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1541: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury and Catholic Martyr

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1541: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury and Catholic Martyr

After two and a half years in prison, Bl. Margaret Pole was executed on this day in 1541. Bl. Margaret Po ...

After two and a half years in prison, Bl. Margaret Pole was executed on this day in 1541. Bl. Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was executed at the Tower of London on this day in 1541. Her cousin, ...

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1455: Beginning of the Medieval “Wars of the Roses”

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1455: Beginning of the Medieval “Wars of the Roses”

On this day a long-standing war for the English throne, called the Wars of the Roses, began. The name com ...

On this day a long-standing war for the English throne, called the Wars of the Roses, began. The name comes from the fact that the two warring dynasties that fought for the throne had symbols in the f ...

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1859: Arthur Conan Doyle Was Educated at a Jesuit School in Austria

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1859: Arthur Conan Doyle Was Educated at a Jesuit School in Austria

On this day in 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous character Sherlock Holmes, was born. He wa ...

On this day in 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous character Sherlock Holmes, was born. He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland, to parents of Irish descent. It is interesting that Arthur Con ...

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1744: British Queen Charlotte – Member of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz dynasty

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1744: British Queen Charlotte – Member of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz dynasty

On this day in 1744, Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III (the United States gained independence from ...

On this day in 1744, Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III (the United States gained independence from Great Britain during his reign), was born. She was of German origin, a member of the Mecklenbu ...

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1935: Lawrence of Arabia Dies after Motorcycle Accident

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1935: Lawrence of Arabia Dies after Motorcycle Accident

Famed explorer and soldier TE Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, died on this day after a trag ...

Famed explorer and soldier TE Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, died on this day after a tragic accident. It is not widely known that the hero of the Arab resistance against the Turks was ...

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1649: England Declared a Republic

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1649: England Declared a Republic

On this day in 1649, the Parliament of England declared England to be a Commonwealth. Interestingly, the ...

On this day in 1649, the Parliament of England declared England to be a Commonwealth. Interestingly, the word Commonwealth is actually translation of the Latin phrase “res publica”, from which the wor ...

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1940: Churchill Holds the Famous “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” Speech

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1940: Churchill Holds the Famous “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” Speech

It was the time when the first bombs were falling on Britain and the Third Reich was conducting an invasi ...

It was the time when the first bombs were falling on Britain and the Third Reich was conducting an invasion of the Benelux. British prime minister Winston Churchill held his famous speech on “blood, t ...

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1948: Death of Kathleen Kennedy

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1948: Death of Kathleen Kennedy

This day in 1948 marked the death of Kathleen Kennedy, the sister of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. ...

This day in 1948 marked the death of Kathleen Kennedy, the sister of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She was the fourth child in the family (John was the second child, and but three years older th ...

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