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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

In 1030, Olaf II of Norway dies.
In 1099, Pope Urban II dies.
In 1565, Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart.
In 1567, James VI is crowned King of Scotland.
In 1644, Pope Urban VIII dies.
In 1646, German Composer Johan Theile is born.
In 1797, American Financier Daniel Drew is born.
In 1805, French Historian and Political Scientist Alexis de Tocqueville is born.
In 1848, During the Irish Potato Famine the Tipperary Revolt occurs.
In 1858, The United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
In 1864, Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested.
In 1883, Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini is born.
In 1890, French Painter Vincent Van Gogh dies.
In 1891, Israeli gynecologist Bernhard Zondek is born.
In 1921, Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
In 1938, American Journalist Peter Jennings is born.
In 1948, The 1948 Olympics Games in London open.
In 1953, American film producer Ken Burns was born.
In 1957, The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
In 1966, Musical Artist Martina McBride was born.
In 1972, American Actor Wil Wheaton was born.
In 1976, In New York City, David Berkowitz kills one person and wounds another in a series of attacks.
In 1981, 700 Million people watch the Wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.
In 2005, Astronomers announce the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

In 8 BC, The Roman Poet Horace dies.
In 1095, Pope Urban II declares the first Crusade.
In 1295, The first elect representative of Lancashire are summoned to attend “The Model Parliament”.
In 1703, The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed.
In 1746, Negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase, Robert Livingston, is born.
In 1815, The adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland occurs.
In 1839, The American Statistical Association is founded.
In 1843, Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper, is born.
In 1852, Ada Lovelace, British Mathematician dies.
In 1901, The American War College is established.
In 1924, The First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
In 1934, Baby Face Nelson dies in a Shootout with FBI agents.
In 1935, American documentary Filmmaker, Les Blank, was born.
In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses Congress for the first time after President John F. Kennedy was shot.
In 1973, The US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.
In 1975, Ross McWhirter, British Co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is assassinated.
In 1978, George Moscone and Harvey Milk are assassinated.
In 1999, Helen Clark becomes the first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand.
In 2007, Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade, dies.

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