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data/data/2/16.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"374",
+            "text":"9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"600",
+            "text":"Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying \"God bless You\" is the correct response to a sneeze"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1249",
+            "text":"Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1486",
+            "text":"Diet of Frankfort"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1512",
+            "text":"Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1559",
+            "text":"Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1641",
+            "text":"English king Charles I accepts Triennial Act"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1646",
+            "text":"Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1659",
+            "text":"1st known cheque (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1666",
+            "text":"Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1677",
+            "text":"Earl of Shaftesbury arrested and confined in the Tower of London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1741",
+            "text":"Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"16",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1742",
+            "text":"Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier (First Lord of the Treasury)"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/17.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1370",
+            "text":"Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1500",
+            "text":"Battle of Hemmingstedt."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1568",
+            "text":"Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1598",
+            "text":"Boris Godunov chosen as Tsar of Russia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1600",
+            "text":"Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged with heresy."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1621",
+            "text":"Myles Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1634",
+            "text":"William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing \"Histrio-masti\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1670",
+            "text":"France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1691",
+            "text":"Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1714",
+            "text":"Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's \"Unigenitus\" degree"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1772",
+            "text":"1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1776",
+            "text":"1st volume of Gibbon's \"Decline & Fall of Roman Empire\" published"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1791",
+            "text":"Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"17",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1795",
+            "text":"Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/18.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"3102 BC",
+            "text":"Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1129",
+            "text":"Jerusalem re-taken by Christians in peace treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1268",
+            "text":"The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1332",
+            "text":"Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1478",
+            "text":"George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1503",
+            "text":"Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1536",
+            "text":"France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1563",
+            "text":"Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots gen Francois De Guise"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1574",
+            "text":"Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1634",
+            "text":"Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein's execution"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"18",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1678",
+            "text":"John Bunyan's \"Pilgrim's Progress\" is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"197",
+            "text":"Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"356",
+            "text":"Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"607",
+            "text":"Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"842",
+            "text":"Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1512",
+            "text":"French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1537",
+            "text":"Weavers of Leiden, Netherlands, strike"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1539",
+            "text":"Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1574",
+            "text":"Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp, Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1582",
+            "text":"Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1594",
+            "text":"Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1600",
+            "text":"The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1634",
+            "text":"Battle of Smolensk: King Wladyslaw IV of Poland beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1674",
+            "text":"Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/2.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"506",
+            "text":"Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Lex Romania Visigothorum (or Breviary of Alaric), a collection of Roman law"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"962",
+            "text":"Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1032",
+            "text":"Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1119",
+            "text":"Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1141",
+            "text":"Battle of Lincoln: King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1461",
+            "text":"2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1536",
+            "text":"Pedro de Mendoza founds Argentine city of Buenos Aires"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1542",
+            "text":"Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1550",
+            "text":"Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, freed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1633",
+            "text":"M Rossi's opera \"Erminia sul Giordano\" premieres in Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1637",
+            "text":"Zorilla's \"El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las\" premieres in Madrid"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1653",
+            "text":"New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1709",
+            "text":"British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires \"Robinson Crusoe\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1714",
+            "text":"Nicholas Rowe's \"tragedy of Jane Shore\" premieres in London"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/20.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1513",
+            "text":"Pope Julius II dies. He will lay in rest in a huge tomb sculptured by Michelangelo."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1725",
+            "text":"New Hampshire militiamen partake in the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":"The U.S. Postal Service is created."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1809",
+            "text":"The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the Union."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]