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data/data/11/29.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1760", "text":"Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1787", "text":"Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting civil status to Protestants." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1812", "text":"The last elements of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armee retreats across the Beresina River in Russia." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text":"The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text":"Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles’ camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1903", "text":"An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text":"An international commission headed by American banker Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1929", "text":"Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1931", "text":"The Spanish government seizes large estates for land redistribution." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text":"Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text":"The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time as the season opens with \"Othello.\"" },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text":"The popular children’s television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "text":"The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text":"NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1962", "text":"Algeria bans the Communist Party." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text":"President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text":"US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"1972", "text":"Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game." },
+         { "day":"29", "month":"11", "year":"2007", "text":"Armed forces of the Philippines besiege The Peninsula Manila in response to a mutiny led by Senator Antonio Trillanes." },
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/3.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1493", "text": "Christopher Columbus arrives at the Caribbee Isles (Dominica) during his second expedition." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1507", "text": "Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint Lisa Gherardini (\"Mona Lisa\")." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1529", "text": "The first parliament for five years opens in England and the Commons put forward bills against abuses amongst the clergy and in the church courts." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1794", "text": "Thomas Paine is released from a Parisian jail with help from the American ambassador James Monroe. He was arrested for having offended the Robespierre faction." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1813", "text": "American troops destroy the Indian village of Tallushatchee in the Mississippi Valley." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1868", "text": "Ulysses S. Grant elected the 18th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1883", "text": "A poorly trained Egyptian army, led by British General William Hicks, marches toward El Obeid in the Sudan–straight into a Mahdist ambush and massacre." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1883", "text": "The U.S. Supreme Court declares American Indians to be \"dependent aliens.\"" },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1892", "text": "First automatic telephone exchange goes into operation in La Porte, Indiana." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1896", "text": "William McKinley is elected 25th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1912", "text": "The first all-metal plane flies near Issy, France, piloted by Ponche and Prinard." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "The German fleet at Kiel mutinies. This is the first act leading to Germany’s capitulation in World War I." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "Milk drivers on strike dump thousands of gallons of milk onto New York City’s streets." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "Left-wing groups in France form the Socialist and Republican Union." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1957", "text": "The Soviet Union launches Sputnik II with the dog Laika, the first animal in space, aboard." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "For the first time residents of Washington, D.C., are allowed to vote in a presidential election." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "Lyndon B. Johnson is elected the 36th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "Robert Kennedy, brother of the slain president, is elected as a senator from New York." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "The Battle of Dak To begins in Vietnam’s Central Highlands; actually a series of engagements, the battle would continue through Nov. 22." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1969", "text": "US President Richard Nixon, speaking on TV and radio, asks the \"silent majority\" of the American people to support his policies and the continuing war effort in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "NASA launches Mariner 10, which will become the first probe to reach Mercury." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text": "Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis kill 5 and wound 7 members of the Communist Workers Party during a \"Death to the Klan\" rally in Greensboro, NC; the incident becomes known as the Greensboro Massacre." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1983", "text": "Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports the US has secretly been selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages being held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "Arkansas Governor Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton is elected 42nd president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"3", "month":"11", "year":"1997", "text": "US imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to human rights abuses and support of Islamic extremist groups." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1782", "text":"The British sign a preliminary agreement in Paris, recognizing American independence." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1838", "text":"Mexico declares war on France." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text":"The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text":"The Union wins the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1900", "text":"The French government denounces British actions in South Africa, declaring sympathy for the Boers." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1900", "text":"Oscar Wilde dies in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room’s wallpaper: \"One of us had to go.\"" },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1906", "text":"President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1919", "text":"Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text":"Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text":"Russian forces take Danzig in Poland and invade Austria." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1948", "text":"The Soviet Union complete the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text":"President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1956", "text":"The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text":"The Soviet Union vetoes a UN seat for Kuwait, pleasing Iraq." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1974", "text":"India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade ban." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1974", "text":"Pioneer II sends photos back to NASA as it nears Jupiter." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text":"Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope in 1,000 years to attend an Orthodox mass." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1981", "text":"Representatives of the US and USSR meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin negotiations on reducing the number of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1982", "text":"Thriller, Michael Jackson’s second solo album, released; the album, produced by Quincy Jones, became the best-selling album in history." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1993", "text":"US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (better known as the Brady Bill) into law." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1994", "text":"MS Achille Lauro, a ship with long history of problems including a 1985 terrorist hijacking, catches fire off the coast of Somalia." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text":"Operation Desert Storm officially comes to an end." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"1998", "text":"Exxon and Mobil oil companies agree to a $73.7 billion merge, creating the world’s largest company, Exxon-Mobil." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"2004", "text":"On the game show Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses after 74 consecutive victories. It is the longest winning streak in game-show history, earning him a total of over $3 million." },
+         { "day":"30", "month":"11", "year":"2005", "text":"John Sentamu becomes Archbishop of York, making him the Church of England’s first black archbishop." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/4.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"644" , "text": "Umar of Arabia is assassinated at Medina and is succeeded as caliph by Uthman." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1493", "text": "Christopher Columbus discovers Guadeloupe during his second expedition." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1677", "text": "William III and Mary of England wed on William’s birthday." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1760", "text": "Following the Russian capture of Berlin, Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Torgau." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1791", "text": "General Arthur St. Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, is badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1798", "text": "Congress agrees to pay a yearly tribute to Tripoli, considering it the only way to protect U.S. shipping." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1842", "text": "Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1854", "text": "Florence Nightingale and her nurses arrive in the Crimea." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "From the main Confederate Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet’s troops are sent northeast to besiege Knoxville." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "Austria signs an armistice with the Allies." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text": "The U.S. Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text": "The entrance to King Tut’s tomb is discovered." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1924", "text": "Calvin Coolidge is elected 30th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1924", "text": "Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson are elected first and second women governors (Wyoming and Texas)." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1946", "text": "The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is established." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1952", "text": "General Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1956", "text": "Russian troops attack Budapest, Hungary." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1979", "text": "At the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1980", "text": "Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1992", "text": "Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text": "Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv." },
+         { "day":"4", "month":"11", "year":"2008", "text": "Senator Barack Obama of Illinois elected 44th president of the United States, the first African American to hold that position." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/5.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1219", "text": "The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1556", "text": "The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1605", "text": "Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the \"Gunpowder Plot.\" Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1653", "text": "The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1757", "text": "Frederick II of Prussia defeats the French at Rosbach in the Seven Years War." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1768", "text": "William Johnson, the northern Indian Commissioner, signs a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for future settlement." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1814", "text": "Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1840", "text": "Afghanistan surrenders to the British army." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1854", "text": "British and French defeat the Russians at Inkerman, Crimea." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1862", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1872", "text": "Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "text": "Calbraith P. Rodgers ends first transcontinental flight–49 days from New York to Pasadena, Calif." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1912", "text": "Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1914", "text": "France and Great Britain declare war on Turkey." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text": "General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1930", "text": "Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Babbit." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "Parker Brothers company launches \"Monopoly,\" a game of real estate and capitalism." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1940", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for third term." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "Richard Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1968", "text": "Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text": "Andre Dallaire’s attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is foiled when the minister’s wife locks the door." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"2003", "text": "Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, pleads guilty to 48 counts of murder." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"2006", "text": "Former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, along with Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, is sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi’a Muslims in 1982." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"2007", "text": "Chang’e 1, China’s first lunar satellite, begins its orbit of the moon." },
+         { "day":"5", "month":"11", "year":"2009", "text": "The deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation occurs at Fort Hood, Texas, when US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/6.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1429", "text": "Henry VI is crowned King of England." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1812", "text": "The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1860", "text": "Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1863", "text": "A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1891", "text": "Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer’s \"Last Stand\" at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1911", "text": "Maine becomes a dry state." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text": "The Bolshevik \"October Revolution\" (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1945", "text": "The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit, Michigan." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1985", "text": "Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia’s Palace of Justice in Bogata; during the two-day siege and the military assault to retake the building over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LRR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport; 45 people are killed, the deadliest civilian helicopter crash to date (2013)." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1986", "text": "The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1995", "text": "The Rova of Antananarivo, home of Madagascar’s sovereigns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire." },
+         { "day":"6", "month":"11", "year":"1999", "text": "Australia’s voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/7.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1665", "text": "The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1811", "text": "Rebellious Indians in a conspiracy organized in defiance of the United States government by Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, are defeated during his absence in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe) by William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1814", "text": "Andrew Jackson attacks and captures Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1846", "text": "Zachary Taylor, one of the heroes of the Mexican War, is elected president." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches an unsuccessful raid on Belmont, Missouri." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1876", "text": "Rutherford B. Hayes is elected 19th president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1881", "text": "Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona’s, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1916", "text": "President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1916", "text": "Jeannette Rankin (R-Montana) is elected the first congresswoman." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text": "British General Sir Edmond Allenby breaks the Turkish defensive line in the Third Battle of Gaza." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1917", "text": "The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take power in Russia." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "Benito Mussolini declares himself to be leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1940", "text": "Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1943", "text": "British troops launch a limited offensive along the coast of Burma." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term by defeating Thomas Dewey." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1956", "text": "UN General Assembly calls for France, Israel and the UK to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "In Cleveland, Ohio, Carl B. Stokes becomes the first African American elected mayor of a major American city." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1967", "text": "President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1972", "text": "President Richard Nixon is re-elected." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1973", "text": "Congress overrides Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution that limited presidential power to wage ware without congressional approval." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1975", "text": "A uprising in Bangladesh kills Brig. Gen. Khaled Mosharraf and frees Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman, future president of the country, from house arrest." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1983", "text": "A bomb explodes in the US Capitol’s Senate Chambers area, causing $250,000 damages but no one is harmed; a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed the bomb was retaliation for US military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1989", "text": "Douglas Wilder wins Virginia’s gubernatorial election, becoming the first elected African American governor in the US; during Reconstruction Mississippi had an acting governor and Louisiana had an appointed governor who were black." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1990", "text": "Mary Robinson becomes the first woman elected President of the Republic of Ireland." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"1994", "text": "The world’s first internet radio broadcast originates from WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text": "Hilary Rodham Clinton becomes the first First Lady (1993–2001) elected to public office in the US when she wins a US Senate seat." },
+         { "day":"7", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text": "Election Day in the US ends with the winner between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore still undecided." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/11/8.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"392	", "text": 	"Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1226", "text":	"Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1576", "text":	"The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1620", "text":	"The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1685", "text":	"Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1793", "text":	"The Louvre opens in Paris. But wasn’t it already a Palace and it merely opens to the people?" },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text":	"Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text":	"President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1887", "text":	"Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1889", "text":	"Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1900", "text":	"Theodore Dresier’s first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1904", "text":	"President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1910", "text":	"The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text":	"Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the \"Beer Hall Putsch,\" and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator. ." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1932", "text":	"Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected 32nd president of the United States." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text":	"Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text":	"The United States and Great Britain invade Axis-occupied North Africa." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1960", "text":	"John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1965", "text":	"Vietnam War, Operation Hump: US 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Bien Hoa Province. Nearby, in the Gang Toi Hills, a company of the Royal Australian Regiment also engaged Viet Cong forces." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1966", "text":	"Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1977", "text":	"Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers what is believed to be the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina in northern Greece." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1983", "text":	"Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"1987", "text":	"A dozen people are killed and over 60 wounded when the IRA detonates a bomb during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, honoring those who had died in wars involving British forces." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"2000", "text":	"Dispute begins over US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore; Supreme Court ruling on Dec. 12 results in a 271-266 electoral victory for Bush." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"2004", "text":	"More than 10,000 US troops and a few Iraqi army units besiege an insurgent stronghold at Fallujah." },
+         { "day":"8", "month":"11", "year":"2013", "text":	"Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, slams into the Philippines, with sustained winds of 195 mpg (315 kph) and gusts up to 235 mph (380 kph); over 5,000 are killed (date is Nov 7 in US)." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"694" , "text": "Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims/sentenced to slavery" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1282", "text": "Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1313", "text": "Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1330", "text": "Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1492", "text": "Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1494", "text": "Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1520", "text": "Height of the Stockholm Bloodbath - King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden executes Swedish nobles" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1526", "text": "Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1541", "text": "Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1569", "text": "Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1580", "text": "Spanish troops lands in Ireland" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1620", "text": "After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1673", "text": "English King Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1681", "text": "Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1697", "text": "Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1720", "text": "Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1729", "text": "Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1764", "text": "Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1794", "text": "Russian troops occupy Warsaw" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1799", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte becomes dictator (1st consul) of France" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1821", "text": "1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1842", "text": "The first U.S. design patent for typefaces and borders was issued to George Bruce of New York City" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1848", "text": "Post office at Clay & Pike opens" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1848", "text": "Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1851", "text": "Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1853", "text": "Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1854", "text": "Franz Liszt's \"Fest-Long\" premieres" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1857", "text": "Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1858", "text": "1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1861", "text": "Battle of Piketon, Ky" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1862", "text": "US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text": "1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1864", "text": "Sherman issues preliminary plans for his \"March to the Sea\"" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1872", "text": "The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1877", "text": "American Chemical Society chartered in NY" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1885", "text": "Opera \"Ermine\" premieres in London" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1888", "text": "Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1900", "text": "China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1904", "text": "1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1905", "text": "Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1906", "text": "Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1907", "text": "Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1907", "text": "The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1912", "text": "Ferenc Molnàrs \"Farkas\" premieres in Budapest" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1913", "text": "Storm \"Freshwater Fury\" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes1" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1914", "text": "Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "Bavaria proclaims itself a republic" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1918", "text": "Republic Germany proclaimed" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1921", "text": "Partito Nazionalista Fascista forms in Italy by Mussolini" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1922", "text": "Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1923", "text": "Beer Hall Putsc; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler flees" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1924", "text": "Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1925", "text": "German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1925", "text": "Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1927", "text": "Giant Panda discovered, China" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1927", "text": "Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1930", "text": "1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1932", "text": "Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1932", "text": "Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1935", "text": "Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "Albanian government of Frasheri falls" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1936", "text": "American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China - becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1937", "text": "Japanese army conquers Shanghai" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1937", "text": "St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text": "Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1938", "text": "Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins." },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "\"Ninotchka\" with Greta Garbo premieres" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1939", "text": "Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 British agents" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1941", "text": "Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "German occupiers install Erik Scavenius as Danish premier" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1942", "text": "Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1944", "text": "Walcheren purged of Nazi troops" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1946", "text": "US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1949", "text": "Costa Rica adopts Constitution" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1950", "text": "White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1953", "text": "Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1953", "text": "KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1953", "text": "Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1955", "text": "Michael Gazzo's \"Hatful of Rain\" premieres in NYC" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1955", "text": "NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1955", "text": "UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1956", "text": "Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champion" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "PGA eliminates caucasians only rule" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "Paddy Chayefsky's \"Gideon\" premieres in NYC" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1961", "text": "The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1962", "text": "Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1962", "text": "US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "\"Tovarich\" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1963", "text": "17th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 42-7 in Annapolis" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "\"Comedy in Music-Opus 2\" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1964", "text": "Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan" },
+         { "day":"9", "month":"11", "year":"1965", "text": "1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis" }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/1.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1135", "text": "Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1581", "text": "Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "President Abraham Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1881", "text": "Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1900", "text": "Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1905", "text": "Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1908", "text": "The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria’s action in Bosnia-Herzegovina."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1909", "text": "President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua’s Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1916", "text": "King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1918", "text": "An American army of occupation enters Germany."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1925", "text": "After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1933", "text": "Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1934", "text": "Josef Stalin’s aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Japan’s Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1942", "text": "National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1955", "text": "Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1969", "text": "America’s first draft lottery since 1942 is held."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1971", "text": "Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "AIDS virus officially recognized."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1986", "text": "Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1988", "text": "Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state"},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1989", "text": "East Germany’s parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1990", "text": "Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"1991", "text": "Ukraine’s voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR."},
+         { "day":"1", "month":"12", "year":"2001", "text": "Trans World Airlines’ final flight following the carrier’s purchase by American Airlines; TWA began operating 76 years earlier. The final flight, 220, piloted by Capt. Bill Compton, landed at St. Louis International Airport."}
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/10.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1817", "text": "Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "Kentucky is admitted to the Confederate States of America." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill creating the state of West Virginia." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1869", "text": "Governor John Campbell signs the bill that grants women in Wyoming Territory the right to vote as well as hold public office." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1898", "text": "The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, ceding Spanish possessions, including the Philippines, to the United States." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1917", "text": "The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Red Cross." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1918", "text": "U.S. troops are called to guard Berlin as a coup is feared." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1919", "text": "Captain Ross Smith becomes the first person to fly 11,500 miles from England to Australia." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1936", "text": "Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American-born divorcee." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "Japanese troops invade the Philippine island of Luzon." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "The siege of Tobruk in North Africa is raised." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1943", "text": "Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill that postpones a draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1943", "text": "Allied forces bomb Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1949", "text": "150,000 French troops mass at the border in Vietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1950", "text": "Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first African-American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1977", "text": "On UN Human Rights Day, the Soviet Union places 20 prominent dissidents under house arrest, cutting off telephones and threatening to break up a planned silent demonstration in Moscow’s Pushkin Square. Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1978", "text": "President of Egypt Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1983", "text": "Democracy restored to Argentina with the assumption of Raul Alfonsin." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1989", "text": "Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"12", "year":"1993", "text": "The Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, East England, closes, marking the end of the County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/12/11.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1688", "text": "James II abdicates the throne because of William of Orange landing in England." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1816", "text": "Indiana is admitted to the Union as the 19th state." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1861", "text": "A raging fire sweeps the business district of Charleston, South Carolina, adding to an already depressed economic state." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1862", "text": "Union General Ambrose Burnside occupies Fredericksburg and prepares to attack the Confederates under Robert E. Lee." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1863", "text": "Union gunboats Restless, Bloomer and Caroline enter St. Andrew’s Bay, Fla., and begin bombardment of both Confederate quarters and saltworks." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1882", "text": "A production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe at Boston’s Bijou Theatre becomes the first performance in a theatre lit by incandescent electric lights." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1927", "text": "Nearly 400 world leaders sign a letter to President Calvin Coolidge asking the United States to join the World Court." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1930", "text": "As the economic crisis grows, the Bank of the United States closes its doors." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1933", "text": "Reports say Paraguay has captured 11,000 Bolivians in the war over Chaco." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1936", "text": "Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicates the throne to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1941", "text": "The United States declares war on Italy and Germany." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1943", "text": "U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull demands that Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria withdraw from the war." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1945", "text": "A Boeing B-29 Superfortress shatters all records by crossing the United States in five hours and 27 minutes." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1951", "text": "Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1955", "text": "Israel raids Syrian positions on the Sea of Galilee." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1964", "text": "Frank Sinatra, Jr., is returned home to his parents after being kidnapped for the ransom amount of $240,000." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1967", "text": "The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, is unveiled in Toulouse, France." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1972", "text": "Challenger, the lunar lander for Apollo 17, touches down on the moon’s surface, the last time that men visit the moon." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1978", "text": "Massive demonstrations take place in Tehran against the shah." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1981", "text": "Military forces in El Salvador kill over 800 civilians in what is known as the El Mozote massacre during the Salvadoran Civil War." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"1997", "text": "The Kyoto Protocol international treaty intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses, opens for signature." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"2001", "text": "People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"2005", "text": "Cronulla riots begin in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"2006", "text": "President of Mexico Felipe Calderon launches a military-led offensive against drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacan." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"12", "year":"2008", "text": "Bernard \"Bernie\" Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in what was called a $50-billion Ponzi scheme." }
+      ]
+   }
+]