
+            "text":"Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1732",
+            "text":"Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1742",
+            "text":"Sardinia and Austria sign alliance"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1783",
+            "text":"William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1788",
+            "text":"1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1789",
+            "text":"Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1790",
+            "text":"Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1793",
+            "text":"France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/10.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"60",
+            "text":"St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1098",
+            "text":"Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1355",
+            "text":"The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 62 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1525",
+            "text":"Albert of Prussia pledges a personal oath to Sigismund I and is invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1535",
+            "text":"12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1549",
+            "text":"Tomé de Sousa appointed governor general of Brazil"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1635",
+            "text":"Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1676",
+            "text":"Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1713",
+            "text":"Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1716",
+            "text":"Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1720",
+            "text":"Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1746",
+            "text":"English Pelham government resigns"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1749",
+            "text":"10th (final) volume of Fielding's \"Tom Jones\" is published"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1763",
+            "text":"Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]