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data/data/1/9.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"475 ",
+            "text":"Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1296 ",
+            "text":"Earl Floris V signs accord with French King"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1317 ",
+            "text":"Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1349 ",
+            "text":"700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1431 ",
+            "text":"Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1464 ",
+            "text":"1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1493 ",
+            "text":"1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1522 ",
+            "text":"Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1558 ",
+            "text":"Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1570 ",
+            "text":"Tsar Ivan the Terrible kills 1,000-2,000 residents of Novgorod"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1718 ",
+            "text":"France declares war on Spain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1760 ",
+            "text":"Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1768 ",
+            "text":"Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1788 ",
+            "text":"Connecticut becomes 5th state of the Union"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1792 ",
+            "text":"Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"1",
+            "year":"1793 ",
+            "text":"1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/1.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"79", "text": "The city of Pompeii is buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1512", "text": "Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is exhibited for the first time." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1582", "text": "Maurice of Nassau, the son of William of Orange, becomes the governor of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1755", "text": "A great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, kills over 50,000 people." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1765", "text": "The Stamp Act goes into effect in the British colonies." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 50 year-veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the onset of the Civil War, retires. General George McClellan is appointed general-in-chief of the Union armies." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1866", "text": "Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley (Belle Starr) marries James C. Reed in Collins County, Texas." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1869", "text": "Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "text": "Italian planes perform the first aerial bombing on Tanguira oasis in Libya." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company buys the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1924", "text": "Legendary Oklahoma marshal Bill Tilghman, 71, is gunned down by a drunk in Cromwell, Oklahoma." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini announces the Rome-Berlin axis after Count Ciano’s visit to Germany." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "The Rodeo Cowboy’s Association is founded." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "American troops invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text": "John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of Ebony magazine." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement attempt to assassinate President Harry S Truman." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1951", "text": "Algerian National Liberation Front begins guerrilla warfare against the French." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson calls a halt to bombing in Vietnam, hoping this will lead to progress at the Paris peace talks." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "The Motion Picture Association of America officially introduces its rating system to indicate age-appropriateness of film content." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "Leon Jaworski appointed as new Watergate Special  Prosecutor." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1981", "text": "Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text": "Honda opens a plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text": "Serbia joins the United Nations." }
+      ]                                            
+   }
+]

data/data/11/10.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1493", "text": "Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1556", "text": "The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1647", "text": "All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1775", "text": "U.S. Marine Corps founded." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1782", "text": "In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1871", "text": "Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1879", "text": "Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer—an offense for which he will be courtmartialed." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "text": "President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "text": "The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text": "Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text": "Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "Churchill promises to join the U.S. \"within the hour\" in the event of war with Japan." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1952", "text": "U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1962", "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1969", "text": "The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1971", "text": "Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1972", "text": "Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1975", "text": "The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"1997", "text": "WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a merger, the largest in US history up to that time." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after losing communications with the lander, five months after it began its exploration on the surface of Mars." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"11", "year":"2009", "text": "North Korean and South Korean ships skirmish off Daecheon Island." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/11.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1499", "text": "Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1778", "text": "Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1831", "text": "Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1889", "text": "Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1909", "text": "Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1919", "text": "The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text": "Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1933", "text": "The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text": "Irving Berlin’s \"God Bless America\" is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1940", "text": "Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1953", "text": "The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1966", "text": "The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1970", "text": "U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1987", "text": "An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting \"Irises\" from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1993", "text": "Sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"1999", "text": "House of Lords Act reforming Britain’s House of Lords, given Royal Assent; the act removed the right to hereditary seats (sitting members were permitted to remain)." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"2001", "text": "Journalists Pierre Billaud (France), Johanne Sutton (France) and Voker Handloik (Germany) killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy in which they were traveling." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"2004", "text": "New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Museum, Wellington." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"2004", "text": "Palestine Liberation organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; cause of death has never been conclusively determined." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"2006", "text": "Queen Elizabeth II unveils New Zealand War Memorial in London." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)sets sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1035", "text": "King Canute of Norway dies." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1276", "text": "Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1859", "text": "The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside’s troops at Knoxville." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1867", "text": "Mount Vesuvius erupts." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1903", "text": "The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1927", "text": "Canada is admitted to the League of Nations." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1928", "text": "The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text": "Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. fighters wipe out a Japanese convoy near Leyte, consisting of six destroyers, four transports and 8,000 troops." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text": "Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1951", "text": "The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text": "The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California’s Vandenberg AFB." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1971", "text": "President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1987", "text": "Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow’s Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "Sir Timothy John \"Tim\" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1996", "text": "A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"1997", "text": "Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"2003", "text": "The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"11", "year":"2003", "text": "Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1474", "text": "In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1835", "text": "Texans officially proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1851", "text": "The London-to-Paris telegraph begins operation." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1860", "text": "South Carolina’s legislature calls a special convention to discuss secession from the Union." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1862", "text": "Lewis Carroll writes in his diary, “Began writing the fairy-tale of Alice–I hope to finish it by Christmas.”" },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1878", "text": "New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1897", "text": "The first metal dirigible is flown from Tempelhof Field in Berlin." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1907", "text": "Paul Corno achieves the first helicopter flight." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1914", "text": "The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1927", "text": "New York’s Holland Tunnel officially opens for traffic." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1940", "text": "U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "A German U-boat, the U-81 torpedoes Great Britain’s premier aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal. The ship sinks the next day." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flies to Algeria to conclude an agreement with French Admiral Jean Darlan.." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text": "Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1952", "text": "Harvard’s Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1956", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously strikes down two Alabama laws requiring racial segregation on public buses." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1969", "text": "Anti-war protesters stage a symbolic “March Against Death” in Washington, DC." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1970", "text": "A powerful tropical cyclone strikes the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), causing an estimated half-million deaths in a single night; the Bhola cyclone is regarded as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text": "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1985", "text": "Some 23,000 people die when the Nevado del Ruiz erupts, melting a glacier and causing a massive mudslide that buries Armero, Columbia." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Compact of Free Association: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau—places US troops wrested from Japanese control in WWII—become sovereign nations, associated states of the United States." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Hans-Adam II becomes Prince of Liechtenstein (1989– ) upon the death of his father, Franz Joseph II." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text": "Articles of impeachment passed against Philippine President Joseph Estrada." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"11", "year":"2001", "text": "US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to planned or actual terrorist acts against the US." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1501", "text": "Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1812", "text": "As Napoleon Bonaparte’s army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1851", "text": "Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1882", "text": "Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1908", "text": "Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1910", "text": "Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text": "The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1930", "text": "Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1940", "text": "German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1951", "text": "The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1951", "text": "French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text": "New Orleans integrates two all-white schools." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text": "President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1965", "text": "The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1969", "text": "The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text": "US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text": "Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland’s president in 1990." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1984", "text": "The Space Shuttle Discovery‘s crew rescues a second satellite." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany sign a treaty officially making the Oder-Neisse line the border between their countries." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text": "Budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies forced to operate with skeleton staff." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"2001", "text": "Northern Alliance fighters take control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "First G-20 economic summit convenes, in Washington, DC." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"11", "year":"2012", "text": "Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1315", "text": "Swiss soldiers ambush and slaughter invading Austrians in the battle of Morgarten." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1533", "text": "The explorer Francisco Pizarro enters Cuzco, Peru." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1626", "text": "The Pilgrim Fathers, who have settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1777", "text": "The Articles of Confederation, instituting perpetual union of the United States of America, are adopted by Congress." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1805", "text": "Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their party reach the mouth of the Columbia River, completing their trek to the Pacific." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1806", "text": "Explorer Zebulon Pike discovers the Colorado Peak that bears his name, despite the fact that he didn’t climb it." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text": "Union Major General William T. Sherman’s troops set fires that destroy much of Atlanta’s industrial district prior to beginning Sherman’s March to the Sea." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1881", "text": "The American Federation of Labor is founded." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1909", "text": "M. Metrot takes off in a Voisin biplane from Algiers, making the first manned flight in Africa." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text": "Kerensky flees and Bolsheviks take command in Moscow." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1920", "text": "Forty-one nations open the first League of Nations session in Geneva.." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text": "It is announced that Dr. Alexis Carrel has discovered white corpuscles." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1930", "text": "General strikes and riots paralyze Madrid, Spain." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1937", "text": "Eighteen lawsuits are brought against the Tennessee Valley Authority, calling for its dissolution." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "An American fleet defeats a Japanese naval force in a clash off Guadalcanal." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1946", "text": "The 17th Paris Air Show opens at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees. It is the first show of this kind since World War II." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1952", "text": "Newark Airport in New Jersey reopens after closing earlier in the year because of an increase in accidents." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1957", "text": "Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asserts Soviet superiority in missiles, challenging the United States to a rocket-range shooting match." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text": "The first submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1962", "text": "Cuba threatens to down U.S. planes on reconnaissance flights over its territory." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "Argentina voids all foreign oil contracts." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1965", "text": "In the second day of combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia Drang Valley." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1969", "text": "A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march in Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1976", "text": "A Syrian peace force takes control of Beirut, Lebanon." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1984", "text": "Baby Fae dies 20 days after receiving a baboon heart transplant in Loma Linda, California." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1985", "text": "Anglo-Irish Agreement signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1988", "text": "Palestinian National Council proclaims an independent State of Palestine." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "People’s Republic of Bulgaria replaced by a new republican government." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"11", "year":"2007", "text": "Cyclone Sidr strikes Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/16.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1798", "text": "British seamen board the U.S. frigate Baltimore and impress a number of crewmen as alleged deserters, a practice that contributed to the War of 1812." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1813", "text": "The British announce a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coast open to shipping." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1821", "text": "Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, N.M., on the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1846", "text": "General Zachary Taylor takes Saltillo, Mexico." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text": "Union General William T. Sherman departs Atlanta and begins his \"March to the Sea.\"" },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1892", "text": "King Behanzin of Dahomey (now Benin), leads soldiers against the French." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1902", "text": "A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, prompting the Teddy Bear Craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to Mississippi." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1907", "text": "The Indian and Oklahoma territories are unified to make Oklahoma, which becomes the 46th state." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1913", "text": "Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s 7-part novel Remembrance of Things Past, is published." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1920", "text": "Metered mail is born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney Bowes postage meter." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text": "Eighty-eight German scientists, holding Nazi secrets, arrive in the United States." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text": "President Harry S Truman rejects four-power talks on Berlin until the blockade is removed." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1953", "text": "The United States joins in the condemnation of Israel for its raid on Jordan." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1955", "text": "The Big Four talks, taking place in Geneva on German reunification, end in failure." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text": "After the integration of two all-white schools, 2,000 whites riot in the streets of New Orleans." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1965", "text": "In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulse NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "U.S. planes hit Haiphong shipyard in North Vietnam for the first time." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text": "American Airlines is fined $500,000 for improper DC-10 maintenance." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text": "The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Salvadoran Army death squad kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "Eric Lawes, while using a metal detector to search for a friend’s lost hammer near Hoxne, Suffolk, England, discovers the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold ever found in Britain, and the largest collection of 4th and 5th century coins found anywhere within the bounds of the former Roman Empire" },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"11", "year":"1997", "text": "Pro-democracy Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng released from prison after 18 years, for health reasons." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/17.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"375", "text": "Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys, Valentinian, the Emperor of the West, dies of apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1558", "text": "Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1558", "text": "The Church of England is re-established." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1636", "text": "Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1796", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near the Alpone River, Italy." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1800", "text": "The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the first time in Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1842", "text": "A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a mulatto named George Latimer, one of the first fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1862", "text": "Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1869", "text": "The Suez Canal is formally opened." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1877", "text": "Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1885", "text": "The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1903", "text": "Vladimir Lenin’s efforts to impose his own radical views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits the party into two factions, the Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1913", "text": "The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "Influenza deaths reported in the United States have far exceeded World War I casualties." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "German troops evacuate Brussels." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1931", "text": "Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "German Luftwaffe general and World War I fighter-ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi government tells the public that he died in a flying accident." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1951", "text": "Britain reports development of the world’s first nuclear-powered heating system." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1965", "text": "The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight on the moon, the first liftoff on the lunar surface." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1970", "text": "Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the moon." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1980", "text": "WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death by leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1993", "text": "US House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"1993", "text": "Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government of Ernest Shonekan." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text": "Controversial President of Peru Alberto Fujimori removed from office." }
+
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/18.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1477", "text": "William Claxton publishes the first dated book printed in England. It is a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosopers by Earl Rivers." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1626", "text": "St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome is officially dedicated." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1865", "text": "Mark Twain’s first story \"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\" is published in the New York Saturday Press." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1901", "text": "The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1905", "text": "The Norwegian Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles takes the name Haakon VII." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1906", "text": "Anarchists bomb St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1912", "text": "Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1928", "text": "Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "RAF bombs Berlin, using 440 aircraft and losing nine of those and 53 air crew members; damage to the German capital is light, with 131 dead." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "text": "The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1978", "text": "Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after cult member killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1983", "text": "Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1984", "text": "The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1991", "text": "The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"1993", "text": "Twenty-one political parties approve a new constitution for South Africa that expands voter rights and ends the rule of the country’s white minority." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"2002", "text": "UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix arrive in Iraq." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"11", "year":"2003", "text": "Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional; the legislature fails to act within the mandated 180 days, and on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1620", "text": "The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1828", "text": "In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "Julia Ward Howe writes \"The Battle Hymn of the Republic\" while visiting Union troops near Washington." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "Lincoln delivers the \"Gettysburg Address\" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1885", "text": "Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1873", "text": "James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1897", "text": "The Great \"City Fire\" in London." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1905", "text": "100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "text": "New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1915", "text": "The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1926", "text": "Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "text": "Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1952", "text": "Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1969", "text": "Apollo 12 touches down on the moon." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1976", "text": "Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1981", "text": "U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1985", "text": "US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1985", "text": "In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know Its True album." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1996", "text": "Canada’s Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"1998", "text": "US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"11", "year":"2010", "text": "New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed." },
+      ]
+   }
+]