On This Day in History |
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1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors |
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII |
1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts |
 | S. A. Andrée and Knut Fraenkel beside their crashed balloon in the arctic |
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1897 Salomon August Andrée and crew leaves Spitsbergen in northern Norway by balloon headed for the North Pole |
1944 Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States |
1995 More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica on directive of Radovan Karadžić |
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Also E. B. White and Alessia Cara (28). |
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Also Frank Rosenblatt and Laurence Olivier. |
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Battle-weary, defeated and dejected, it took a spider to convince Robert the Bruce, born on this day, that his cause was not lost. |
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