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Friday, April 15
On This Date In 1452 Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, "at the third hour of the night” in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. He was the illegitimate son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Cat...
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Friday, April 08
On This Date In 564 Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C. Actually, the Buddhist tradition that celebrates his birthday on April 8 originally placed his birth in the 11th century B....
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Thursday, March 31
On This Date In 1605 Pope Leo XI (2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year. He died on the 27th day of his pontificate, and was succeeded by Pope Paul V. On This Date In 1621 At the Plymouth settlement in pres...
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Friday, March 25
On This Date In 1634 The first English settlers-a carefully selected group of Catholics and Protestants-arrived at St. Clement's Island on Maryland's western shore aboard the Ark and the Dove, and founded the settlement of St. Mary’s. On This Date In 1774 British Parliament passed the Boston ...
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Friday, March 18
On This Date In 1766 The Declaratory Act of 1766, allowing British Parliament to make laws and changes to the colonial government of what would become The United States of America, was passed.. On This Date In 1782 John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850), the 7th Vice Presid...
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Friday, March 11
On This Date In 1779 Congress established the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help plan, design and prepare environmental and structural facilities for the U.S. Army. Made up of civilian workers, members of the Continental Army and French officers, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers played an ess...