facts_by_date 1.0.0 → 1.1.0

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data/.rspec

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+--color
+--format documentation

data/.travis.yml

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+language: ruby
+sudo: false

data/CHANGELOG.md

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-# v1.0.0 - 30/12/2015
+## v1.1.0 - 08/01/2016
+* Added missing dates for the rest of the year
+
+## v1.0.0 - 30/12/2015
 * First functional version

data/README.md

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 # FactsByDate
 
-TODO: Write a gem description
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/arcanoid/facts_by_date.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/arcanoid/facts_by_date)
+
+A gem that provides a list of events for today or a specific date.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -54,4 +56,5 @@ All data has been collected over the internet from the following resources.
 * http://dan.hersam.com/lists/trivia.html
 * http://www.inthe80s.com/80striva.shtml
 * http://www.historyorb.com/
-* http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/
+* http://catfacts-api.appspot.com/
+* http://www.historynet.com/

data/Rakefile

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 require "bundler/gem_tasks"
+require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
 
+RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new
+
+task :default => :spec
+task :test => :spec

data/data/10/1.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"331 BC", "text": "Alexander the Great decisively shatters King Darius III’s Persian army at Gaugamela (Arbela), in a tactical masterstroke that leaves him master of the Persian Empire." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1273", "text": "Rudolf of Hapsburg is elected emperor in Germany." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1588", "text": "The feeble Sultan Mohammed Shah of Persia, hands over power to his 17-year old son Abbas." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1791", "text": "In Paris, the National Legislative Assembly holds its first meeting." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1839", "text": "The British government decides to send a punitive naval expedition to China." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1847", "text": "Maria Mitchell, American astronomer, discovers a comet and is elected the same day to the American Academy of Arts—the first woman to be so honored. The King of Denmark awarded her a gold medal for her discovery." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1856", "text": "The first installment of Gustav Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary appears in the Revue de Paris after the publisher refuses to print a passage in which the character Emma has a tryst in the back seat of a carriage." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1864", "text": "The Condor, a British blockade-runner, is grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1878", "text": "General Lew Wallace is sworn in as governor of New Mexico Territory. He went on to deal with the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid and write Ben-Hur. His Civil War heroics earned him the moniker Savior of Cincinnati." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1890", "text": "Yosemite National Park is dedicated in California." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1908", "text": "The Ford Model T, the first car for millions of Americans, hits the market. Over 15 million Model Ts are eventually sold, all of them black." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "The German Army grinds to a complete halt within the city of Stalingrad." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1943", "text": "British troops in Italy enter Naples and occupy Foggia airfield." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "The U.S. First Army begins the siege Aachen, Germany." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1946", "text": "Eleven Nazi war criminals are sentenced to be hanged at Nuremberg trials—Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1947", "text": "First flight of F-86 Sabre jet fighter, which would win fame in the Korean War." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "Mao Zedong establishes the People’s Republic of China." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1957", "text": "\"In God We Trust\" appears on US paper currency as an act to distinguish the US from the officially atheist USSR; the motto had appeared on coins at various times since 1864." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1958", "text": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) replaces the 43-year-old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the US." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1960", "text": "Nigeria becomes independent from the UK." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1961", "text": "The Federal Republic of Cameroon is formed by the merger of East and West Cameroon." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson debuts; Carson will remain The Tonight Show host until 1992." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "The first Free Speech Movement protest erupts spontaneously on the University of California, Berkeley campus; students demanded an end to the ban of on-campus political activities." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "Japanese \"bullet trains\" (Shinkansen) begin high-speed rail transit between Tokyo and Osaka." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, the second of Disney’s \"Magic Kingdoms.\"" },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "First CT or CAT brain scan performed, at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1974", "text": "Five Nixon aides–Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon’s Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell–go on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1975", "text": "Legendary boxing match: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the \"Thrilla in Manila.\"" },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1979", "text": "US returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1982", "text": "First compact disc player, released by Sony." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1989", "text": "Denmark introduces the world’s first \"civil union\" law granting same-sex couples certain legal rights and responsibilities but stopping short of recognizing same-sex marriages." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"1991", "text": "Siege of Dubrovnik begins in the Croatian War of Independence." },
+         { "day":"1", "month":"10", "year":"2009", "text": "The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over judicial functions of the House of Lords." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/10.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"19", "text": "Germanicus, the best loved of Roman princes, dies of poisoning. On his deathbed he accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"732", "text": "At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd el-Rahman and halts the Muslim invasion of Europe." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1733", "text": "France declares war on Austria over the question of Polish succession." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1789", "text": "In Versailles France, Joseph Guillotin says the most humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by a single blow of a blade." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1794", "text": "Russian General Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov crushes the rebel Polish army at Maciejowice, Poland." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1845", "text": "The U.S. Naval Academy is founded at Annapolis, Md." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1863", "text": "The first telegraph line to Denver is completed." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1877", "text": "Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West Point in New York." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1911", "text": "Revolution in China begins with a bomb explosion and the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch’ing emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi. By October 26, the Chinese Republic will be proclaimed, and on December 4, Premier Yuan Shih-K’ai will sign a truce with rebel general Li Yuan-hung." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1911", "text": "The Panama Canal opens." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1933", "text": "At Rio de Janeiro, nations of the Western Hemisphere sign a non-aggression and conciliation treaty. President Roosevelt adopts a "good neighbor" policy toward Latin America and announces a policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs at the December 7th International American Conference at Montevideo, Uruguay." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "Soviet troops halt the German advance on Moscow." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1953", "text": "The Mutual Defense Treaty between the US and South Korea signed." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1966", "text": "U.S. Forces launch Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "The Quebec Provincial Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, is kidnapped by terrorists." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "The London Bridge, built in 1831 and dismantled in 1967, reopens in Lake Havusu City, Arizona, after being sold to Robert P. McCulloch and moved to the United States." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "Spiro Agnew resigns the vice presidency amid accusations of income tax evasion. President Richard Nixon names Gerald Ford as the new vice president. Agnew is later convicted and sentenced to three years probation and fined $10,000." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"1985", "text": "An Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship is intercepted by US Navy F-14s and forced to land at a NATO base in Sicily." },
+         { "day":"10", "month":"10", "year":"2008", "text": "Orakzai bombing, Afghanistan: members of the Taliban drive an explosive-laden truck into a meeting of 600 people discussing ways to rid their area of the Taliban; the bomb kills 110." },
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/11.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1531", "text": "The Catholics defeat the Protestants at Kappel during Switzerland’s second civil war." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1540", "text": "Charles V of Milan puts his son Philip in control." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1727", "text": "George II of England crowned." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1795", "text": "In graditude for putting down a rebellion in the streets of Paris, France’s National Convention appoints Napoleon Bonaparte second in command of the Army of the Interior." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1862", "text": "The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service. This law confirms many southerners opinion that they are in a ‘rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.’" },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1877", "text": "Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, is hanged, but it took two tries; on the first try, the rope slipped and his knees drug the ground." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1899", "text": "South African Boers, settler from the Netherlands, declare war on Great Britain." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1906", "text": "San Francisco school board orders the segregation of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "In the Battle of Cape Esperance, near the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeat a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1945", "text": "Negotiations between Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung break down. Nationalist and Communist troops are soon engaged in a civil war." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "The Federal Communications Commission authorizes the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to begin commercial color TV broadcasts." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "Pope John XXIII opens the 21st Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) with a call for Christian unity. This is the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in history; among delegate-observers are representatives of major Protestant denominations, in itself a sign of sweeping change." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "Apollo 7, with three men aboard, is successfully launched from Cape Kennedy." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "A French mission in Vietnam is destroyed by a U.S. bombing raid." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "Race riot breaks out aboard carrier USS Kitty Hawk off Vietnam during Operation Linebacker." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1975", "text": "Saturday Night Live comedy-variety show premiers on NBC, with guest host comedian George Carlin and special guests Janis Ian, Andy Kaufman and Billy Preston; at this writing (2013) the show is still running." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1976", "text": "The so-called “Gang of Four,” Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s widow and three associates, are arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1984", "text": "Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, part of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to walk in space." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1987", "text": "Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force begins in Sri Lanka; thousands of Tamil citizens, along with hundreds of Tamil Tigers militants and Indian Army soldiers will die in the operation." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"1991", "text": "Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas begin." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"2000", "text": "NASA launches its 100th Space Shuttle mission." },
+         { "day":"11", "month":"10", "year":"2001", "text": "The Polaroid Corporation, which had provided shutterbugs with photo prints in minutes with its “instant cameras” since 1947, files for bankruptcy." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1492", "text": "Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1576", "text": "Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1609", "text": "The song “Three Blind Mice” is published in London, believed to be the earliest printed secular song." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1702", "text": "Admiral Sir George Rooke defeats the French fleet off Vigo." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1722", "text": "Shah Sultan Husayn surrenders the Persian capital of Isfahan to Afgan rebels after a seven month siege." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1809", "text": "Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under mysterious circumstances in Tennessee." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1899", "text": "The Anglo-Boer War begins." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1872", "text": "Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with General Howard in Arizona Territory." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1915", "text": "Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1933", "text": "Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1943", "text": "The U.S. Fifth Army begins an assault crossing of the Volturno River in Italy." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S. ambassador." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1960", "text": "Inejiro Asanuma, leaders of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated during a live TV broadcast." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "1964 USSR launches Voskhod I, first spacecraft with multi-person crew; it is also the first mission in which the crew did not wear space suits." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1971", "text": "The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights Amendment 354-23." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1984", "text": "The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonates at bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; 5 others are killed and 31 wounded." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1994", "text": "NASA loses contact with the Magellan probe spacecraft in the thick atmosphere of Venus." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"1999", "text": "Chief of Army Staff Perez Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan through a bloodless military coup." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"2000", "text": "Suicide bombers at Aden, Yemen, damage USS Cole; 17 crew members killed and over 35 wounded." },
+         { "day":"12", "month":"10", "year":"2002", "text": "Terrorist bombers kill over 200 and wound over 300 more at the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"54", "text": "Nero succeeds his great uncle Claudius, who was murdered by his wife, as the new emperor of Rome." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1307", "text": "Members of the Knights of Templar are arrested throughout France, imprisoned and tortured by the order of King Philip the Fair of France." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1399", "text": "Henry IV of England is crowned." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1670", "text": "Virginia passes a law that blacks arriving in the colonies as Christians cannot be used as slaves." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1775", "text": "The Continental Congress authorizes construction of two warships, thus instituting an American naval force." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1776", "text": "Benedict Arnold is defeated at Lake Champlain." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1792", "text": "President George Washington lays the cornerstone for the White House." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1812", "text": "At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeats the American who have tried to invade Canada." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1849", "text": "The California state constitution, which prohibits slavery, is signed in Monterey." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1903", "text": "Boston defeats Pittsburgh in baseball’s first World Series." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1904", "text": "Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams is published." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shell Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1943", "text": "Italy declares war on Germany." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "Troops of the advancing Soviet Army occupy Riga, capital of Latvia." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1946", "text": "The Fourth Republic begins in France; will continue to 1958." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1958", "text": "First appearance of Paddington Bear, now a beloved icon of children’s literature." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1967", "text": "First game of the fledgling American Basketball Association; Oakland Oaks beat Anaheim Amigos 134-129 in Oakland, Cal." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes Mountains, near the Argentina-Chile border; only 16 survivors (out of 45 people aboard) are rescued on Dec. 23." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1976", "text": "Dr. F.A. Murphy at Center for Disease Control obtains the first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying seven, the largest crew to date, lands safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"1990", "text": "The Lebanese Civil War ends when a Syrian attack removes Gen. Michel Aoun from power." },
+         { "day":"13", "month":"10", "year":"2010", "text": "After being underground for a record 69 days, all 33 miners trapped in a Copiapo, Chile, mine are rescued." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1066", "text": "William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of Hastings." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1651", "text": "Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1705", "text": "The English Navy captures Barcelona in Spain." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1773", "text": "Britain’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1806", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1832", "text": "Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1884", "text": "Transparent paper-strip photographic film is patented by George Eastman." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1912", "text": "Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1930", "text": "Singer Ethel Merman stuns the audience when she holds a high C for sixteen bars while singing \"I Got Rhythm\" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin’s Girl Crazy." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1933", "text": "The Geneva disarmament conference breaks up as Germany proclaims withdrawal from the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations, effective October 23. This begins German policy of independent action in foreign affairs." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler’s staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1947", "text": "Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "Chinese Communist Forces begin to infiltrate the North Korean Army." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "Cuban Missile Crisis begins; USAF U-2 reconnaissance pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "Rev. Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1966", "text": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada, opens its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "US Defense Department announces 24,000 soldiers and Marines will be sent back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "Jim Hines, USA, breaks the \"ten-second barrier\" in the 100-meter sprint at the Olympics in Mexico City; his time was 9.95." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "The British 50-pence coin enters the UK’s currency, the first step toward covering to a decimal system, which was planned for 1971." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop overthrown and later executed by a military coup." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1994", "text": "Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for establishing the Oslo Accords and preparing for Palestinian Self Government." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "Eric Robert Rudolph charged with the 1996 bombing during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; It was one of several bombing incidents Rudolph carried out to protest legalized abortion in the US." },
+         { "day":"14", "month":"10", "year":"2012", "text": "Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for highest manned balloon flight, highest parachute jump, and greatest free-fall velocity, parachuting from an altitude of approximately 24 miles (39km)." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1529", "text": "Ottoman armies under Suleiman end their siege of Vienna and head back to Belgrade." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1582", "text": "The Gregorian (or New World) calendar is adopted in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal; and the preceding ten days are lost to history." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1783", "text": "Francois Pilatre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. The first flight was let out to 82 feet, but over the next few days the altitude increased up to 6,500 feet." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1813", "text": "During the land defeat of the British on the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief Tecumseh, now a brigadier general with the British Army (War of 1812), is killed." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1863", "text": "For the second time, the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sinks during a practice dive in Charleston Harbor, this time drowning its inventor along with seven crew members." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1878", "text": "Thomas A. Edison founds the Edison Electric Light Co." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1880", "text": "Victorio, feared leader of the Minbreno Apache, is killed by Mexican troops in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1892", "text": "An attempt to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kan., ends in disaster for the Dalton gang as four of the five outlaws are killed and Emmet Dalton is seriously wounded." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1894", "text": "Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, is arrested for betraying military secrets to Germany." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which labor leader Samuel Gompers calls “labor’s charter of freedom.” The act exempts unions from anti-trust laws; strikes, picketing and boycotting become legal; corporate interlocking directorates become illegal, as does setting prices which would effect a monopoly." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1917", "text": "Mata Hari, a Paris dancer, is executed by the French after being convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1924", "text": "German ZR-3 flies 5000 miles, the furthest Zeppelin flight to date." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "Odessa, a Russian port on the Black Sea which has been surrounded by German troops for several weeks, is evacuated by Russian troops." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1945", "text": "Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "President Harry Truman meets with General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island to discuss U.N. progress in the Korean War." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1966", "text": "Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale establish the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist political group, in the US." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "Rallies for The Moratorium to End the War  in Vietnam draw over 2 million demonstrators across the US, a quarter million of them in the nation’s capital." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1987", "text": "The Great Storm of 1987 strikes the UK and Europe during the night of Oct 15-16, killing over 20 people and causing widespread damage." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1989", "text": "Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky makes his 1,851st goal, breaking the all-time scoring record in the National Hockey League." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1990", "text": "Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR, receives Nobel Peace Prize for his work in making his country more open and reducing Cold War tensions." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"1997", "text": "Andy Green of the UK becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere, driving the ThrustSSC supersonic car to a record 763 mph (1,228 km/h)." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"2003", "text": "China launches its first manned space mission, Shenzhou I." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"2007", "text": "New Zealand police arrest 17 people believed to be part of a paramilitary training camp." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"2008", "text": "Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 733.08 points, the second-largest percentage drop in the Dow’s history." },
+         { "day":"15", "month":"10", "year":"2011", "text": "Protests break out in countries around the globe, under the slogan “United for Global Democracy.”" }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/16.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1555", "text": "The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1701", "text": "Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1793", "text": "Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1846", "text": "Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1859", "text": "Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1901", "text": "President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1908", "text": "The first airplane flight in England is made at Farnsborough, by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1934", "text": "Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Kiangsi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the "Long March."" },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1938", "text": "Billy the Kid, a ballet by Aaron Copland, opens in Chicago." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1940", "text": "Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African American Brigadier General." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1946", "text": "Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "The New York Mets win the World Series four games to one over the heavily-favored Baltimore Orioles." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1978", "text": "The college of cardinals elects 58-year-old Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, a Pole, the first non-Italian Pope since 1523." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1984", "text": "A baboon heart is transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae–the first transplant of the kind–at Loma Linda University Medical Center, California. Baby Fae lives until November 15." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1995", "text": "The Million Man March for ‘A Day of Atonement’ takes place in Washington, D.C." },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1995", "text": "Skye Bridge opens over Loch Alsh, Scotland" },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"1998", "text": "General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, arrested in London for extradition on murder charges" },
+         { "day":"16", "month":"10", "year":"2002", "text": "Inaugural opening of Bibliotheca Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt., a modern library and cultural center commemorating the famed Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity" }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/17.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1244", "text": "The Sixth Crusade ends when an Egyptian-Khwarismian force almost annihilates the Frankish army at Gaza." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1529", "text": "Henry VIII of England strips Thomas Wolsey of his office for failing to secure an annulment of his marriage." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1346", "text": "English forces defeat the Scots under David II during the Battle of Neville’s Cross, Scotland." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1691", "text": "Maine and Plymouth are incorporated in Massachusetts." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1777", "text": "British Maj. Gen. John Burgoyne surrenders 5,000 men at Saratoga, N.Y." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1815", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he has been banished by the Allies." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1849", "text": "Composer and pianist Frederic Chopin dies in Paris of tuberculosis at the age of 39." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1863", "text": "General Ulysses S. Grant is named overall Union Commander of the West." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1877", "text": "Brigadier General Alfred Terry meets with Sitting Bull in Canada to discuss the Indians’ return to the United States." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1913", "text": "Zeppelin LII explodes over London, killing 28." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1933", "text": "Due to rising anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism in Hitler’s Germany, Albert Einstein immigrates to the United States. He makes his new home in Princeton, N.J." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "The U.S. destroyer Kearney is damaged by a German U-boat torpedo off Iceland; 11 Americans are killed." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1956", "text": "The nuclear power station Calder Hall is opened in Britain. Calder Hall is the first nuclear station to feed an appreciable amount of power into a civilian network." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "Peace talks between Pathet Lao and Royal Lao government begin in Vietnam." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1989", "text": "The worst earthquake in 82 years strikes San Francisco bay area minutes before the start of a World Series game there. The earthquake registers 6.9 on the Richter scale–67 are killed and damage is estimated at $10 billion." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"1994", "text": "Dmitry Kholodov, a Russian journalist, assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces; his murkier began a series of killings of journalists in Russia." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"2001", "text": "Rehavam Ze’evi, Israeli tourism minister and founder of the right-wing Moledet party, assassinated by a member of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); he was the first Israeli minister ever assassinated." },
+         { "day":"17", "month":"10", "year":"2003", "text": "Taipei 101 is completed in Taipei, becoming the world’s tallest high-rise." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/18.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1648", "text": "The \"shoemakers of Boston\"–the first labor organization in what would become the United States–was authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1685", "text": "Edict of Nantes lifted by Louis XIV. The edict, signed at Nantes, France, by King Henry IV in 1598, gave the Huguenots religious liberty, civil rights and security. By revoking the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV abrogated their religious liberties." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1813", "text": "The Allies defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Leipzig." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1867", "text": "The Alaska territory is formally transferred to the U.S. from Russian control." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1867", "text": "The rules for American football are formulated at meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1883", "text": "The weather station at the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland, the highest mountain in Britain, is declared open. Weather stations were set up on the tops of mountains all over Europe and the Eastern United States in order to gather information for the new weather forecasts." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1910", "text": "M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel–from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubbs." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1912", "text": "The First Balkan War breaks out between the members of the Balkan League–Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro–and the Ottoman Empire." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "Czechs seize Prague and renounce Hapsburg’s rule." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1919", "text": "Madrid opens a subway system." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1921", "text": "Russian Soviets grant Crimean independence." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1939", "text": "President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans war submarines from U.S. ports and waters." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "Lt. General Joseph Stilwell is recalled from China by president Franklin Roosevelt." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "The First Turkish Brigade arrives in Korea to assist the U.N. forces fighting there." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1967", "text": "A Russian unmanned spacecraft makes the first landing on the surface of Venus." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "US athletes Tommi Smith and John Carlos suspended by US Olympic Committee for giving “black power” salute while receiving their medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico City." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"2003", "text": "Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada resigns in the wake of protests centered around Bolivia’s natural gas resources." },
+         { "day":"18", "month":"10", "year":"2007", "text": "Suicide attack on a motorcade in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 139 and wounds 450; the subject of the attack, Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is not harmed." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/19.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"439", "text": "The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1216", "text": "King John of England dies at Newark and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1448", "text": "The Ottoman Sultan Murat II defeats Hungarian General Janos Hunyadi at Kosovo, Serbia." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1466", "text": "The peace of Torun ends the war between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1739", "text": "England declares war on Spain over borderlines in Florida. The War is known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear because the Spanish coast guards cut off the ear of British seaman Robert Jenkins." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1781", "text": "Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Count de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Va. Cornwallis surrenders 7,157 troops, including sick and wounded, and 840 sailors, along with 244 artillery pieces. Losses in this battle had been light on both sides. The Revolutionary War is effectively ended." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1812", "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte begins his retreat from Moscow." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1848", "text": "John \"The Pathfinder\" Fremont moves out from near Westport, Missouri, on his fourth Western expedition–a failed attempt to open a trail across the Rocky Mountains along the 38th parallel." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1864", "text": "At the Battle of Cedar Creek, Va., a narrow victory helps the Union secure the Shenandoah Valley." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1873", "text": "Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of football rules." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "The German cruiser Emden captures her thirteenth Allied merchant ship in 24 days." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1917", "text": "The first doughnut is fried by Salvation Army volunteer women for American troops in France during World War I." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "The Japanese submarine I-36 launches a floatplane for a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor. The pilot and crew report on the ships in the harbor, after which the aircraft is lost at sea." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1949", "text": "The People’s Republic of China is formally proclaimed." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "The North Korean capital of Pyongyang is captured by U.N. troops." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1954", "text": "Egypt and Britain conclude a pact on the Suez Canal, ending 72 years of British military occupation. Britain agrees to withdraw its 80,000-man force within 20 months, and Egypt agrees to maintain freedom of canal navigation." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1960", "text": "Canada and the United States agree to undertake a joint Columbia River project to provide hydroelectric power and flood control." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1987", "text": "In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U. S. navy disables three of Iran’s offshore oil platforms." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1988", "text": "British government bans TV and radio interviews with members of Irish political group Sinn Fein and 11 paramilitary groups." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"1989", "text": "The 1975 conviction of the Guilford Four overturned by British courts; the 4 men had been convicted in the 1974 Guilford pub bombings." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"2003", "text": "Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II for her work among \"the poorest of the poor\" in India." },
+         { "day":"19", "month":"10", "year":"2005", "text": "Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s trail for crimes against humanity begins in Baghdad." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/2.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1263", "text": "At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repels an amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1535", "text": "Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier reaches a town, which he names Montreal." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1862", "text": "An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga. Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War’s battle above the clouds." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1870", "text": "The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy. The capital is moved from Florence to Rome." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1871", "text": "Morman leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for polygamy. He was later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1879", "text": "A dual alliance is formed between Austria and Germany, in which the two countries agree to come to the other’s aid in the event of aggression." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1909", "text": "Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham’s previous record of 508 feet." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1931", "text": "Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. set off to complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa City, Japan." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "The German army launches Operation Typhoon, the drive towards Moscow." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz, makes its first appearance in newspapers." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1959", "text": "The groundbreaking TV series The Twilight Zone, hosted by Rod Serling, premiers on CBS." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1967", "text": "Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1970", "text": "A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, staff, and supporters crashes in Colorado; 31 of the 40 people aboard die." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1980", "text": "Congressional Representative Mike Myers is expelled from the US House for taking a bribe in the Abscam scandal, the first member to be expelled since 1861." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"1990", "text": "Flight 8301 of China’s Xiamen Airlines is hijacked and crashed into Baiyun International Airport, hitting two other aircraft and killing 128 people." },
+         { "day":"2", "month":"10", "year":"2001", "text": "NATO backs US military strikes in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/20.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"480 BC", "text": "Greeks defeat the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1587", "text": "In France, Huguenot Henri de Navarre routs Duke de Joyeuse’s larger Catholic force at Coutras."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1709", "text": "Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy take Mons in the Netherlands."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1714", "text": "George I of England crowned."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1805", "text": "Austrian general Karl Mac surrenders to Napoleon’s army at the battle of Ulm."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1818", "text": "The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1870", "text": "The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1903", "text": "The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain’s, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1904", "text": "Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific. The treaty recognizes Chile’s possession of the coast, but provides for construction of a railway to link La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica, on the coast."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1924", "text": "Baseball’s first ‘colored World Series’ is held in Kansas City, Mo."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1938", "text": "Czechoslovakia, complying with Nazi policy, outlaws the Communist Party and begins persecuting Jews."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1941", "text": "German troops reach the approaches to Moscow."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1944", "text": "U.S. troops land on Leyte in the Philippines, keeping General MacArthur’s pledge \"I shall return.\""},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1945", "text": "Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1947", "text": "The House Un-American Activities Committee opens public hearings on alleged communist infiltration in Hollywood. Among those denounced as having un-American tendencies are: Katherine Hepburn, Charles Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson. Among those called to testify is Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan, who denies that leftists ever controlled the Guild and refuses to label anyone a communist."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1968", "text": "Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1973", "text": "Arab oil-producing nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1977", "text": "Charter plane crashes in Mississippi, killing three members of popular Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, along with their assistant road manager, the pilot and co-pilot."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"1991", "text": "Oakland Hills firestorm destroys nearly 3,500 homes and apartments and kills 25 people."},
+         { "day":"20", "month":"10", "year":"2011", "text": "In the Libyan civil war, rebels capture deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, killing him soon afterward."}
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/10/21.json

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1096", "text": "Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1529", "text": "The Pope names Henry VIII of England Defender of the Faith after defending the seven sacraments against Luther." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1600", "text": "Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japan’s most powerful warlord." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1790", "text": "The Tricolor is chosen as the official flag of France." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1805", "text": "Vice Admiral and Viscount Horatio Nelson wins his greatest victory over a Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Nelson is fatally wounded in the battle, but lives long enough to see victory." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1837", "text": "Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1861", "text": "The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Va. begins, a disastrous Union defeat which sparks Congressional investigations." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1867", "text": "Many leaders of the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache sign a peace treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kan. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker refused to accept the treaty terms." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1872", "text": "The U.S. Naval Academy admits John H. Conyers, the first African American to be accepted." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1879", "text": "After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete with gaslight." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1904", "text": "Panamanians clash with U.S. Marines in Panama in a brief uprising." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1917", "text": "The first U.S. troops enter the front lines at Sommerviller under French command." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1939", "text": "As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1940", "text": "Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1942", "text": "Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1950", "text": "North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1959", "text": "The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in Manhattan." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1961", "text": "Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1967", "text": "The \"March on the Pentagon,\" protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1969", "text": "Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigns over disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policies related to the Palestinians." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1983", "text": "The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada." },
+         { "day":"21", "month":"10", "year":"1994", "text": "North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree to international inspections." }
+      ]
+   }
+]

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+   {
+      "facts":[
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"741", "text": "Charles Martel of Gaul dies at Quiezy. His mayoral power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III and Carloman." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1746", "text": "Princeton University, in New Jersey, receives its charter." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1797", "text": "The first successful parachute descent is made by Andre-Jacqes Garnerin, who jumps from a balloon at some 2,200 feet over Paris." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1824", "text": "The Tennessee Legislature adjourns ending David \"Davy\" Crockett’s state political career." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1836", "text": "Sam Houston sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1862", "text": "Union troops push 5,000 confederates out of Maysbille, Ark., at the Second Battle of Pea Ridge." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1859", "text": "Spain declares war on the Moors in Morocco." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1907", "text": "Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1914", "text": "U.S. places economic support behind Allies." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1918", "text": "The cities of Baltimore and Washington run out of coffins during the \"Spanish Inflenza\" epidemic." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1938", "text": "Chester Carlson invents the photocopier. He tries to sell the machine to IBM, RCA, Kodak and others, but they see no use for a gadget that makes nothing but copies." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1954", "text": "As a result of the Geneva accords granting Communist control over North Vietnam, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes a crash program to train the South Vietnamese Army." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1955", "text": "The prototype of the F-105 Thunder Chief makes its maiden flight." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1962", "text": "U.S. reveals Soviet missile sites in Cuba. President Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade on further shipment of military equipment to Cuba. Following a confrontation that threatens nuclear war, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reports that Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1964", "text": "Jean Paul Satre declines the Nobel Prize for Literature." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1966", "text": "The Soviet Union launches Luna 12 for orbit around the moon" },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1972", "text": "Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North Vietnam with B-52 bombers, ends." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1978", "text": "Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II; born Karol Jozef Wojtyla. The Polish-born Wojtyla was the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI died in 1523; he would become the second-longest serving pope in the history of the Papacy and exercise considerable influence on events of the later portion of the 20th century." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1981", "text": "The US Federal Labor Relations authority decertified the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) from representing federal air traffic controllers, as a result of a PATCO strike in August that was broken by the Reagan Administration." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"1999", "text": "Maurice Papon, formerly an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity for his role in deporting more than 1,600 Jews to concentration camps." },
+         { "day":"22", "month":"10", "year":"2005", "text": "Tropical Storm Alpha forms, making 2005 the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms." }
+      ]
+   }
+]