On This Day in History |
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 | Royal badge of King James I & VI, a Tudor Rose joined to the Scottish Thistle, symbolizing the personal union of his realm |
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1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns. |
1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote. |
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory. |
1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla. |
2020 China's Hubei province, the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown. On the same day Indian PM Narendra Modiorders a 21 day lockdown. |
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Also Elizabeth I, John Harrison and Bernard Montgomery. |
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John Manningham was an English lawyer and diarist who wrote this especially moving entry on the passing of Queen Elizabeth I. |
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