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data/data/1/28.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1077",
+            "text":"German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman Emperor Pope Gregory VII after his penitent Walk to Canossa."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1099",
+            "text":"1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1262",
+            "text":"Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north westerly storm"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1393",
+            "text":"Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1495",
+            "text":"Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Llançol i de Borgia) gives his son Cesare as hostage to Charles VIII of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms in Worms Germany (until May 25). Produced 'Edit of Worms' dennoucing Martin Luther"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1547",
+            "text":"9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1561",
+            "text":"By Edict of Orleans French persecution of Huguenots is suspended"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1573",
+            "text":"Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1581",
+            "text":"James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1624",
+            "text":"Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1689",
+            "text":"English parliament resolved that the throne is vacant"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1724",
+            "text":"The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/29.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"904",
+            "text":"Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1523",
+            "text":"Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1587",
+            "text":"Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1595",
+            "text":"William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed. First published early 1597"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1676",
+            "text":"Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1728",
+            "text":"John Gays' \"Beggar's Opera\" premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1732",
+            "text":"Paris churchyard of Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1781",
+            "text":"Mozart's opera \"Idomeneo\" premieres, Munich"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1785",
+            "text":"In a surprising announcement, John Hancock resigns as Governor of Massachusetts, allegedly due to his failing health"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1802",
+            "text":"John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1834",
+            "text":"President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/3.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"236 ",
+            "text":"St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"269 ",
+            "text":"St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"936 ",
+            "text":"Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1338 ",
+            "text":"Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1407 ",
+            "text":"Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1431 ",
+            "text":"Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1496 ",
+            "text":"Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1521 ",
+            "text":"Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1638 ",
+            "text":"Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of \"Hostage rights of Aemstel\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1638 ",
+            "text":"Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1667 ",
+            "text":"Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1746 ",
+            "text":"Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1749 ",
+            "text":"Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1750 ",
+            "text":"Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1752 ",
+            "text":"East Indies invasion \"Geldermalsen\" leaves at Malacca: 92 killed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1777 ",
+            "text":"General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, NJ"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1077",
+            "text":"Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1349",
+            "text":"Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1349",
+            "text":"Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1467",
+            "text":"Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1487",
+            "text":"Bell chimes invented"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1522",
+            "text":"Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1544",
+            "text":"Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1592",
+            "text":"Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1647",
+            "text":"Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1648",
+            "text":"Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years War"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1661",
+            "text":"Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1667",
+            "text":"Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1713",
+            "text":"England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1774",
+            "text":"Captain Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record)"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/1/31.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"314",
+            "text":"St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"876",
+            "text":"Charles becomes king of Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1504",
+            "text":"By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1531",
+            "text":"Kings Ferdinand of Austria/Janos Zapolyai of Hungary accept each other"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1578",
+            "text":"Battle of Gembloers (Gembloux); Dutch and English forces overcame the Spanish"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1596",
+            "text":"Catholic League disbanded"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1609",
+            "text":"Wisselbank of Amsterdam established"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1627",
+            "text":"Spanish government goes bankrupt"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1675",
+            "text":"Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1679",
+            "text":"Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera \"Bellerophon\" premieres in Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1696",
+            "text":"Revolt by undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1747",
+            "text":"The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1779",
+            "text":"Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1804",
+            "text":"British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1814",
+            "text":"Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1817",
+            "text":"Franz Grillparzer's \"Die Ahnfrau\" premieres in Vienna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1846",
+            "text":"After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1849",
+            "text":"Corn Laws abolished in Britain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1851",
+            "text":"Gail Borden announces invention of condensed milk"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1851",
+            "text":"SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]