facts_by_date 1.0.0

data/data/5/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1607", "text": "English colonists land near the James River in Virginia." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1648", "text": "Margaret Jones of Plymouth is found guilty of witchcraft and is sentenced to be hanged." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1779", "text": "The War of Bavarian Succession ends." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1846", "text": "The United States declares war on Mexico after fighting has already begun." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1861", "text": "Britain declares its neutrality in the American Civil War." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "The Battle of Resaca commences as Union General Sherman fights towards Atlanta." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1888", "text": "Slavery is abolished in Brazil." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1912", "text": "The Royal Flying Corps is established in England." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1913", "text": "Igor Sikorsky flies the first four-engine aircraft." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1944", "text": "Allied forces in Italy break through the German Gustav Line into the Liri Valley." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1958", "text": "French troops take control of Algiers." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1968", "text": "Peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam begin in Paris." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"5", "year":"1981", "text": "Pope John Paul II survives an assassination attempt." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1264", "text": "King Henry III is captured by his brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, at the Battle of Lewes." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1509", "text": "At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1610", "text": "French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) is assassinated by François Ravillac, a fanatical monk." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1796", "text": "English physician Edward Jenner gives the first successful smallpox vaccination." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1804", "text": "Explorer William Clark sets off from St. Louis, Missouri." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1853", "text": "Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "Union General Nathanial Banks heads towards Port Hudson along the Mississippi River." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1897", "text": "Guglielmo Marconi sends first communication by wireless telegraph." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1897", "text": "\"Stars and Stripes Forever\" by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1935", "text": "A plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies an independence agreement." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "Holland surrenders to Germany." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1948", "text": "Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1969", "text": "Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1973", "text": "The U.S. space station Skylab is launched." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"5", "year":"1991", "text": "In South Africa, Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison for her part in the kidnapping and beating of three black youths and the death of a fourth." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/15.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"756", "text": "Abd-al-Rahman is proclaimed emir of Cordoba, Spain." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1213", "text": "King John submits to the Pope, offering to make England and Ireland papal fiefs. Pope Innocent III lifts the interdict of 1208." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1602", "text": "English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1614", "text": "An aristocratic uprising in France ends with treaty of St. Menehould." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1618", "text": "Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1702", "text": "The War of Spanish Succession begins." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1730", "text": "Following the resignation of Lord Townshend, Robert Walpole becomes the sole minister in the English cabinet." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1768", "text": "By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchases Corsica from Genoa." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1795", "text": "Napoleon enters the Lombardian capital of Milan in triumph." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1820", "text": "The U.S. Congress designates the slave trade a form of piracy." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1849", "text": "Neapolitan troops enter Palermo, Sicily." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1862", "text": "The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "At the Battle of New Market, Virginia Military Institute cadets repel a Union attack." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1886", "text": "Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass., where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1916", "text": "U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1918", "text": "Pfc. Henry Johnson and Pfc. Needham Roberts receive the Croix de Guerre for their services in World War I. They are the first Americans to win France’s highest military medal." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1930", "text": "Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "The United States begins rationing gasoline." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1958", "text": "Sputnik III is launched by the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1963", "text": "The last Project Mercury space flight, carrying Gordon Cooper, is launched." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1968", "text": "U.S. Marines relieve army troops in Nhi Ha, South Vietnam after a fourteen-day battle." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1972", "text": "George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1975", "text": "The merchant ship Mayaguez is recaptured from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"5", "year":"1988", "text": "Soviets forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/16.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1770", "text": "Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "At the Battle of Champion’s Hill, Union General Ulysess S. Grant repulses the Confederates, driving them into Vicksburg." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1868", "text": "President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during Senate impeachment, by one vote, cast by Edmund G. Ross." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1879", "text": "The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England sets up the Afghan state." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1920", "text": "Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1928", "text": "The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1943", "text": "A specially trained and equipped Royal Air Force squadron destroys two river dams in Germany." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1951", "text": "Chinese Communist Forces launch second step, fifth-phase offensive and gain up to 20 miles of territory." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1960", "text": "A Big Four summit in Paris collapses because of the American U-2 spy plane affair." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"5", "year":"1963", "text": "After 22 Earth orbits, Gordon Cooper returns to Earth, ending the last mission of Project Mercury." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/17.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1540", "text": "Afgan chief Sher Khan defeats Mongul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1630", "text": "Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi sees the belts on Jupiter’s surface." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1681", "text": "Louis XIV sends and expedition to aid James II in Ireland. As a result, England declares war on France." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1756", "text": "Britain declares war on France." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1792", "text": "Merchants form the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1814", "text": "Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "Union General Ulysses Grant continues his push towards Vicksburg at the Battle of the Big Black River Bridge." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1875", "text": "The first Kentucky Derby is run in Louisville." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1881", "text": "Frederick Douglass is appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins the invasion of France." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1954", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules for school integration in Brown v. Board of Education." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1973", "text": "The Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"5", "year":"1987", "text": "In the Persian Gulf the American guided missile frigate USS Stark is struck by 2 Exocet missiles fired by an Iraqi aircraft; only one detonates, but 37 sailors are killed and 21 are wounded. Whether the launch was deliberate or a mistake is still debated." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/18.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"526	", "text": "St. John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1643", "text": "Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, is granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king’s will." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1652", "text": "A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1792", "text": "Russian troops invade Poland." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1802", "text": "Britain declares war on France." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1804", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1828", "text": "The Battle of Las Piedras, between Uruguay and Brazil, ends." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1860", "text": "Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "The fighting at Spotsylvania in Virginia, reaches its peak at the Bloody Angle." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1896", "text": "The Supreme Court’s decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the \"separate but equal\" policy in the United States." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1904", "text": "Brigand Raizuli kidnaps American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1917", "text": "The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1931", "text": "Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashes his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He is picked up seven hours later by a passing ship." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1933", "text": "President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1944", "text": "The Allies finally capture Monte Cassino in Italy." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1951", "text": "The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1969", "text": "Two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assault Hill 937 but cannot reach the top because of muddy conditions." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1974", "text": "India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"5", "year":"1980", "text": "After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"715", "text": "St. Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1535", "text": "French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for North America." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1536", "text": "Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, is beheaded on Tower Green." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1568", "text": "Defeated by the Protestants, Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England where Queen Elizabeth imprisons her." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1588", "text": "The Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon, Spain." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1608", "text": "The Protestant states form the Evangelical Union of Lutherans and Calvinists." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1635", "text": "Cardinal Richelieu of France intervenes in the great conflict in Europe by declaring war on the Hapsburgs in Spain." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1643", "text": "The French army defeats a Spanish army at Rocroi, France." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1780", "text": "Near total darkness descends on New England at noon. No explanation is found." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1856", "text": "Senator Charles Sumner speaks out against slavery." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1858", "text": "A pro-slavery band led by Charles Hameton executes unarmed Free State men near Marais des Cygnes on the Kansas-Missouri border." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s first attack on Vicksburg is repulsed." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "The Union and Confederate armies launch their last attacks against each other at Spotsylvania, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1921", "text": "Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1935", "text": "The National Football League adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1964", "text": "U.S. diplomats find at least 40 microphones planted in the American embassy in Moscow." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"5", "year":"1967", "text": "U.S. planes bomb Hanoi for the first time." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/2.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1670", "text": "The Hudson Bay Company is founded." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1598", "text": "Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain’s interference in France." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1668", "text": "Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution in France." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1776", "text": "France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1797", "text": "A mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1798", "text": "The black General Toussaint L’ouverture forces British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1808", "text": "The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1813", "text": "Napoleon defeats a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "Stonewall Jackson smashes Hooker’s flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1865", "text": "President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President" },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1885", "text": "King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1890", "text": "The Territory of Oklahoma is created." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1919", "text": "The first U.S. air passenger service starts." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1923", "text": "Lieutenants Okaley Kelly and John Macready take off from New York for the West Coast on what will become the first successful nonstop transcontinental flight." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1945", "text": "Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1946", "text": "Prisoners revolt at California’s Alcatraz prison." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1968", "text": "The U.S. Army attacks Nhi Ha in South Vietnam and begins a fourteen-day battle to wrestle it away from Vietnamese Communists." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"5", "year":"1970", "text": "Student anti-war protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/20.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"325", "text": "Ecumenical council is inaugurated by Emperor Constantine in Nicea." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1303", "text": "A peace treaty is signed between England and France." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1347", "text": "Cola di Rienzo takes the title of tribune in Rome." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1520", "text": "Hernando Cortes defeats Spanish troops sent against him in Mexico." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1690", "text": "England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1674", "text": "John Sobieski becomes Poland’s first king." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1774", "text": "Parliament passes the Coercive Acts to punish the colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior. The acts close the port of Boston." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1775", "text": "North Carolina becomes the first colony to declare its independence." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1784", "text": "The Peace of Versailles ends a war between France, England, and Holland." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1799", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte orders a withdrawal from his siege of St. Jean d’Acre in Egypt." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1859", "text": "A force of Austrians collide with Piedmontese cavalry at the village of Montebello, in northern Italy." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1861", "text": "North Carolina becomes the last state to secede from the Union." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1862", "text": "President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act, providing 250 million acres of free land to settlers in the West." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1874", "text": "Levi Strauss begins marketing blue jeans with copper rivets." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1902", "text": "The U.S. military occupation of Cuba ends." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1927", "text": "Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York for Paris." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1930", "text": "The first airplane is catapulted from a dirigible." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1932", "text": "Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Ireland, to become the first woman fly solo across the Atlantic." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1939", "text": "Pan American Airways starts the first regular passenger service across the Atlantic." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "Germany invades Crete by air." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "Japan completes the conquest of Burma." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1951", "text": "During the Korean War, U.S. Air Force Captain James Jabara becomes the first jet air ace in history." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "A white mob attacks civil rights activists in Montgomery, Alabama." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1969", "text": "In South Vietnam, troops of the 101st Airborne Division reach the top of Hill 937 after nine days of fighting entrenched North Vietnamese forces." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"5", "year":"1970", "text": "100,000 people march in New York, supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/21.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"996", "text": "Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned the Roman Emperor." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1471", "text": "King Henry VI is killed in the Tower of London. Edward IV takes the throne." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1506", "text": "Christopher Columbus dies." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1536", "text": "The Reformation is officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1620", "text": "Present-day Martha’s Vineyard is first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1790", "text": "Paris is divided into 48 zones." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1832", "text": "The Democratic party holds its first national convention." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1856", "text": "Lawrence, Kansas is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1881", "text": "The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1927", "text": "Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "British forces attack German General Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1951", "text": "The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1970", "text": "The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"5", "year":"1991", "text": "In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/22.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1246", "text": "Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1455", "text": "King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1804", "text": "The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1856", "text": "U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner’s earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks’ cousin, Senator Andrew Butler." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1868", "text": "The \"Great Train Robbery\" takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train’s safe in Indiana." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1872", "text": "The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1882", "text": "The United States formally recognizes Korea." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1908", "text": "The Wright brothers register their flying machine for a U.S. patent." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1939", "text": "Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a \"Pact of Steel\" forming the Axis powers." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1947", "text": "The Truman Doctrine brings aid to Turkey and Greece." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1967", "text": "The children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood premiers." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1972", "text": "Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1985", "text": "Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1990", "text": "In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merge to become a single state." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"1992", "text": "Johnny Carson’s final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program’s host." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"2004", "text": "An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"2004", "text": "Farenheit 9-11, directed by Michael Moore, becomes the first documentary ever to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"2010", "text": "Following a 200-year search for the tomb of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus his remains are reburied in Frombork Cathedral" },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"2011", "text": "An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"5", "year":"2015", "text": "The Republic of Ireland, long known as a conservative, predominantly Catholic country, becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1430", "text": "Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1533", "text": "Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1618", "text": "The Thirty Years War begins." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1701", "text": "Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1785", "text": "Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1788", "text": "South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1861", "text": "Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate General \"Stonewall\" Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1900", "text": "Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1901", "text": "American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1915", "text": "Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1934", "text": "Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1945", "text": "Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1949", "text": "The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"5", "year":"1960", "text": "Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1543", "text": "Nicolaus Copernicus publishes proof of a sun-centered solar system. He dies just after publication." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1607", "text": "Captain Christopher Newport and 105 followers found the colony of Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the coast of Virginia." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1610", "text": "Sir Thomas Gates institutes \"laws divine moral and marshal, \" a harsh civil code for Jamestown." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1624", "text": "After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia’s charter is revoked and it becomes a royal colony." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1689", "text": "English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration, protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are specifically excluded from exemption." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1738", "text": "The Methodist Church is established." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1764", "text": "Boston lawyer James Otis denounces \"taxation without representation,\" calling for the colonies to unite in opposition to Britain’s new tax measures." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1798", "text": "Believing that a French invasion of Ireland is imminent, Irish nationalists rise up against the British occupation." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1844", "text": "Samuel Morse taps out the first telegraph message." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1846", "text": "General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1861", "text": "General Benjamin Butler declares slaves to be the contraband of war." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "Bushwackers led by Captain William Marchbanks attack a Federal militia party in Nevada, Missouri." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1878", "text": "The first American bicycle race is held in Boston." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1930", "text": "Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly from England to Australia." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "The British battleship Hood is sunk by the German battleship Bismarck. There are only three survivors." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1951", "text": "Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants." },
+         { "day":"24", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "Civil rights activists are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1085", "text": "Alfonso VI takes Toledo, Spain from the Muslims." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1787", "text": "The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with George Washington presiding." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1810", "text": "Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1851", "text": "Jose Justo de Urquiza of Argentina leads a rebellion against Juan Manuel de Rosas, his former ally." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1911", "text": "Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, resigns his office." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1914", "text": "The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1925", "text": "John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1935", "text": "Jesse Owens sets six world records in less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1946", "text": "Jordan gains independence from Britain." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"5", "year":"1953", "text": "The first atomic cannon is fired in Nevada." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"17", "text": "Germanicus of Rome celebrates his victory over the Germans." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1328", "text": "William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1647", "text": "A new law bans Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts. The penalty is banishment or death for a second offense." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1670", "text": "Charles II and Louis XIV sign a secret treaty in Dover, England, ending hostilities between England and France." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1691", "text": "Jacob Leiser, leader of the popular uprising in support of William and Mary’s succession to the throne, is executed for treason." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1736", "text": "British and Chickasaw forces defeat the French at the Battle of Ackia." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1831", "text": "The Russians defeat the Poles at the Battle of Ostrolenska." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1835", "text": "A resolution is passed in the U.S. Congress stating that Congress has no authority over state slavery laws." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1864", "text": "The territory of Montana is organized." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1865", "text": "The last Confederate army surrenders in Shreveport, Louisiana." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1868", "text": "President Andrew Johnson is aquitted of all charges of impeachment." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1896", "text": "The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, is crowned." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1938", "text": "The House Committee on Un-American Activities begins its work of searching for subversives in the United States." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk begins." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1946", "text": "A patent is filed in the United States for the H-bomb." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1958", "text": "Union Square, San Francisco, becomes a state historical landmark." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "The civil rights activist group, Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee, is established in Atlanta." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "A U.S. Air Force bomber flies across the Atlantic in a record of just over three hours." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1969", "text": "Apollo 10 returns to Earth." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"5", "year":"1977", "text": "The movie Star Wars debuts." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1564", "text": "John Calvin, one of the dominant figures of the Protestant Reformation, dies in Geneva." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1647", "text": "Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1668", "text": "Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1813", "text": "Americans capture Fort George, Canada." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1907", "text": "The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1919", "text": "A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1929", "text": "Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Murrow." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1935", "text": "The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1937", "text": "San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1941", "text": "The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "German General Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1944", "text": "American General MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1960", "text": "A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1969", "text": "Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1972", "text": "President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement." },
+         { "day":"27", "month":"5", "year":"1999", "text": "The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"585 BC", "text": "A solar eclipse interrupts a battle outside of Sardis in western Turkey between Medes and Lydians. The battle ends in a draw." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1805", "text": "Napoleon is crowned in Milan, Italy." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1830", "text": "Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to the western Prairie." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1863", "text": "The 54th Massachusetts, a regiment of African-American recruits, leaves Boston, headed for Hilton Head, South Carolina." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1859", "text": "The French army launches a flanking attack on the Austrian army in Northern France." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1871", "text": "The Paris commune is suppressed by troops from Versailles." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1900", "text": "Britain annexes the Orange Free State in South Africa." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1940", "text": "Belgium surrenders to Germany." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1953", "text": "Melody, the first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, premiers." },
+         { "day":"28", "month":"5", "year":"1961", "text": "Amnesty International, a human rights organization, is founded." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/5/29.json

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+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1453", "text": "Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1660", "text": "Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1721", "text": "South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1790", "text": "Rhode Island becomes last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1848", "text": "Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1849", "text": "A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1862", "text": "Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1911", "text": "The first running of the Indianapolis 500." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1913", "text": "The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1916", "text": "U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1922", "text": "Ecuador becomes independent." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1922", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1942", "text": "The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1951", "text": "C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single engine plane." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1953", "text": "Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1974", "text": "President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"5", "year":"1990", "text": "Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia." }
+      ]
+   }
+]