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data/data/4/6.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"46 BC",
+            "text":"Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"402",
+            "text":"Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"610",
+            "text":"Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"774",
+            "text":"Charles the Great (Charlemagne) confirmed the gift to the Pope of the territories belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy-sur-Loire in 753"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1106",
+            "text":"Fire in Venice"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1320",
+            "text":"The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1327",
+            "text":"Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1362",
+            "text":"Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1385",
+            "text":"John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1516",
+            "text":"A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1634",
+            "text":"Heeren XIX asks \"to secure Eylands Curacao\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1652",
+            "text":"Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under John of Riebeeck"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/7.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"30",
+            "text":"Scholars' estimate of Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"451",
+            "text":"Attila's Huns plunder Metz"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"529",
+            "text":"First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1118",
+            "text":"Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1348",
+            "text":"Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1456",
+            "text":"Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1498",
+            "text":"Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1509",
+            "text":"France declares war on Venice"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1541",
+            "text":"Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1584",
+            "text":"Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1625",
+            "text":"Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1645",
+            "text":"Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1652",
+            "text":"Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1655",
+            "text":"Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/8.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"217",
+            "text":"Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1093",
+            "text":"The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1139",
+            "text":"Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1149",
+            "text":"Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1195",
+            "text":"Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1271",
+            "text":"In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers (a fortress near Homs)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1341",
+            "text":"Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1378",
+            "text":"Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1455",
+            "text":"Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1500",
+            "text":"Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1730",
+            "text":"1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, \"Shearith Israel, NYC\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1759",
+            "text":"British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1766",
+            "text":"1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/4/9.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"193",
+            "text":"Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"475",
+            "text":"Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"715",
+            "text":"Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1241",
+            "text":"Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1388",
+            "text":"Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1413",
+            "text":"Henry V is crowned King of England."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1440",
+            "text":"Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1454",
+            "text":"Milan and Venice sign peace of Lodi"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1474",
+            "text":"Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1483",
+            "text":"Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England. He was never crowned, and disappeared, presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the \"Princes in the Tower\")"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1538",
+            "text":"Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1555",
+            "text":"Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"4",
+            "year":"1609",
+            "text":"Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/1.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"408", "text": "Theodosius II succeeds to the throne of Constantinople." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1308", "text": "King Albert is murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1486", "text": "Christopher Columbus convinces Queen Isabella to fund expedition to the West Indies." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1805", "text": "The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "The Battle of Chancellorsville begins as Union Gen. Joe Hooker starts his three-pronged attack against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1867", "text": "Reconstruction in the South begins with black voter registration." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1877", "text": "President Ruthoford B. Hayes withdraws all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1898", "text": "The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1915", "text": "The luxury liner Lusitania leaves New York Harbor for a voyage to Europe." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1927", "text": "Adolf Hitler holds his first Nazi meeting in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1931", "text": "The Empire State Building opens in New York." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1934", "text": "The Philippine legislature accepts a U.S. proposal for independence." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1937", "text": "President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "The film Citizen Kane–directed and starring Orson Welles–opens in New York." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1944", "text": "The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, makes its first flight." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1945", "text": "Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escapes the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advances on Berlin." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1948", "text": "North Korea is established." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1950", "text": "Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called Annie Allen." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1960", "text": "Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1968", "text": "In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1970", "text": "Students from Kent State University riot in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"1986", "text": "The Tass News Agency reports the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"5", "year":"2011", "text": "Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/10.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1285", "text": "Philip III of Spain is succeeded by Philip IV (\"the Fair\")." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1503", "text": "Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1676", "text": "Bacon’s Rebellion begins in the New World." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1773", "text": "To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1774", "text": "Louis XVI succeeds his father Louis XV as King of France." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1775", "text": "American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1794", "text": "Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, is beheaded." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1796", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1840", "text": "Mormon leader Joseph Smith moves his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they experienced in Missouri." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1857", "text": "The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "General Thomas \"Stonewall\" Jackson succumbs to illness and wounds received during the Battle of Chancellorsville." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1865", "text": "Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1869", "text": "The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1859", "text": "French emperor Napoleon III leaves Paris to join his troops preparing to battle the Austrian army in Northern Italy." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1872", "text": "Victoria Woodhull becomes first woman nominated for U.S. president." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1917", "text": "Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1924", "text": "J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1928", "text": "WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1933", "text": "Nazis begin burning books by \"unGerman\" writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France’s \"impenetrable\" Maginot Line." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "England’s House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1960", "text": "The USS Nautilus completes first circumnavigation of globe underwater." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"5", "year":"1994", "text": "Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa’s first black president." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/11.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1573", "text": "Henry of Anjou becomes the first elected king of Poland." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1689", "text": "French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1690", "text": "In the first major engagement of King William’s War, British troops from Massachusetts seize Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) from the French." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1745", "text": "French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1792", "text": "The Columbia River is discovered by Captain Robert Gray." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1812", "text": "British prime Minster Spencer Perceval is shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1857", "text": "Indian mutineers seize Delhi." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1858", "text": "Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1860", "text": "Giuseppe Garibaldi lands at Marsala, Sicily." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1960", "text": "Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"5", "year":"1967", "text": "The siege of Khe Sanh ends, the base is still in American hands." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"254", "text": "St. Stephen I begins his reign as Catholic Pope." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1588", "text": "King Henry III flees Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly enters the city." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1641", "text": "The chief advisor to Charles I, Thomas Wentworth, is beheaded in the Tower of London" },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1780", "text": "Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1851", "text": "The Tule River War ends." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "With a victory at the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi, Union General Ulysses S. Grant closes in on Vicksburg." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "Union General Benjamin Butler attacks Drewry’s Bluff on the James River." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1865", "text": "The last land battle of the Civil war occurs at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1881", "text": "Tunisia, in North Africa become a French protectorate." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1885", "text": "In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against the Canadian government." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1926", "text": "The Airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1932", "text": "The body of Charles Lindbergh’s baby is found." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1935", "text": "Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by \"Bill W.,\" a stockbroker, and "Dr. Bob S.," a heart surgeon." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Muese River." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "The Soviet Army launches its first major offensive of the war, taking Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1943", "text": "Axis forces in North Africa surrender." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1949", "text": "The Berlin Blockade ends." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1969", "text": "Viet Cong sappers try unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"5", "year":"1975", "text": "The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez is seized by Cambodian forces." }
+      ]
+   }
+]