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On this date in 1453, Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the Ottoman…
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On this date in 1692, William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes a special Court…
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On this date, 1849, Abraham Lincoln received a patent (only US President to do so) for a device…
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On this date in 1819 the first bicycles in the US, called swift walkers, were debuted in…
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On this date in 1609, William Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher…
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On this date in 1220, English King Henry III laid the foundation stone for a new Lady Chapel,…
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On this date in 1618, German astronomer Johannes Keplerdiscovered the third of his three planetary laws, the…
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On this date in 1787, Delegates gathered in Philadelphia to draw up the Constitution of the…
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On this date in 1607, English colonists led by John Smith establish Jamestown at a second landing…