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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

• In 988, Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies.
• In 1536, Anne Boleyn, Second wife of Henry VIII is beheaded.
• In 1586, Queen Elizabeth I orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• In 1749, King George II of Great Britain grants a charter to the Ohio Company for land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• In 1773, Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist, is born.
• In 1795, American statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Josiah Bartlett, dies.
• In 1828, President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law..
• In 1890, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh is born.
• In 1897, Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.
• In 1921, The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act.
• In 1925, American civil rights leader Malcolm X is born.
• In 1939, American Astronaut Dick Scobee is born.
• In 1961, Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet.
• In 1971, American Poet Ogden Nash dies.
• In 1991, Croatians vote for independence.

Look for more current news later and another historical daily run down, next week.

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