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data/data/2/21.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1595", "text": "The Jesuit poet Robert Southwell is hanged for \"treason\" being a Catholic." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1631", "text": "Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, is elected Russian Tsar." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1744", "text": "The British blockade of Toulon is broken by 27 French and Spanish warships attacking 29 British ships." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1775", "text": "As troubles with Great Britain increase, colonists in Massachusetts vote to buy military equipment for 15,000 men." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1797", "text": "Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1828", "text": "The first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee alphabet." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1849", "text": "In the Second Sikh War, Sir Hugh Gough’s well placed guns win a victory over a Sikh force twice the size of his at Gujerat on the Chenab River, assuring British control of the Punjab for years to come." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1862", "text": "The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1878", "text": "The world’s first telephone book is issued by the New Haven Connecticut Telephone Company containing the names of its 50 subscribers." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1885", "text": "The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1905", "text": "The Mukden campaign of the Russo-Japanese War, begins." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1916", "text": "The battle of Verdun begins with an unprecedented German artillery barrage of the French lines." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1940", "text": "The Germans begin construction of a concentration camp at Auschwitz." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1944", "text": "Hideki Tojo becomes chief of staff of the Japanese army." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1949", "text": "Nicaragua and Costa Rica sign a friendship treaty ending hostilities over their borders." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1951", "text": "The U. S. Eighth Army launches Operation Killer, a counterattack to push Chinese forces north of the Han River in Korea." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1956", "text": "A grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicts 115 in a Negro bus boycott." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1960", "text": "Havana places all Cuban industry under direct control of the government." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1965", "text": "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) is assassinated in front of 400 people." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1972", "text": "Richard Nixon arrives in Beijing, China, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"2", "year": "1974", "text": "A report claims that the use of defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for a century." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/22.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1349", "text": "Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1613", "text": "Mikhail Romanov is elected czar of Russia." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1732", "text": "George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1797", "text": "The last invasion of Britain takes place when some 1,400 Frenchmen land at Fishguard in Wales." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1819", "text": "Spain signs a treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1825", "text": "Russia and Britain establish the Alaska/Canada boundary." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1862", "text": "Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1864", "text": "Nathan Bedford Forrest’s brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1865", "text": "Federal troops capture Wilmington, N.C." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1879", "text": "Frank Winfield Woolworth’s ‘nothing over five cents’ shop opens at Utica, New York. It is the first chain store." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1902", "text": "A fistfight breaks out in the Senate. Senator Benjamin Tillman suffers a bloody nose for accusing Senator John McLaurin of bias on the Philippine tariff issue." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1909", "text": "The Great White Fleet returns to Norfolk, Virginia, from an around-the-world show of naval power." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1911", "text": "Canadian Parliament votes to preserve the union with the British Empire." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1920", "text": "The American Relief Administration appeals to the public to pressure Congress to aid starving European cities." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1924", "text": "Columbia University declares radio education a success." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1926", "text": "Pope Pius rejects Mussolini’s offer of aid to the Vatican." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1932", "text": "Adolf Hitler is the Nazi Party candidate for the presidential elections in Germany." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1935", "text": "All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt’s sleep." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1942", "text": "President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1951", "text": "The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1952", "text": "French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1954", "text": "U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1962", "text": "A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1963", "text": "Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1967", "text": "Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"2", "year": "1984", "text": "Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/23.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "303", "text":  "Emperor Diocletian orders the general persecution of Christians in Rome." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1516", "text": "The Hapsburg Charles I succeeds Ferdinand in Spain." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1540", "text": "Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado begins his unsuccessful search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the American Southwest." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1574", "text": "The 5th War of Religion breaks out in France." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1615", "text": "The Estates-General in Paris is dissolved, having been in session since October 1614." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1778", "text": "Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1821", "text": "Poet John Keats dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1836", "text": "The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1846", "text": "The Liberty Bell tolls for the last time, to mark George Washington’s birthday." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1847", "text": "Forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at the Battle of Buena Vista." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1854", "text": "Great Britain officially recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1861", "text": "Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1885", "text": "John Lee survives three attempts to hang him in Exeter Prison, as the trap fails to open." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1898", "text": "Writer Emile Zola is imprisoned in France for his letter J’accuse in which he accuses the French government of anti-semitism and the wrongful imprisonment of army captain Alfred Dreyfus." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1901", "text": "Britain and Germany agree on a boundary between German East Africa and Nyasaland." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1904", "text": "Japan guarantees Korean sovereignty in exchange for military assistance." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1916", "text": "Secretary of State Lansing hints that the U.S. may have to abandon the policy of avoiding \"entangling foreign alliances\"." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1921", "text": "An airmail plane sets a record of 33 hours and 20 minutes from San Francisco to New York." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1926", "text": "President Calvin Coolidge opposes a large air force, believing it would be a menace to world peace." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1936", "text": "In Russia, an unmanned balloon rises to a record height of 25 miles." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1938", "text": "Twelve Chinese fighter planes drop bombs on Japan." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1942", "text": "A Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, the first Axis bombs to hit American soil." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1944", "text": "American bombers strike the Marianas Islands bases, only 1,300 miles from Tokyo." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1945", "text": "Eisenhower opens a large offensive in the Rhineland." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1945", "text": "U.S. Marines plant an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1946", "text": "Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita is hanged in Manila, the Philippines, for war crimes." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1947", "text": "Several hundred Nazi organizers are arrested in Frankfurt by U.S. and British forces." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1950", "text": "New York’s Metropolitan Museum exhibits a collection of Hapsburg art. The first showing of this collection in the U.S." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1954", "text": "Mass innoculation begins as Salk’s polio vaccine is given to children for first time." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1955", "text": "Eight nations meet in Bangkok for the first SEATO council." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1960", "text": "Whites join Negro students in a sit-in at a Winston-Salem, N.C. Woolworth store." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1964", "text": "The U.S. and Britain recognize the new Zanzibar government." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1967", "text": "American troops begin the largest offensive of the war, near the Cambodian border." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1972", "text": "Black activist Angela Davis is released from jail where she was held for kidnapping , conspiracy and murder." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"2", "year": "1991", "text": "French forces unofficially start the Persian Gulf ground war by crossing the Saudi-Iraqi border." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/24.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "786", "text" : "Pepin the Short of Gaul dies. His dominions are divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1525", "text": "In the first of the Franco-Habsburg Wars, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V captures the French king Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, Italy." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1538", "text": "Ferdinand of Hapsburg and John Zapolyai, the two kings of Hungary, conclude the peace of Grosswardein." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1803", "text": "Chief Justice John Marshall, by refusing to rule on the case of Marbury vs. Madison, asserts the authority of the judicial branch." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1813", "text": "Off Guiana, the American sloop Hornet sinks the British sloop Peacock." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1821", "text": "Mexico gains independence from Spain." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1836", "text": "Some 3,000 Mexicans launch an assault on the Alamo with its 182 Texan defenders." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1895", "text": "The Cuban War of Independence begins." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1908", "text": "Japan officially agrees to restrict emigration to the U.S." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1912", "text": "Italy bombs Beirut in the first act of war against the Ottoman Empire." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1912", "text": "The Jewish organization Hadassah is founded in New York City." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1914", "text": "Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain dies." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1916", "text": "A film version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea opens in New York." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1921", "text": "Herbert Hoover becomes Secretary of Commerce." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1928", "text": "The New Gallery of New York exhibits works of Archibald Motley, its first show to feature a black artist." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1944", "text": "Merrill’s Marauders, a specially trained group of American soldiers, begin their ground campaign against Japan into Burma." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1945", "text": "U.S. forces liberate prisoners of war in the Los Baños Prison in the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1947", "text": "Franz von Papen is sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for war crimes." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1959", "text": "Khrushchev rejects the Western plan for the Big Four meeting on Germany." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1968", "text": "North Vietnamese troops capture the imperial palace in Hue, South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1972", "text": "Hanoi negotiators walks out of the peace talks in Paris to protest U.S. air raids on North Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"2", "year": "1991", "text": "General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition army, sends in ground forces during the Gulf War." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/25.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1570", "text": "Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1601", "text": "Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1642", "text": "Dutch settlers slaughter lower Hudson Valley Indians in New Netherland, North America, who sought refuge from Mohawk attackers." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1779", "text": "The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1781", "text": "American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1791", "text": "President George Washington sign a bill creating the Bank of the United States." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1804", "text": "Thomas Jefferson is nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1815", "text": "Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1831", "text": "The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1836", "text": "Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1862", "text": "Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant’s advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1865", "text": "General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1904", "text": "J.M. Synge’s play Riders to the Sea opens in Dublin." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1910", "text": "The Dalai Lama flees from the Chinese and takes refuge in India." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1919", "text": "Oregon introduces the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1913", "text": "The 16th Amendment to the constitution is adopted, setting the legal basis for the income tax." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1926", "text": "Poland demands a permanent seat on the League of Nations council." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1928", "text": "Bell Labs introduces a new device to end the fluttering of the television image." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1943", "text": "U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, where they had been defeated five days before." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1944", "text": "U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1952", "text": "French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1956", "text": "Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the \"cult of the individual.\"" },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"2", "year": "1976", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban the hiring of illegal aliens." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/26.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "364", "text" : "On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1154", "text": "William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1790", "text": "As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1815", "text": "Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1848", "text": "Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1871", "text": "France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1901", "text": "Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1914", "text": "Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1916", "text": "General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1917", "text": "President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1924", "text": "U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1933", "text": "Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1936", "text": "Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1941", "text": "British take the Somali capital in East Africa." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1943", "text": "U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1945", "text": "Syria declares war on Germany and Japan." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1951", "text": "The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1964", "text": "Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1965", "text": "Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1968", "text": "Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1970", "text": "Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1972", "text": "Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1973", "text": "A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1990", "text": "Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"2", "year": "1993", "text": "A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/27.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "425",  "text":  "Theodosius effectively founds a university in Constantinople." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1531", "text": "German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1700", "text": "The Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1814", "text": "Napoleon’s Marshal Nicholas Oudinot is pushed back at Barsur-Aube by the Emperor’s allied enemies shortly before his abdication." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1827", "text": "The first Mardi-Gras celebration is held in New Orleans." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1864", "text": "The first Union prisoners arrive at Andersonville Prison in Georgia." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1865", "text": "Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1905", "text": "The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1908", "text": "The forty-sixth star is added to the U.S. flag, signifying Oklahoma’s admission to statehood." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1920", "text": "The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1925", "text": "Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1933", "text": "The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1939", "text": "The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1942", "text": "British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1953", "text": "F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1962", "text": "South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1963", "text": "The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1969", "text": "Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon’s arrival in Rome." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1973", "text": "U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1988", "text": "Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"2", "year": "1991", "text": "Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/28.json

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1066", "text": "Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in England, opens its doors." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1574", "text": "On the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, two Englishmen and an Irishman are burnt for heresy." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1610", "text": "Thomas West is appointed governor of Virginia." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1704", "text": "Indians attack Deerfield, Mass. killing 40 and kidnapping 100." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1847", "text": "Colonel Alexander Doniphan and his ragtag Missouri Mounted Volunteers ride to victory at the Battle of Sacramento, during the Mexican War." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1861", "text": "The territory of Colorado is established." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1900", "text": "After a 119-day siege by the Boers, the surrounded British troops in Ladysmith, South Africa, are relieved." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1863", "text": "Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Georgia." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1916", "text": "Haiti becomes the first U.S. protectorate." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1924", "text": "U.S. troops are sent to Honduras to protect American interests during an election conflict." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1936", "text": "The Japanese Army restores order in Tokyo and arrests officers involved in a coup." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1945", "text": "U.S. tanks break the natural defense line west of the Rhine and cross the Erft River." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1946", "text": "The U.S. Army declares that it will use V-2 rocket to test radar as an atomic rocket defense system." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1953", "text": "Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia sign a 5-year defense pact in Ankara." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1967", "text": "In Mississippi, 19 are indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1969", "text": "A Los Angeles court refuses Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s request to be executed." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1971", "text": "The male electorate in Lichtenstein refuses to give voting rights to women." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"2", "year": "1994", "text": "U.S. warplanes shoot down four Serb aircraft over Bosnia in the first NATO use of force in the troubled area." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "45 BC", "text": "The first Leap Day is recognized by proclamation of Julius Caesar. Under the old Roman calendar, the last day of February was the last day of the year." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1692", "text": "Sarah Goode and Tituba are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, sparking the hysteria that started the Salem Witch Trials." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1784", "text": "The Marquis de Sade is transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1856", "text": "Hostilities in Russo-Turkish war cease." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1864", "text": "Union Grig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick splits his forces at the Rapidan River ordering Col. Ulric Dahlgren to lead 500 men his men to Goochland Court House, while the remainder followed Kilpatrick in his raid on Richmond." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1864", "text": "Lt. William B. Cushing leads a landing party from the USS Monticello to Smithville, NC, in an attempt to capture Confederate Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert, only to discover that Hebert and his men had already moved on Wilmington." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1868", "text": "British Prime Minister Benjamin Disreali forms his first cabinet." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1940", "text": "Hattie McDaniel is first African American to win an Academy Award–best supporting actress–for her performance in Gone With The Wind." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1944", "text": "US forces catch Japanese troops off-guard and easily take control of the Admiralty Islands in Papua New Guinea." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1944", "text": "Dorothy Vredenburgh accepts an appointment by the Democratic National Committee becoming the first woman secretary of a national political party in the U.S." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1952", "text": "The first pedestrian \"Walk/Don’t Walk\" signs are installed at 44th Street and Broadway at Times Square." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1956", "text": "President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces he will seek second term." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1964", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the Lockheed A-11 jet fighter." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1968", "text": "Jocelyn Burnell, of Cambridge University, discovers first pulsar." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1968", "text": "The Beatles win a Grammy Award for their album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1972", "text": "Henry \"Hank\" Aaron becomes first baseball player to sign a baseball contract for $200,000 a year." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"2", "year": "1988", "text": "A Nazi document is discovered that implicates participation of Austrian president and former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1377",
+            "text":"Mass execution of population (between 2,500 and 5,000) of Cesena, Italy, by Breton troops of Giovanni Acuto under the command of Robert, Cardinal of Geneva, acting as the legate of Pope Gregory XI"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1451",
+            "text":"Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1488",
+            "text":"Bartolomeu Dias discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1509",
+            "text":"The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1576",
+            "text":"Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1591",
+            "text":"German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1653",
+            "text":"Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1660",
+            "text":"General Monck's army reaches London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1690",
+            "text":"1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1740",
+            "text":"Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1743",
+            "text":"Philadelphia establishes a \"pesthouse\" to quarantine immigrants"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1752",
+            "text":"Dutch States-General forbids export of windmills"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1781",
+            "text":"Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1783",
+            "text":"Spain recognizes US independence"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/4.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"211",
+            "text":"Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"960",
+            "text":"The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1194",
+            "text":"100,000 ransom is paid for Richard I, King of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1454",
+            "text":"In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1508",
+            "text":"Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1586",
+            "text":"Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor-general of the States General of the United Provinces (Netherlands)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1600",
+            "text":"Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for first time near Prague"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1620",
+            "text":"Prince Bethlen Gabor of Hungary signs peace with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1657",
+            "text":"Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, grants residency to Luis Caravajal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"4",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1697",
+            "text":"Three Dutch East India Company ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/5.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"816",
+            "text":"Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1428",
+            "text":"King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1488",
+            "text":"Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1512",
+            "text":"French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1556",
+            "text":"Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1572",
+            "text":"Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1576",
+            "text":"Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1597",
+            "text":"A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1631",
+            "text":"Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1644",
+            "text":"1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1649",
+            "text":"Prince of Wales proclaimed King Charles II of Great Britian by Covenanter Parliament of Scotland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1663",
+            "text":"Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1679",
+            "text":"German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"5",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1736",
+            "text":"Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]