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Friday, January 21
On This Date In 1276 Pierre de Tarentaise (Pope Blessed Innocent V) was elected Pope, succeeding Gregory X, whose intimate adviser he was. He assumed the name of Innocent V and was the first Dominican pope. On This Date In 1757 The Battle on Snowshoes was fought, a skirmish fought between ...
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Friday, January 14
On This Date In 1301 Andrew III the Venetian, King of Hungary (1290-1301), died. He was the last member of the Hungarian Árpád dynasty on the paternal line. On This Date In 1343 Arnošt of Pardubice became the bishop of Prague, was the last bishop of Prague, and was its first Archbishop (co...
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Friday, January 07
On This Date In 1566 Antonio Ghislieri (Pius V) was elected Pope. Pope St. Pius V (17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O.P.), was pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in t...
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Friday, December 17
On This Date In 1620 The Mayflower dropped anchor in Plymouth Harbor, the location of Plymouth Rock, where colonists are said to have first set foot on land.On This Date In 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was born. A German composer and pianist, he was a...
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Friday, December 10
On This Date In 1817 Mississippi was the 20th state admitted to the Union.On This Date In 1869 John Campbell, Governor of the Wyoming Territory, approved the first law in U.S. history explicitly granting women the right to vote.On This Date In 1898 The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spa...
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Friday, December 03
On This Date In 1818 Illinois entered the Union as the 21st state, taking its name from the Illinois Confederation—a group of Algonquian-speaking tribes native to the area.On This Date In 1847 Frederick Douglass established the abolitionist paper The North Star, in Rochester, NY, and develope...