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data/data/4/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"607",
+            "text":"Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1012",
+            "text":"Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1451",
+            "text":"Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1524",
+            "text":"Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1529",
+            "text":"2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1539",
+            "text":"Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1552",
+            "text":"Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1591",
+            "text":"Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1619",
+            "text":"Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1713",
+            "text":"Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1770",
+            "text":"Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1770",
+            "text":"British explorer Captain James Cook 1st sights Australia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1774",
+            "text":"CW Glucks opera \"Iphigenia in Aulis\" premieres in Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1775",
+            "text":"Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"19",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1782",
+            "text":"John Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American embassy."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/2.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"999",
+            "text":"Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1416",
+            "text":"Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1453",
+            "text":"Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1513",
+            "text":"Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1550",
+            "text":"Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1559",
+            "text":"England & France sign 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1559",
+            "text":"Genoa, Italy, expels Jews"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1590",
+            "text":"States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1595",
+            "text":"Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1645",
+            "text":"Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1745",
+            "text":"Austria & Bavaria sign peace"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1755",
+            "text":"Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":"The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"2",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1800",
+            "text":"1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/20.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"295",
+            "text":"8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"850",
+            "text":"Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1139",
+            "text":"2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1505",
+            "text":"Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1551",
+            "text":"John Dudley becomes Earl Marshal of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1611",
+            "text":"First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London recorded by Simon Forman"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1650",
+            "text":"Dutch East India Company (VOC) management sets new guidelines"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1653",
+            "text":"Cromwell routes English parliament to house"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1657",
+            "text":"Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1689",
+            "text":"The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1702",
+            "text":"Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1715",
+            "text":"Nicholas Rowe's \"Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey\" premieres in London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"20",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1736",
+            "text":"French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis begins his expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of latitude and prove the shape of the earth, he is joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Claude Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/21.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"753 BC",
+            "text":"Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"43 BC",
+            "text":"Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"953",
+            "text":"Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1420",
+            "text":"Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1453",
+            "text":"Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1509",
+            "text":"Henry VIII crowned King of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1526",
+            "text":"Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi-rise of the Mughal Empire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1536",
+            "text":"Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne Boleyn's downfall while feigning illness"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1572",
+            "text":"France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1600",
+            "text":"1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1649",
+            "text":"Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1654",
+            "text":"England & Sweden sign trade agreement"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"21",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1689",
+            "text":"William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/22.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"296",
+            "text":"St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"536",
+            "text":"St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1056",
+            "text":"Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1073",
+            "text":"Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1145",
+            "text":"19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1164",
+            "text":"Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1370",
+            "text":"Building begins of Bastille fortress in Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1500",
+            "text":"Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"French King Francois I declares war on Spain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1526",
+            "text":"1st slave revolt occurs in SC"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1529",
+            "text":"Treaty of Saragosa: Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1648",
+            "text":"English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1659",
+            "text":"Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1671",
+            "text":"King Charles II sits in on English parliament"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1674",
+            "text":"Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1676",
+            "text":"Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1677",
+            "text":"Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"22",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1692",
+            "text":"Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]