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This Day In History
1533
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn and is
excommunicated by Pope Clement VII
1787
American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion
to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons
1915
Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in SF
1924
The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in
Chamonix, France, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1961
Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1992
Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C26
Famous Birthdays
1736
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born
mathematician (d. 1813)
1759
Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
1841
Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord
(d. 1920)
1882
Virginia Woolf, English writer (d.
1941)
1938
Etta James, American singer (d. 2012)
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