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1572: Thomas Percy – The Count who was Publicly Executed Because he Was a Catholic

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1572: Thomas Percy – The Count who was Publicly Executed Because he Was a Catholic

Thomas Percy was a member of the English aristocracy. He held the title of "Earl of Northumberland" (the ...

Thomas Percy was a member of the English aristocracy. He held the title of "Earl of Northumberland" (the English title of earl is similar to the title of count in the rest of Europe). He was also addr ...

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1241: Death of Pope Gregory IX – Founder of the Papal Inquisition

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1241: Death of Pope Gregory IX – Founder of the Papal Inquisition

Pope Gregory IX was born as Ugolino on this day in 1241. He established the Papal Inquisition, the organi ...

Pope Gregory IX was born as Ugolino on this day in 1241. He established the Papal Inquisition, the organization which fought against the teachings which were harmful to the Catholicism. Allegedly, Gre ...

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1714: The First Great Victory of the Russian Navy

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1714: The First Great Victory of the Russian Navy

On this day in 1714, the Imperial Russian Navy achieved its first major victory at the Battle of Gangut, ...

On this day in 1714, the Imperial Russian Navy achieved its first major victory at the Battle of Gangut, during the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden. The battle took place in what is now s ...

August 07, 2019
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1960: The African Country which Built the Largest Church in the World

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1960: The African Country which Built the Largest Church in the World

The Ivory Coast, a state in Africa, gained its independence on this day in 1960 French is still the offic ...

The Ivory Coast, a state in Africa, gained its independence on this day in 1960 French is still the official language in that country, and its formal name is „République de Côte d’Ivoire“. This is a l ...

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1867: Otto of Greece – the Only Greek King who Was a Roman Catholic

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1867: Otto of Greece – the Only Greek King who Was a Roman Catholic

The former Greek King Otto died in the German city of Bamberg on this day in 1867. He was the first king ...

The former Greek King Otto died in the German city of Bamberg on this day in 1867. He was the first king of Greece in Modern Times. It is interesting to note that he became the King of Greece in 1832, ...

July 26, 2019
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1943: Nobel laureate Karl Landsteiner – Austrian Catholic and the father of transfusion medicine

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1943: Nobel laureate Karl Landsteiner – Austrian Catholic and the father of transfusion medicine

On this day in 1943 Karl Landsteiner, the famous scientist responsible for the classification of blood gr ...

On this day in 1943 Karl Landsteiner, the famous scientist responsible for the classification of blood groups, died. In 1930 Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his a ...

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1661: Portuguese Catholic princess who obtained Bombay and the custom of drinking tea for the British

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1661: Portuguese Catholic princess who obtained Bombay and the custom of drinking tea for the British

On this day, in 1661, the marriage contract on behalf of the British King Charles II and the Portuguese p ...

On this day, in 1661, the marriage contract on behalf of the British King Charles II and the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza was signed. With this contract Britain received the colony of Bom ...

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1465: Thomas Palaiologos Converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism

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1465: Thomas Palaiologos Converted from Orthodoxy to Catholicism

On this day in 1465, Thomas Palaiologos, a pretender to the title of Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, die ...

On this day in 1465, Thomas Palaiologos, a pretender to the title of Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, died in Rome. Thomas was the younger brother of the last emperor in Constantinople - Constantine X ...

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