On This Day in History |
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1581 Commissioned by Catherine de' Medici, the first ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine" is staged in Paris |
 | Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that was to make his name |
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1582 Gregorian calendar is introduced in Spain, Portugal and the Papal States, after skipping 10 days from October 4 to sync the calendar to the solar year and compensate for the drift that had occurred due to the Julian calendar having too many leap days |
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the island of St Helena to begin his exile |
1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day in the US, millions nationwide protest against the war |
1993 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
2017 Actress Alyssa Milano's tweet “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’" prompts flood of replies across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter |
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Also Virgil and Penny Marshall. |
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A cozy assurance from a BBC weather forecaster for viewers not to worry about an impending storm has gone down as the most spectacular mis-forecast in history. |
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