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data/data/11/2.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1570", "text": "A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1772", "text": "The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1789", "text": "The property of the church in France is taken away by the state." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1841", "text": "The second Afghan War begins." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1869", "text": "Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1880", "text": "James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1882", "text": "Newly elected John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1889", "text": "North Dakota is made the 39th state." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1889", "text": "South Dakota is made the 40th state." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1892", "text": "Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1903", "text": "London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1914", "text": "Russia declares war with Turkey." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1920", "text": "The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1920", "text": "Charlotte Woodward, who signed the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration calling for female voting rights, casts her ballot in a presidential election." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "U.S. Navy aviator H.J. Brown sets new world speed record of 259 mph in a Curtiss racer." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1926", "text": "Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in U.S. Navy victory over Japan." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1947", "text": "Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text": "Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1959", "text": "Charles Van Doren confesses that the TV quiz show 21 is fixed and that he had been given the answers to the questions asked him." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text": "A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1976", "text": "Jimmy (James Earl) Carter elected the 39th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1983", "text": "President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"1984", "text": "Serial killer Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the US since 1962." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text": "First resident crew arrives at the International Space Station." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/20.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"269", "text": "Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor’s bodyguard." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1695", "text": "Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1700", "text": "Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1903", "text": "In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1914", "text": "Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1928", "text": "Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole)." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1931", "text": "Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text": "The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1947", "text": "Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1955", "text": "The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1962", "text": "President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "U.S. census reports the population at 200 million." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1971", "text": "The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1974", "text": "The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1978", "text": "South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1981", "text": "Microsoft Windows 1.0 released." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "Fire in England’s Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"1998", "text": "First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched." },
+         { "day":"20", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/21.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1620", "tet": "Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the \"Mayflower Compact,\" designed to bolster unity among the settlers." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1783", "tet": "Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes make the first free-flight ascent in a balloon to over 500 feet in Paris." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1789", "tet": "North Carolina ratifies the Constitution, becoming the 12th state to do it." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1855", "tet": "Franklin Colman, a pro-slavery Missourian, guns down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from Ohio, near Lawrence, Kansas." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "tet": "From Georgia, Confederate General John B. Hood launches the Franklin-Nashville Campaign into Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1904", "tet": "Motorized omnibuses replace horse-drawn cars in Paris." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1906", "tet": "In San Juan, President Theodore Roosevelt pledges citizenship for Puerto Rican people." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1907", "tet": "Cunard liner Mauritania sets a new speed record for steamship travel, 624 nautical miles in a one day run." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "tet": "Suffragettes storm Parliament in London. All are arrested and all choose prison terms." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "tet": "German ace Rudolf von Eschwege is killed over Macedonia when he attacks a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "tet": "The last German troops leave Alsace-Lorraine, France." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1927", "tet": "Police turn machine guns on striking Colorado mine workers, killing five and wounding 20." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1934", "tet": "A New York court rules Gloria Vanderbilt unfit for custody of her daughter." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1934", "tet": "Cole Porter’s musical Anything Goes premieres at New York’s Alvin Theatre." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "tet": "The United Nations grants Libya its independence by 1952." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "tet": "President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the air quality act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1970", "tet": "U.S. planes conduct widespread bombing raids in North Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1985", "tet": "US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard arrested for spying and passing classified information to Israel; he received a life sentence on Nov. 1, 1987." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "tet": "The Justice Department begins an inquiry into the National Security Council into what will become known as the Iran-Contra scandal." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "tet": "The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio; the agreement, formally ratified in Paris on Dec. 14, ends the three-and-a-half year war between Bosnia and Herzegovina." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"11", "year":"2006", "tet": "Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel assassinated in Beirut." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/22.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1220", "text": "After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1542", "text": "New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1757", "text": "The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1847", "text": "In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city’s first operatic theater, is opened." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1902", "text": "A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1915", "text": "The Anglo-Indian army, led by British General Sir Charles Townshend, attacks a larger Turkish force under General Nur-ud-Din at Ctesiphon, Iraq, but is repulsed." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1919", "text": "A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1928", "text": "British King George is confined to bed with a congested lung; the queen is to take over duties." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and Mongolians in China." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text": "Ho Chi Minh’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "Great Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1980", "text": "Eighteen Communist Party secretaries in 49 provinces are ousted from Poland." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text": "President Ronald Reagan calls for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "Justice Department finds memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1988", "text": "First prototype of B-2 Spirit strategic stealth bomber unveiled for public viewing." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Lebanese President Rene Moawad killed when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in West Beirut." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirms the end of her premiership by withdrawing from the leadership election of the Conservative Party." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text": "The first feature-length film created entirely with computer generated imagery – Toy Story – premiers." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"2004", "text": "The Orange Revolution, protesting a primary election believed to have been rigged, begins in the Ukraine. On Dec 26 Ukraine’s Supreme Court orders a revote.." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"2005", "text": "Angela Merkel becomes the first woman ever to be Chancellor of Germany; the former research scientist had previously been the first secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Union." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "Hamas and Israel begin a cease-fire following eight days of violence and 150 deaths." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/23.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1248", "text": "The city of Seville, Spain, surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile after a two-year siege." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1785", "text": "John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "Union forces win the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, begins (also in Tennessee)." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1903", "text": "Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in a Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Rigoletto." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1904", "text": "Russo-German talks break down because of Russia’s insistence to consult France." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1909", "text": "The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis Campell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1933", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1934", "text": "The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "The United States abandons the American embassy in Madrid, Spain, which is engulfed by civil war." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "U.S. troops move into Dutch Guiana to guard the bauxite mines." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "The film Casablanca premieres in New York City." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "U.S. Marines declare the island of Tarawa secure." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text": "Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1953", "text": "North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "Four men hijack an American plane, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1980", "text": "In Europe’s biggest earthquake since 1915, 3,000 people are killed in Italy." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1981", "text": "US Pres. Ronald Reagan signs top secret directive giving the CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "The first all-woman expedition to South Pole sets off from Antarctica on the part of a 70-day trip; the group includes 12 Russians, 3 Americans and 1 Japanese." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "The first Smartphone, IBM Simon, introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"2005", "text": "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected president of Liberia; she is the first woman to lead an African nation." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"2006", "text": "In the second-deadliest day of sectarian violence in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war, 215 people are killed and nearly 260 injured by bombs in Sadr City." },
+         { "day":"23", "month":"11", "year":"2011", "text": "Yemeni President Ali Abullah Saleh signs a deal to to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity; the agreement came after 11 months of protests." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/24.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1542", "text": "The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss in England." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1859", "text": "Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker’s forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text": "Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1874", "text": "Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1902", "text": "The first Congress of Professional Photographers convenes in Paris." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1912", "text": "Austria denounces Serbian gains in the Balkans; Russia and France back Serbia while Italy and Germany back Austria." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1927", "text": "Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text": "Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are accused of anti-Nazi plotting." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "American B-29s flying from Saipan bomb Tokyo." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "text": "The Iron and Steel Act nationalizes the steel industry in Britain." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "The United Nations adopts bans on nuclear arms over American protests." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1977", "text": "Greece announces the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text": "The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "US Congress passes the Brady Bill requiring a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales; the bill is named for Pres. Ronald Reagan’s press secretary who was left partially paralyzed by a bullet during an assassination attempt on Reagan." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text": "Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce." },
+          { "day":"24", "month":"11", "year":"2012", "text": "A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 110 people." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/25.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"2348 BC", "text": "Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1876", "text": "Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife‘s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1901", "text": "Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1914", "text": "German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "Chile and Peru sever relations." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "Hirohito becomes regent of Japan." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1930", "text": "An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1946", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1947", "text": "The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1951", "text": "A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1955", "text": "The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1987", "text": "Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993." },
+         { "day":"25", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/26.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1688", "text":"Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1774", "text":"A congress of colonial leaders criticizes British influence in the colonies and affirms their right to \"Life, liberty and property.\"" },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1789", "text":"George Washington proclaims this a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the date for Thanksgiving." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1812", "text":"Napoleon Bonaparte’s army begins crossing the Beresina River over two hastily constructed bridges." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1825", "text":"The Kappa Alpha Society, the second American college Greek-letter fraternity, is founded." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text":"The first National Thanksgiving is celebrated." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1901", "text":"The Hope diamond is brought to New York." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1907", "text":"The Duma lends support to Czar in St. Petersburg, who claims he has renounced autocracy." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text":"The Bolsheviks offer an armistice between Russian and the Central Powers." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text":"Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, archeologists, open King Tut’s tomb, undisturbed for 3,000 years." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text":"Poland renews nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union to protect against a German invasion." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text":"The Soviet Union charges Finland with artillery attack on border." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text":"The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1947", "text":"France expels 19 Soviet citizens, charging them with intervention in internal affairs." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "text":"India becomes a sovereign Democratic republic." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text":"North Korean and Chinese troops halt a UN offensive." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1957", "text":"President Eisenhower suffers a minor stroke." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1975", "text":"Lynette \"Squeaky\" Fromme is found guilty of an attempt on President Gerald Ford’s life." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text":"Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text":"Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected the 71st Japanese prime minister." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1983", "text":"At London’s Heathrow Airport, almost 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million stolen from Brinks-MAT vault." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"1998", "text":"Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text":"Republican candidate George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida’s electoral votes, giving him enough electoral votes to defeat Democrat Al Gore Jr. for the US presidency, despite losing the popular vote." },
+         { "day":"26", "month":"11", "year":"2011", "text":"NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+[
+  {
+    "facts":[
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"511",
+        "text":"Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1095",
+        "text":"In Clermont, France, Pope Urbana II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1382",
+        "text":"The French nobility, led by Olivier de Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1812",
+        "text":"One of the two bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte’s army across the Beresina River in Russia collapses during a Russian artillery barrage."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1826",
+        "text":"Jebediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1862",
+        "text":"George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1868",
+        "text":"Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer‘s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1887",
+        "text":"U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1904",
+        "text":"The German colonial army defeats Hottentots at Warm bad in southwest Africa."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1909",
+        "text":"U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1919",
+        "text":"Bulgaria signs peace treaty with Allies at Unequally, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1922",
+        "text":"Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1936",
+        "text":"Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1942",
+        "text":"The French fleet in Toulon is scuttled to keep it from Germany."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1950",
+        "text":"East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1954",
+        "text":"Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1959",
+        "text":"Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1967",
+        "text":"Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1967",
+        "text":"Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1970",
+        "text":"Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1973",
+        "text":"US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as President of the United States, following President Richard Nixon’s resignation; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1978",
+        "text":"San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1978",
+        "text":"Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan, or PKK) founded; militant group that fought an armed struggle for an independent Kurdistan."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1984",
+        "text":"Britain and Spain sign the Brussels Agreement to enter discussions over the status of Gibraltar."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"1999",
+        "text":"Helen Clark becomes first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"2001",
+        "text":"Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"2004",
+        "text":"Pope John Paul II returns relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"2005",
+        "text":"First partial human face transplant completed Amiens, France."
+      },
+      {
+        "day":"27",
+        "month":"11",
+        "year":"2006",
+        "text":"Canadian House of Commons approves a motion, tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, recognizing the Quebecois as a nation within Canada."
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+]

data/data/11/28.json

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+  {
+    "facts":[
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1520", "text": "Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1729", "text": "Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1868", "text": "Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1872", "text": "The Modoc War of 1872-73 begins in northern California when fighting breaks out between Modoc Chief Captain Jack and a cavalry detail led by Captain James Jackson." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1899", "text": "The British are victorious over the Boers at Modder River." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1919", "text": "Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1925", "text": "The forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, called the WSM Barn Dance, opens in Nashville, Tennessee." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "The German Reich declares all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1937", "text": "Spanish leader Francisco Franco blockades the Spanish coast." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "The Soviet Union scraps its nonaggression pact with Finland." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise departs from Pearl Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to Wake Island. This mission saves the carrier from destruction when the Japanese attack." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "The first shipment of supplies reach Antwerp by convoy, a new route for the Allies." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text": "Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN forces." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1971", "text": "The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as priests." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1975", "text": "East Timor declares independence from Portugal." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1980", "text": "Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War); Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1984", "text": "Republican Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"1991", "text": "South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia." },
+        { "day":"28", "month":"11", "year":"2002", "text": "Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya." }
+    ]
+  }
+]