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2,070 years ago today Julius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family. (en.wikipedia.org)

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100 years ago today the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the League of Nations. (www.un-documents.net)

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175 years ago today Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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67 years ago today Troops With Bayonets Had To Escort Black Teens To School. (patch.com)

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50 years ago today the German Cancer Aid was founded by Mildred Scheel during the term of her husband, Walter Scheel, as federal president of Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)

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1,180 years ago today a Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders. (en.wikipedia.org)

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91 years ago today Ian Dawson Tyson, a Canadian singer-songwriter, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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101 years ago today Fats Navarro, an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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10 years ago today the Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit. (en.wikipedia.org)

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379 years ago today Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath in the English Civil War. (en.wikipedia.org)

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